Thread by thread

There is something magical about weaving. It starts with long threads, the warp and the weft. You have an idea in your head and choose colors and materials. When you have finished weaving, you have dust on your hands. But you also have a tapestry to decorate your home with.

Joke Warner studied to be a teacher in Utrecht. At that time, the curriculum also included “useful handicrafts” (knitting, crocheting, decorating fabrics, mending and sewing). Textile working methods and techniques have always fascinated Joke, but when her mother-in-law gave her a loom, weaving became her passion. She is particularly fascinated by designing and weaving tapestries of all kinds. Sometimes she works with very fine yarns, other times she makes a rug with knobs made of thick wool. With rags and even strips of paper, works of art are created under her hands. Once the warp threads are in place, you can braid anything you want into them, because weaving is actually nothing more than braiding.

Joke had a stressful job in special education in Aalten. In her free time, she could/can relax wonderfully when she works on creative ideas at the loom. Sometimes she attaches an original -size design behind the warp threads and ‘fills in’ the coloured areas. Sometimes the material itself is inspiring her and the work grows under her hands, other times a drawing scribbled during a meeting is becoming the source of her inspiration.

Joke enjoys exhibiting her work and presenting it to a wide-range audience. With her exhibitions, she wants to inspire others to start working with threads. This is possible even on a simple loom.

Joke has already exhibited in the Netherlands in Aalten, Winterswijk and Vierakker, as well as in Weimar, Germany.