World of Threads Festival
Festival Artwork Greatest Hits
Get to know the World of Threads Festival through a curated selection of some of the most memorable and noteworthy gallery shows and artworks from Festival in 2018 to 2007. This includes highlights from all our major exhibitions, solo shows and installations. Over the decade we have exhibited thousands of artworks by hundreds of artists from around the world. Click the buttons to see the full exhibitions and all artworks and artists.
Photography by Gareth Bate
Installation view: Flow Exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Installation view: Flow Exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Tina Struthers, Untamed, Flow exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Tina Struthers, Untamed, detail, Flow exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Ragnhild Monsen, Defragmentation White and Black, Flow exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Installation view: Flow exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Helena Schaffer, Black Crow Blues, Flow exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Hazel Bruce, Space Pattern Place 2, Flow exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Mary-Anne Wensley, Nets, Flow exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Elise Vazelakis, Repetitive Stillness, Flow exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Suzy Martins, Waking Dream, Tea Bag Dress, Flow exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Synchronistic Curating
Something that's different about World of Threads Festival is that we let the art guide us. Festival curators Gareth Bate and Dawne Rudman don't have predetermined curatorial ideas or impose our concepts on the artists. Each new festival is a blank slate. Shows develop entirely out of the submissions we receive.
To find our main exhibitions we look for connections and common themes between thousands of artworks. These works were made by hundreds of artists from around the world. Often artists seem to be on the same wavelength during a particular period. Over time, through many hours of sorting through artworks, the exhibition themes just emerge and become clear to us. This method has been very successful and resulted in compelling and unique exhibitions.
Installation view: Quiet Zone Exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Installation view: Quiet Zone Exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Megan Bostic, Stale Hope too Much was Never Enough, Quiet Zone exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Catherine Dormor, Shimmer, Quiet Zone exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Maggie Tchir and Kathleen Hill, Earth Nest, Quiet Zone exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Saidhbhin Gibson, Woven Bars Underbelly, Quiet Zone exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Rochelle Rubinstein, House of Learning, Quiet Zone exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Maggie Tchir and Kathleen Hill, Earth Nest, detail, Quiet Zone exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Xia Gao, Mountains and Streams Secular and Pecuniary, Quiet Zone exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Installation view: Lisa DeQuinzio, Wool Silk and Thread, and Good Morning Midnight, Quiet Zone exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Yael Brotman, Teardrop, Quiet Zone exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
Installation view: Amorphous exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Installation view: Amorphous exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Deborah Kruger, Devotional, Amorphous exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Deborah Kruger, Devotional, detail, Amorphous exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Gretchen Jankowski, Midwest, Amorphous exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Installation view: Amorphous exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Sonja Czekalski, Amorphous exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Melanie Siegel, Burning Earth, Amorphous exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Melanie Siegel, Burning Earth, detail, Amorphous exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Gretchen Jankowski, California Dreaming, Amorphous exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Hannah Rothschild, Whispers of Faraway Places, Amorphous exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Elaine Whittaker, Between Us, Amorphous exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Kate Sellar, Woven Fortress series, Amorphous exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Darilyn Bennett, Cascade, Amorphous exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Darilyn Bennett, Cascade, detail, Amorphous exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
Installation view: The Red and the Black exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Christine Mauersberger, Timelines, The Red and the Black exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Mary Grisey, Cradling in Ruins, The Red and the Black exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Xiaojing Yan, Wave 4, The Red and the Black exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Miriam Medrez, untitled, The Red and the Black exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Denise Lithgow, Tracks, Pebbles, Rocks, The Red and the Black exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Installation view: The Red and the Black exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Snapped dress and headdress, Leisa Rich, The Red and the Black exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Once it was, Myrna Tatar, The Red and the Black exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Red Wall, Colette Boulet, The Red and the Black exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Emma Nishimura, Shifting Views, The Red and the Black exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Communication Breakdown, detail, Ana Laura Diosdado, The Red and the Black exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
Installation view: Cosmic Geometry exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Installation view: Cosmic Geometry exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Robert Davidovitz, Wave 9, Cosmic Geometry exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Frances Solar, Vessels, Cosmic Geometry exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Kristina Daukintyte Aas, Engine Pattern, Cosmic Geometry exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Installation view: Heather Macali, Cosmic Geometry exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Gwen Lowery, Corona II, Cosmic Geometry exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Neha Puri Dhir, Intersect, detail, Cosmic Geometry exhibition, World of Threads Festival
Heather Macali, Optimus, Cosmic Geometry exhibition, World of Threads Festival
Elaine Whittaker, Tethered, Cosmic Geometry exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Joyce Watkins King, Nine Tales, Cosmic Geometry exhibition, World of Threads Festival
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
Installation view: artwork in the Display Area Gallery, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Installation view: artwork in the Display Area Gallery, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Bonnie J Smith, Pacific Ocean, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Brigitte Amarger, Etoffe de la Peau, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Theda Sandiford, Blackity Black Blanket, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
Sun Young Kang, In Between Presence and Absence exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Sun Young Kang, In Between Presence and Absence exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
Judith E Martin, Time, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Boisali Biswas, Diaphanous Illusions, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Elaine Whittaker and Kelley Aitken, Filamentos, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Elaine Whittaker and Kelley Aitken, Filamentos, detail, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Judy Major-Girardin, Flow, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Barbara Cook, Cycles of Life, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Lorna Livey, Safety in Numbers, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Barbara Cook, Cycles of Life, detail, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Lorna Livey, Safety in Numbers, detail, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
Penelope Stewart, Cleave a Path in the Wilderness, Late in the Season exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Penelope Stewart, Cleave a Path in the Wilderness, detail, Late in the Season exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Installation view: Eszter Bornmisza, L to R: At Home in the City, No Home in the City, Constructive Deconstruction, City Scape, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Eszter Bornemisz, Constructive Deconstruction, detail, World of Threads Festival 2016. Organza, acryl paint, newspaper, technique: painted, hot-cut, machine sewn.
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
Installation view: Momento mori exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Camilla Geary-Martin, Shrouds, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Nicole Collins, Cohobate, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Nicole Collins, Cohobate, detail, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Megan Bostic, The First Year of Grief, Momento mori exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Wendy O'Brien, Sentinel, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Wendy O'Brien, Guardian 2, Momento mori exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Lilly Otasevic, Spring, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Lisa Brunetta, The Fisher, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Robert Davidovitz Vanitas, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Robert Davidovitz Vanitas, detail, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
Installation view: De rerum natura (On The Nature of Things) Exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Emily Jan, Durer's Rhinoceros, De rerum natura exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Jillian MacLachlan, The Anatomical Self, De rerum natura exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Ixchel Suarez, Scars from Nature, De rerum natura exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Oh No Coco, Libby Hague,
De rerum natura, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Jodi Colella, Receptor, What Looks Like and Elephant, and Marrow, De rerum natura exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Emily Jan, Dikdik Ghost Dikdik, De rerum natura exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Memories of a Birch Tree, Ixchel Suarez, De rerum natura, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Memories of a Birch Tree, detail, Ixchel Suarez, De rerum natura, World of Threads Festival 2012
Expanded Lace, Lizz Aston, De rerum natura, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Postcards from the Scrapyard, Joanne Young, De rerum natura, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
Robin Wiltse, Fear Fate and the Twelth Labour of Hercules, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Robin Wiltse, Fear Fate and the Twelth Labour of Hercules, detail, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Installation view: Current Conditions series, BR Goldstein, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Installation view: Roxanna Kantarjian, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Loretta Faveri, Captured Moments blue, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Suzanna Paquette, Fracture, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Roxanna Kantarjian, Mysterious Veil I, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Eszter Bornemisza, Here and Nowhere, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
C. Pazia Mannella, Glitters is Gold Fencing, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Margaret Glew, Untitled, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Svetlana Turov, Sundown Regatta I, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2023-24.
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
Lorraine Roy: Call of the Heart, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2018. Cotton and synthetic fabrics, cotton batting. Techniques: machine raw edge machine, machine embroidery and quilting, small amount of acrylic paint.
Sarabeth Trivino: Constellation I, detail, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Paulette Sauve, Lake Dwellers Sacred Cove and Lieu Sacre, Solo Shows, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Paula Kovarik, Chaos Ensues, Solo Shows, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Judy Martin, My Open Heart, Solo Shows, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Anne Kelly, Corali, Solo Shows, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Linda Kollofski, Pink Hibiscus, Solo Shows, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
Installation view: Gerri Spilka, Solo Shows, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Sung Ja Kim Chisholm, Pages from Life's Journey Series 3, Solo Shows, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Carol Eckert, Palampore for a New Century, Solo Shows, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Catherine Heard, Indigo, Solo Shows, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Susan Hotchkis, Rust Rose, Solo Shows, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
Marianne Kyryluk, Within Our Grasp, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Marianne Kyryluk, Within Our Grasp, detail, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Line Dufour, Fate, Destiny and Self Determination, detail, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Line Dufour, Fate, Destiny and Self Determination, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Kelly Thompson, Fluid Data, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Kelly Thompson, Fluid Data, detail, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Olivia Tripp Morrow, Stretch, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Jane Merks, Life Circles, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
Maggie Smith, Towards the End 3, detail, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Maggie Smith, Towards the End 3, detail, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Louise Lemieux Berube, 74 Directions, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Louise Lemieux Berube, Rodin and Claude, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Jeanne Beck, Fluttering Pages from a Happy Life, Solo Shows, the World of Threads ,Festival 2014.
Lindy Fyfe, Interweave 30 - blue, red, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Dorothy McGuinness, Octahedron and Tetrahedron, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Dorothy McGuinness, Ixosahedron, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Gwen Lowery, Shaw Storm, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Louise Lemieux Berube, Rodin and Claude, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Christina Massey, Interwoven 5, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Leslie Pearson, Diary of my Mind, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2014.
George-Ann Bowers, Over the Edge, Solo Shows Cat Walk, World of Threads Festival 2014.
installation view: Barbara Schneider, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
Olena Chornohuz. Wind, Quiet Zone II, World of Threads Festival 2016. Mixed thread including: jute, metallic threads, silk, synthetic and wool, Technique: invented by the artist - threads wound up around cardboard and/or polyurethane foam.
Olena Chornohuz, Wind, detail, Quiet Zone II, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Maria Amalia Wood, Hojas del Desierto, Quiet Zone II, World of Threads Festival 2016. Linen, Abaca, Cotton, Flax, Technique: Handmade paper, pulp painting.
Installation view: Leisa Rich, Chrysalis Unknown, Quiet Zone II, World of Threads Festival 2016. Material: Fosshape, a soft fabric material comprised of low melt poly that hardens with the application of heat, painted and dyed, thread, paint.
Tammy Ratcliff, For Dreams of Hanging Gardens, Quiet Zone II, World of Threads Festival 2016. Woven and hand stitched etchings on fine handmade Japanese papers, framed.
Susan Avishai, One Place to Hide a Dark Heart, Quiet Zone II, World of Threads Festival 2016. Deconstructed men’s shirt backs, polymer medium.
Susan Middleton, After the Rain, Quiet Zone II, World of Threads Festival 2016. Cotton warp, natural hand dyed wool and silk, technique: woven tapestry, (high warp).
Shoko Fukuda, Reversal of the Spiral, Quiet Zone II, World of Threads Festival 2016. Medium: sisal, rattan, Technique: Coiling.
Marzena Ziejka, Declaration of Independence, detail, Quiet Zone II, World of Threads Festival 2016.
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
Installation view: Liz Pead, Louis Riel - The Church at Batoche, detail, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Liz Pead, Louis Riel - The Church at Batoche, detail, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Karen Goetzinger, A State of Play, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Karen Goetzinger, A State of Play, detail, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Installation view: James Arendt, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2014.
James Arendt, Ian, detail, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Installation view: James Arendt, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2014.
James Arendt, Ian, detail, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
THREADSpace, Threading the 3rd. Dimension, installation view.
Catherine Dormor, Becoming, THREADSpace exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Pro Matria: Burka, 2010
Materials: Cotton fabric, yarn and thread.
Technique: Digital print on fabric, computerized machine embroidery and hand knitting.
Marie Bergstedt, French Connection, THREADSpace exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Judy Michelle Young, Box 1, THREADSpace exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
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One Day, 2010, Materials: Repurposed plastic sleeves from delivered newspapers. Technique: Handspun, crochet.
Camilla Geary-Martin, String Theory and the Unravelling of the Universe, THREADSpace exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2012.
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
Judy Martin, Not to Know but to Go On, detail, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Artist: Judy Martin, Not to Know but to Go On, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Artist: Melanie Siegel, Winter, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Artist: Jacqueline Treloar, Corona Magna Puer, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2014.
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
Cosmos Interior, 2011, 122 H x 217 W x 1.5 cm, Alpaca wool, cotton, mixed fibers. Technique: Hand-woven Tapestry.
Time Doesn’t Go Anywhere, It Only Adds Up, 2011, 22 H x 49 W x Varied D Ft), Assorted Paint Swatches, Clear Vinyl, Hot Glue, Velcro
Technique: Feather Cloth.
Armonia en el hogar, 2011, 120 H x 120 W x 1 cm, Alpaca wool, cotton, mixed fibers. Technique: Hand-woven Tapestry.
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
Eszter Bornemisza: You are Here, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2018. Dyed, overprinted, ripped newspaper, threads, carbon sticks, machine sewn.
Hana Rotchild, Stav, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2018. Installation work made up of individual cocoons.
Paulette Sauve, Lake Dwellers Sacred Cove and Lieu Sacre, Solo Shows, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Installation view: Sarah Waters, Solo Shows World of Threads Festival 2018.
Cas Holmes, Trees, Installations, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Cas Holmes, Trees, detail, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
Festival 2018
Festival Exhibitions
Ellen Ramsey, Satori, Botanical Realm exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Installation view: Botanical Realm exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Rosemary Pucholt, English Garden, Botanical Realm exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Installation view: Botanical Realm exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Leisa Rich, In Search of Eden, Botanical Realm exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Sandra Dammizio, Reimagined, Botanical Realm exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2018.
Susan Moran, Incantation, Botanical Realm exhibition, World of Threads Festival 2018.
