Textile designer and artist Dana Barnes sure knows how to tie a knot. Her latest work, UNSPUN: Tangled and Fused experiments with unspun natural fibers and innovative felting processes. Barnes explores different ways of forming objects using various techniques: knotting, netting, twisting and looping of fibers to create large scale textile art pieces for interior spaces. Inspired by nature, her work references thick crop fields, grazed hills and meadows, gnarled and knobby aged oak trees, and entwined and interlocked Spanish moss. Pictured above is RIGGERS KNOT Twisted Rope Object.
IN KNOTS Fiber Wall
GRAZED Amorphous Braided Rug and KNOLL Braided Pouf
TANGLED Ceiling Installation
LANYARD Twisted Rope Bolster Object
TUBE Sculptural Object
HAYBALE Sculptural Object
TIRE Sculptural Object
BEAUFORD Needlepoint Vessel
SHORN Knotted Floor Cozy
LOOPED Square Motif
Her work will be on display at Ralph Pucci in New York through the end of the year.

2 Comments
Hans Monasso on 01.16.2013 at 14:26 PM
displayed as art but useful as everyday furniture (some things) – I like the GRAZED Amorphous Braided Rug very very much!
Ina on 04.05.2014 at 20:24 PM
I NEED that GRAZED Amorphous Braided Rug in my home! Absolutely amazing! Any ideas on how I can make something like that myself? :)
Great ideas – inspiring!
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