With the degree work project Oriori- Folding Woven Textile, MA graduate Emilie Palle Holm provides a method to generate jacquard woven three-dimensional surface structures and self-supporting textile forms, by utilizing origami structures as a fundamental construction principle. The collection showcases a series of dynamic, self-supporting, and fully-woven constructions in which a variety of contrasting form components provide dynamic visual transformation activated by either movement around the forms or manipulation of the forms themselves. Each piece is created from a rectangular two-dimensional woven textile which is transformed into a three-dimensional form by folding the textile following the predetermined structural folding lines embedded in the construction of warp and weft threads.

By suggesting a new approach to the embedment of form-transformative mechanisms
in woven textiles, ORIORI contributes to the field of three-dimensional weaving, while utilizing the loom as a dynamic forming tool.

The word origami derives from the Japanese words ori [to fold] and kami [paper]. Ori additionally describes a woven cloth.

Read more about Emilie's work on Arts Thread.

Photo: Emilie Palle Holm