Kristin Ferrell

woven in stone – frozen in time

The exhibition features jacquard-woven pieces from a fashion collection inspired by the blend of reality and memory. Ferrell’s collection experiments with new ways of creating garments, combining techniques to achieve unique and multidimensional pieces. The woven elements of the collection explore how combining draping with weaving can lead to new and exciting ways to create garments. Each piece reflects a balance of creativity and practicality, telling a story through materials, shapes, and colour, all inspired by the designer’s personal memories and experiences (both real and fake).

Exploring the space between memory and imagination, Woven in Stone – Frozen in Time is a woven textile and fashion collection inspired by folklore, childhood memories, and sculptural drapery. Kristin Ferrell’s MA thesis project originates from a story Ferrell’s father once told her about a troll’s flute stone — a personal myth that became memory, anchoring her long-standing fascination with the blurred lines between the real and the imagined.

At the heart of the collection is a dialogue between garment and fabric, each developed simultaneously, where the fabric becomes the memory and the garment becomes the reality — together, they tell a story.

This interplay is realised through the merging of draping and woven textile development. Draping was used not only to form the shapes of the final garments but also to design and sculpt the textile prototypes themselves — guiding decisions on texture, weight, and structure. 

– The draping informed the placements of different woven structures, and the woven structures influenced the way the fabric could be draped.

Drawing inspiration from mountains back home in Iceland and marble sculptures seen at the Louvre, the collection captures moments of transformation and stasis.

– I was mesmerised by how stone could appear so incredibly lightweight — it looks impossible, yet natural at the same time.

Through the intertwined processes of draping and weaving, the collection became a conversation between movement and structure. 

– This collection is about freezing movement, like trolls caught in the sunlight — moments solidified in time,” she says.