Wall Knot: All is Knot Lost
Wall Knot: Do Knot Ask
Wall Knot: Frayed Knot
Wall Knot: Guess Knot
Wall Knot: Knit Knot Born Yesterday
Wall Knot: Knit Knot Crochet
Wall Knot: Knot Necessarily
Knit Knot for Me
Wall Knot: Knot Quite the Thing
SOLD
Wall Knot: Knit Knot in the Biblical Sense
Wall Knot: Knot Ready For Prime Time
Wall Knot: Knot a Leg to Stand On
Wall Knot: Knot Safe For Work
Wall Knot: Knot a Snowball's Chance
Wall Knot: Knot Surprised
SOLD
Wall Knot: Knot if I Can Help It
Wall Knot: Knot Even Go There
SOLD
Wall Knot: Knot That There's Anything Wrong With That
Wall Knot: Knot the Sharpest Tool
Wall Knot: Knot Worth the Trouble
Wall Knot: Nothing if Knot Something
Wall Knot: Believe It or Knot
Wall Knot: Fret Knot
Wall Knot: Have Knot
Wall Knot: It's Knit Knot You
Wall Knot: Knit Knot As I Do
Wall Knot: Knit Knot Born Yesterday
Wall Knot: Knot Just Yet
SOLD
Wall Knot: Knot Being Funny
Wall Knot: Knot Give Two Hoots
Wall Knot: Knot if I See You First
Wall Knot: Knot Made in the Shade
SOLD
"Queen of the Knit"
Carol Milne wearing her Glass, ribbon & LED costume
"Queen of the Knit" video
This knitted glass costume, created by artist Carol Milne, was made to resemble entrelac knitting. It was made specially for the Glass Art Society "Glass Fashion show" (the brain child of Laura Donefer) in Corning, New York on June 11, 2016. Made of cast Gaffer Glass. The model is Kait Rhoads.
First attempt at Entrelac glass
This was round one in entrelac knitting. When I decided I would attach the pieces with zip ties, I redesigned my prototype, so the zip ties would be "invisible" - behind the knitting, and so the pieces were slightly lighter and smaller.
Cutting foam core pattern pieces
Foam core was used to make a mock-up pattern. It's inflexible, like glass, but not fragile.
Foam core strips
Neckpiece and wasteband mock-up
Entrelac pendants
Pouring wax bases
A silicone mold was used for the base, apple core, shape to ensure the pieces were identical and would all fit together.
Wax entrelac
Hand knitted wax
Each entrelac piece is knitted individually in wax
Soldering and shaping
Each piece is shaped over a silicone form. And the stitches are all soldered with molten wax to keep them in place.
Entrelac in wax
The knit piece is soldered onto the apple core shaped base
Soldering wax
Soldering wax
The knitted piece needs to be soldered onto the frame on all sides.
Spruing
Attaching a sprue (exit point for wax and entry point for glass) onto the entrelac form.
Attached to a reservoir
Two on a reservoir
Multiple wax entrelac pieces
A flock of entrelac waxes set up three per reservoir - before making molds around the pieces.
Molds in kiln
Multiple entrelac molds in the kiln, with glass sitting in pots above them, waiting to be melted in.
Entrelac pieces in molds
The glass has melted into the molds.
Entrelac glass emerges
Breaking away the mold material to reveal the entrelac glass pieces inside.
Preliminary neckpiece
February 2016
LED lighting tests
Playing with color settings on the LED arduino controller
Laura Donefer's Crazy Corning Glass Fashion Show
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Proposal drawing
Conquistadors
The inspiration for "Grow Lights"
The Making of "Grow Lights"
My Conquistadors are exotic, invasive species of knitted glass and raku-fired clay. They were inspired by observing the twisting and turning growth of sprouts and seedlings. They, in turn, became inspiration for my installation proposal for Bellwether 2012, Grow Lights, which is now on display next to the Bellevue Arts Museum on Bellevue Way, in Bellevue, Washington.
Grow Lights in Carol Milne Studio 2012
Moving and Installing "Grow Lights" at Bellwether 2012
Moving and installing Carol Milnes "Grow Lights" at Bellwether 2012
Music by David Templeton from "THE CROSSING"
backyard_lights
The night time view in my back yard. "Grow Lights" (originally displayed in Bellwether 2012, Bellevue, WA 2012).
Music by David Templeton: Under The Willow Tree
Installation shot
Gallery IMA Feb/March 2008
Installation shot
Gallery IMA Feb/March 2008
Installation Shot
Gallery IMA Feb/March 2008
Installation Shot
Gallery IMA Feb/March 2008
In the Name of Love - grouping
Operation Gimlet Crusader
U.S. Military Operation. 2004
Kirkuk Counterinsurgency, Iraq
kiln cast lead crystal in two parts
8 x 3.5 x 3.5 inches
2008
mini pineapple style
Available
Operation Warrior
US Military Operation. March 2004. Security and Counterinsurgency. Iraq.
hot cast glass base, kiln cast glass bow, cast aluminum & pin
7.5 x 5 x 5 inches
2007
Round style
Available
Operation Trailblazer
U.S. Military Operation. 2004
Baquobah security, Iraq
hot cast glass base, kiln cast lead crystal bow, cast aluminum & pin
11.5 x 5 x 5 inches
2008
Canister style
Available
Operation Spring Cleanup
US Military Operation. May 2004. Counterinsurgency. Baqouba, Iraq
Hot cast glass base, kiln cast glass bow, cast aluminum & pin
10 x 6 x 6 inches
Round pineapple style
Available
Operation Duke Fortitude
U.S. Military Operation. 2004
Fallujah Counterinsurgency, Iraq.
hot cast glass base, kiln cast glass bow, cast aluminum & pin
10 x 6 x 6 inches
2007
Oval pineapple style
Available
Operation Barnstormer
U.S. Military Operation. May 2006. Humanitarian mission to protect key staple crops from insect damage in several Iraqi provinces.
hot cast glass base, kiln cast bow, cast aluminum & pin
14 x 10 x 7 in
2008
XL pineapple style
Available
Garden Tile line drawing
Garden Tile Installation
Seattle Design Center 9/2012 - 5/2013
Approx 7 feet high x 9 feet wide
Garden Tile Installation
Seattle Design Center 10/2011-10/2012
Approx 6 feet high x 9 feet wide
Garden Tile Installation
Seattle Design Center 2/2014 - 4/2015
Garden Tile #8
17 x 18 x 2 inches
Garden Tile #17
17 x 18 x 2 inches
Garden Tile #19
17 x 18 x 2 inches
Garden Tile #20
17 x 18 x 2 inches
Garden Tile #21
17 x 18 x 2 inches
Garden Tile #22
17 x 18 x 2 inches
Garden Tile #23
17 x 18 x 2 inches
Garden Tile #24
17 x 18 x 2 inches
Garden Tile #25
17 x 18 x 2 inches
Knotty Wall
There are many ways to hold things together.
To Knit: interlock loops to create a cohesive fabric.
To Knot: unite two ends by tying them together.
And sometimes, as a bulwark against the insanity of a divided world, we need both.
To knit knot.
Viper
Project accepted for BAM! Glasstastic: the Bellevue Arts Museum Biennial 2018
On display at the Bellevue Arts Museum BAM!Glasstastic November 9, 2018 - April 14, 2019
This past year in America has been “the year of the snake”: a crazy year of polar swings, from negative to positive and back again. What better to represent it than a snake? Historically, the meaning of a snake swings from the negatives of venomous, vengeful, and vindictive to the positives of fertility, rebirth and healing. This seems apt. My proposal is to build Viper. It is snakelike in appearance, but is meant to represent the aftermath: the snakeskin left behind. As a snake sheds its skin and is transformed, Viper is the hope for transformation and purification in the year ahead.
Supported in part by a generous donation from Gaffer Glass USA
Glass Art Society's Glass Fashion Show 2016
I was invited to create a Glass outfit for the Glass Art Society's annual conference in Corning, NY. The Glass Fashion show took place on June 11, 2016. These are some photos of the design development and work in progress.
Grow Lights
For Bellevue's Biennial sculpture show, Bellwether 2012, I proposed creating five - eight foot tall concrete sculptures covered with knitted LED rope light. They were inspired by my knitted glass "Conquistadors".
When the LED rope light proved to be too stiff to knit, I knitted colored rope skins over the concrete and wove in LED lights.
In the Name of Love
How many war stories and bomb statistics can you listen to before it starts to affect your work?
Many people, of course, think the war in Iraq produced positive results: we got rid of a dictator, brought freedom to the people, stopped insurgents. But along with the good came loads of bad: tens of thousands of civilians dead, cities demolished and homes destroyed, lives left in tatters. This started me thinking about bombs as gifts.
A gift has a giver and a receiver. It's usually given with good intentions, and received with joy. But are good intentions enough? When it's no longer welcome, is it still a gift?
This series of work is titled “In the Name of Love”. The gifts are hot cast grenades with bullet-shaped interiors. Kiln cast bows adorn the grenades. The bows are held in place with removable pins.
On the surface the grenades look like fancy gift boxes, colorful, beautiful, a delight to hold. But a closer look reveals the ominous undercurrents, the danger within.
Each piece is named (however improbable the name may sound) after an actual U.S military operation in Iraq. For example, “Operation Glory Light,” “Operation Spring Cleanup”, “Operation Rapier Thrust.”
It's heavy work(literally and figuratively) with a bow on top for levity.
Tessellating Garden Tiles
Tesselations are designs which repeat and connect with themselves to make larger designs. M.C. Escher was a master of this art form, but other examples exist. When I was visiting Barcelona, Spain, I came upon an hexagonal tile sidewalk with a repeating pattern (designed by Antonio Gaudi) which inspired me to make my own design in glass.
My design is composed of individual tiles I call “Garden Tiles”. Each Garden Tile is composed of seven hexagonal tiles. The diagram illustrates the line drawing of a single hexagon. The hexagon is composed of 3 plant inspired patterns. The first one is a spidery design in a single triangle which is mirrored along a central axis. The second is a trumpet like design in a single triangle which is rotated around a corner point. And the third is a spiral design composed over two triangles in which the spiral connects up at a series of points equidistant from the corner along two sides.