CLOTH TONE for CLAYOQUOT WILDERNESS LODGE : SERIES II

Throughout the fall/winter of 2021, Cloth Tone was immersed in the production of a new series of custom, handwoven cushions in organic linen and cotton for the Clayoquot Wilderness Lodge on Vancouver Island. This new series, ‘Tabis’ and ‘Parallèlle’ in an olive and natural join Cloth Tone’s previous series of wool cushions created for the redesign in 2020. This project was an opportunity for Cloth Tone to mentor two new weavers from the local community in anticipation of similar projects to come! Thank you so much to Forest @tomatodailyhalfacre and Janet @janetsteinjewelry for their contributions to the textile studio this winter. The work looks amazing and is definitely the largest commission we’ve completed to date!

xo Larissa

TOQUE CRAFT FAIR

Cloth Tone at Western Front’s annual fundraiser and community event, Toque Craft Fair!

CLOTH TONE for CLAYOQUOT WILDERNESS LODGE : SERIES I

CLOTH TONE was excited and honoured to be invited to design and weave a series of interior cushions for the Clayoquot Wilderness Lodge redesign on Vancouver Island. Using wool sourced from small fibre farms on Vancouver Island, Cloth Tone created a series of cushions inspired by the local west coast landscape. All of the work was woven and sewn by Lindsay, our assistant Amy and myself in our lakeside and ranch studios throughout the winter and spring of 2021.

Now, already late into 2021, I am completing a second commission for a new series of interior textiles in cotton and organic linen to launch in April 2022.

Image: Clayoquot Wilderness Lodge, 2021

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CLOTH TONE at the Toque Craft Fair Dec 1-6

TOQUE CRAFT FAIR (ONLINE) - DEC 1-6 Presented by Western Front

VISIT THE SALE

SLOW CLOTH FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING

CLOTH TONE is excited to be participating in the annual TOQUE CRAFT FAIR for our third year in a row!

We are weaving up several small series of cloth in cotton, merino, linen and wool to satisfy all of your textile cravings! All of our cloth is designed and woven in our Okanagan-based studios!

SLOW CLOTH FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING.

CLOTH TONE will be donating 20% of all sales to support Western Front’s artistic programs.

CLOTH TONE at the Franklin Street Studio Sale

Join us for our most favourite sale of the year at the Franklin Street Studio.

Toque: Western Front's Annual Fundraiser & Craft Fair

CLOTH CULTURE Exhibition

CLOTH CULTURE

Oct 3 - Nov 17, 2019

CLOTH CULTURE
Oct 3 - Nov 17, 2019

Cloth Tone, in collaboration with the Lake Country Art Gallery, has curated an exhibition opening Oct 3! The exhibition, Cloth Culture, brings together six contemporary artists to explore the tacit emotional and experiential resonance achieved through the active labor of material production and bodily awareness. Works by Cloth Tone (Larissa Beringer and Lindsay Lorraine), Beth Howe, Zoe Kreye, Tiziana La Melia and Holly Ward manipulate and engage with varying textile materials and time-intensive (slow) processes to produce a series of propositional works that value an underlying investment in labor, mobility, and self-engagement. Revealing a sensitivity to the inherit value of bodily experience, tactility and form - a certain vibrancy calls attention to these artists’ relationship to our basic human needs for tactile experience, meditative movement, nature and local economies of scale. In turn, Cloth Culture challenges our relationship to cloth, craft and consumption.

POLYGON GALLERY SHOP

KODACHROME SERIES

limited edition raw linen/cotton hand towels now available at the Polygon Gallery Shop in Vancouver!

Pulling inspiration from the shops mandate to reference the photographic sphere, this work reference a Kodachrome theme that was developed specifically for the Polygon. Using a blue-green & red-orange pallet as a starting point, bright weft yarn is woven between the negative spaces of linen muting vibrancy yet blending with the linen's sheen to become radiant. Included with the work is a custom designed bookmark which doubles as a price tag printed using a risograph printer via Moniker Press.

AD HOC COLLABORATION

It’s been so much fun working with AD HOC, especially when we’ve got to model some of our favourite designers with CLOTH TONE textiles. AD HOC represents the work of independent women designers and the collection is amazing. We particularly love Atelier Delphine, Ilana Kohn, Micaela Greg, Priory and Rachel Comey! Photos courtesy of Stephanie Kedda at AD HOC.

Cloth Tone Weekend

Together, Larissa Beringer and Lindsay Lorraine have been designing and weaving as a partnership since 2018- exploring what it means to make slow cloth in a sustainable and embodied way - broadly exploring themes related to the body, labor, environment and materiality. In July 2019, Cloth Tone invited four artists to join them in the Okanagan for a weekend of foraging, natural dyeing, cooking, swimming and skill sharing on themes across their individual practices. The Cloth Tone Weekend nurtured new relationships and a feeling of wholeness through the simple act of slowing down in an open, creative space. There was an acknowledgment for the necessity of human connection in creating a sustainable future. So, with a commitment to engaging in curatorial projects that gather artists together under themes related to contemporary textiles, sustainability, the body and our well-being - the exhibition Cloth Culture took shape. If we turn our attention to cloth as a means for living sustainably into the future what are the possible outcomes? 

Moniker Press

Printed Matter w/ Moniker Press

Risoprint postcards and bookmarks printed by Moniker Press for Cloth Tone, Vancouver

SUMMER CLOTH and CERULEAN RUG SERIES in stock!

Shop for our Cotton and Linen Summer Cloth in store only at ADHOC Penticton!

100 % Western Canadian Wool and raw linen Cerulean Rug Series available at ADHOC Penticton!

Shout Out!

Thank you Ad Hoc for the shout out in the Globe & Mail. We love this uniquely curated, independent clothing design and homewares store in Penticton, British Columbia. We have a few select items in stock here!