CLOTH TONE collaborates with designers, retailers, artists, writers and anyone else with a passion for handwoven textiles and cloth culture. Our collaborations have led to exhibitions, custom interior textiles, pop-up shops, private commissions, custom aromatherapy oils and an ever growing community of slow cloth supporters!
Small, curated selections of our handwoven textiles are available at Ad Hoc / Penticton, the Polygon Gallery Shop / Vancouver, or by private commission.
Contact us if you’re interested in collaborating or would like to receive invitations to our upcoming events! We’d love to hear from you,
xo Cloth Tone
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
Fall 2019
Printed Matter w/ Moniker Press
Cloth Tone Postcard Risoprint printed by Moniker Press, Vancouver, 2019
Cloth Tone Risoprint with Summer Cloth, 2019
ADHOC Interior Textiles
Jan-May 2019
We’re so proud of the one-of-a kind, custom, handwoven textiles we designed and wove for Virginia Bray, owner of ADHOC in Penticton, B.C. The series of eight curtain panels function both as a decorative, textured backdrop and as a series of functional change room curtains. Woven using natural undyed, unbleached linen, hemp, cotton and wool intermixed with details of plant dyed wool (marigold, goldenrod and onion skins) spun by Larissa’s grandmother, Ilse Beringer, the panels offer privacy and translucency of light simultaneously. Throughout the store you’ll find chunky cotton/linen chair covers and our classic pillows slips on down filled cushions. The combination of white walls, eclectic lighting, handmade plywood shelving and independent fashion labels create the perfect back drop for Cloth Tone’s unique aesthetic to shine.
ADHOC Dressing Room Panels and Pillow Slips designed and handwoven by CLOTH TONE using raw linen, hemp, cotton, wool 2019
Detail: ADHOC Dressing Room Panels, Handwoven linen, hemp, cotton and wool.
Ad Hoc “Blanket in Gold” designed and handwoven by CLOTH TONE using raw linen, organic cotton and plant-dyed wool, 2019
ADHOC ‘Man Chair Covers” designed and handwoven by CLOTH TONE using raw linen and mop cotton, 2019
Interior Textiles
2018-2019 ongoing
Working collaboratively with friends, family, artists, and designers - Cloth Tone regularly designs custom, one-of-a-kind textiles to play with your personality and enrich your space.
Striped cotton blankets in organic cotton, (home of visual artist, Alexis Beringer, Victoria, BC), 2019
“Pillow Slip in Pink”, 2019
Cloth Tone Pop-up at The Aviary
September 2018
Cloth Tone hosted a pop-up sample sale in Vancouver with a sampling of our handwoven rugs, shawls, blankets, floor cushions, ties, rag rugs and power ponchos. All textiles were designed and handwoven using natural materials including linen, organic cotton, Western Canadian wool, raw silk and hands-on, plant dyed yarns from our archive collection.
OSMICS for CLOTH TONE
Ochre Teal is a personalized scent, designed by Jen Weih of Osmics, that captures the aromatic flora and summer breeze along Okanagan Lake. The subtle blend of cedar, balsam, bergamot and sage is a perfect companion for the body and home- not only does it purify the air and awaken your senses - it keeps the moths away as well! Please visit our shop for our signature scent (available as a spray or essential oil blend).
