TC2 LoomLab in Otepoti/Dunedin

In my film you can see me weaving a unicorn within a tree of life motif from Northern Germany*. My TC2-loom could theoretically weave fabrics like this in a width of 70 cm, but I need to buy two more “MODULES” to realise this. Without getting too technical you could compare this to needing to get a set of specialist brushes for my style of painting or to get a larger canvas.
 

When I arrived in Dunedin 20 years ago, I was a Jacquard weaver - a weaver of images. Moving to New Zealand, I lost access to this technique.
 

Weaving is the crossing of threads and one of the oldest textile techniques of our human heritage. Historically weaving images has been a very timely and complicated art. Its mechanisation 200 years ago by Joseph Marie Jacquard used punch cards and therefor binary code - thread down - zero - thread up -one and lead historically to the invention of the computer.
 

30 years ago, the development of the TC2 Loom, the most modern digital hand loom in the world, was started by Norwegian Vibeke Vestby. Her invention superseded the Jacquard machine. After experimenting a year or so with this new to me tool, I now know what I need for my setup. I am asking you to help me bring this art form at its finest to the South Island and to establish the TC2LoomLab in the coolest small city in the South.
 

I would be very thankful for any support, huge or small. Thank you so much!
 

*By the way - The unicorn piece is a quick sketch, not for commercial use. The historic fabric is still woven today in Museumsweberei Meldorf in a technique called Beiderwand and has been researched by Lucia Schwalenberg. I just was fascinated by these patterns as a child already, they are part of my textile heritage.