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©Ioana Emanuela Avarvarii
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Marisol Ramos Leo

  • Slow Loom
  • Weaver
  • San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain
  • Rising Star
Marisol Ramos Leo Weaver
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Linen in her hands

  • • Marisol weaves with traditional looms
  • • She is dedicated to the tradition of linen weaving
  • • Her workshop is the only one of its kind in the Canaries

Marisol Ramos Leo's teacher, Tomás Hernández, taught her to weave wool fabrics for traditional costumes of the Canary Islands. But Marisol was more interested in linen because of its characteristics and properties. "One fine day I took the step to specialise in this wonderful fibre and now I am the only workshop dedicated exclusively to linen," she says. She opened her workshop in December 2020 and still remembers the first object she made. "A scarf that has served me as a prototype, to test how the fabric behaved over time and as a model to show what I am capable of doing with the loom," says Marisol. She is often inspired by nature, but also by architecture, music, clouds, everyday objects, a painting, or cinema.

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Works

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Primavera

This is a light and soft shawl woven on the manual loom. It is made of linen in its natural colour. Along one of the edges, it has seven linen flowers also handmade. The technique used is a taffeta weave.

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Alegria

This is a shawl made on the manual loom. It is a black and white linen warp. For its weft, Marisol Ramos Leo has used up to seven different colours such as red, white, orange, turquoise, purple and green in combination with the natural colour of the linen. The technique used is the twill weave. For its finishing the fringes were twisted by hand.

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Joya

This is a soft and light shawl. On a brown linen base, this unique piece has been created by combining the brown of the base with turquoise and golden linen. The technique used is overshot. The piece has been finished with hand twisted fringes.

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Green Dream

This piece is a wrap-around shawl of pleasant touch and with body, made on the manual loom. It is a warp in rustic linen and weft in green, combined with three shades of pink and a couple of cotton threads in ecru. For the design, the taffeta composite weave has been used and it is finished with hand-twisted bangs.

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Grecia

This is a soft touch wrap shawl, in gold and off-white. It is woven on the handloom with linen and cotton fibres with traceability. The technique used is the composite taffeta weave. The finish is a loose fringe.

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