He dismantled looms and then reconfigured them so they could achieve different results. He later moved his workshop to Digswell Arts Trust in Welwyn Garden City, where he worked alongside other makers, including the potter Hans Coper (1920–1981).Ĭommitted to innovation with his craft, Collingwood tested and experimented with the limitations of weaving. In 1952 he set up his own workshop in Highgate, London, producing handwoven rugs, which were exhibited and sold widely. There Collingwood met Ethel Mairet (1872–1952), an established and influential hand-loom weaver, who agreed to take him on as her apprentice for several months. Having qualified in medicine and practised as a house surgeon for a number of years, he turned his attention to weaving, ordering his first loom in 1950 from George Maxwell in Ditchling, Sussex, where the sculptor Eric Gill (1882–1940) had previously established a craft community. The warp threads are separated into sections and woven around the horizontal rods in such a way that they create a three-dimensional structure that is broadly zigzag in form.Ĭollingwood was one of the pre-eminent British weavers of the second half of the twentieth century. Additional steel rods connect the horizontal rods vertically, forcing certain sections forwards and giving the work greater depth. The warp threads, which run vertically, are allowed to break through the traditionally flat plane of the weaving through the use of horizontal steel rods that have been woven in at regular intervals from the top to bottom of the hanging, lending structure to the weave. It is comprised of yellow and red linen threads and steel rods. Peter Collingwood’s 3D Wall Hanging c.1960 is a large, woven wall hanging that demonstrates the artist’s innovative approach to hand weaving.
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