No. 6 Legacy, June 2026 issue of It's Interval

The opening spread of an interview feature titled Claudia Hill: Weaving Her World, credited to interviewer David K. Shields. No interview text appears on this page yet, only the title treatment set over a close-up photograph of cream, pink and gold woven fringe.

Claudia Hill's own essay, titled Mythos, introduced as a written reflection on her move from shaping garments in New York's fashion industry to working as a Berlin-based textile artist. The essay is a fable told in the third person about a girl who acquires an antique tapestry loom and gathers others to weave on it together. It runs beside a full-page photograph of Hill wearing a towering indigo woven garment in her studio.

Continues Hill's Mythos fable, in which the loom is ritually cleansed and then threaded by a community of collaborators, alongside the opening of David K. Shields' interview with her. In it Hill describes her first woven work, the Travelling Poncho, and recalls a visiting group of pre-teens realizing that their own jeans are woven too. Four Polaroid photographs by Hill show Andean weavers in Peru working at backstrap looms.

A full-page installation photograph captioned as the exhibition at Shedhalle Zurich, credited to photographer Carla Schleiffer. It shows two tall, brightly colored hanging tapestry columns flanking a wooden loom and a video monitor, with no interview text on this page.

Continues the Shields interview, in which Hill discusses her Travelling Poncho project, begun in 2011 and based on a 1968 book with the word poncho replaced by love, and the companion book Social Fabric: Earth Return. She describes collaborators' contributions to the piece, among them an embroidered ribbon and a poem, as a form of translation. Beside the text is a photograph of a densely woven, fringed tapestry titled Grounding.

Concludes the interview, in which Hill discusses navigating cultural responsibility while weaving alongside indigenous Andean weavers, her continuing fascination with Peru, and her interest in combining solo studio work with collective weaving at different scales. Photographs show tall indigo woven pieces installed outdoors in a field, plus two close-up textile details in yellow and orange.

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