14kn LARGE INTERLACING-R, nylon fiber, 17.75" x 63" x 63", 45 x 160 x 160cm, 2004, $8,000

6kn INTERLACING-R acrylic and wood 39.5" x 43.25" x 12", 2002 $6,000

Selected permanent collections and exhibition venues: Musée de Angers, France and Textilmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland (5th - 8th International Triennials of Miniature Textiles); Savaria Museum, Szombathely, Hungary (8th International Biennial of Miniature Textiles); American Craft Museum, New York, New York; Lausanne, Switzerland (12th International Tapestry Biennial); Aldeen Bisen, Belgium; University of Art and Design Gallery, Helsinki, Finland; Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.; Chugoku Modern Art Museum, Japan; Kyoto City Museum, Japan (International Textile Competition); Musée de la Civilisation, Québec, Canada; Museum of Contemporary Tapestry, Angers, France. Recipient: Silver Prize, Kyoto Contemporary Craft Competition.

14kn Detail LARGE INTERLACING-R

Statement: I work in the traditional technique of kumihimo. I used this technique to create a large white work for the 1985 International Biennial of Tapestry in Lausanne and, more recently, to create a small yellow work for the 2006 8th International Miniature Textile Triennial in Angers, France. In my works, I combine industrial and natural materials. In Large Interlacing-R, have created three circles using yotugumi and yatsugumi in kumihimo technique to illustrate the themes “order,” “chaos” and “uncertainty.” Currently, I am at work on a large blue circle of tapes dyed in splashed pattern to express the theme “instability.”                                                           Keiji Nio

4kn INTERLACING-Rnylon, wood 19.75” x 4” x 4”, 1997 $1,800