Crafts CouncilDirectoryMargo SelbyKaleidoscopeAboutMargo thinks a lot about optical effect and plays with off-kilter symmetry, pull-focus and forced perspectives. A Kaleidoscope is a playful 19th century device to delight the eye with colour and pattern seen through an ocular tube – Margo adopts it here to describe the act of focussed vision and the sensations of colour. The panels of Kaleidoscope have thousands of individual strands of yarn – each one of those hand-threaded, counted and re-counted.Margo SelbyWhitstable, EnglandMargo Selby: Kaleidoscope Triptych, Margo Selby Studio.Margo Selby Kaleidoscope panels I, II and III, 2022. Handwoven stretched lampas panels, in tencel and silk; stretched and framed in wood. Each panel: 1795mm (h) x 920mm (w).Kaleidoscope on the loom., Margo Selby Studio.Warp.Margo at the loom., Margo Selby Studio.Weaving Kaleidoscope.Margo Selby with Kaleidoscope., Margo Selby Studio.KaleidoscopeAboutMargo thinks a lot about optical effect and plays with off-kilter symmetry, pull-focus and forced perspectives. A Kaleidoscope is a playful 19th century device to delight the eye with colour and pattern seen through an ocular tube – Margo adopts it here to describe the act of focussed vision and the sensations of colour. The panels of Kaleidoscope have thousands of individual strands of yarn – each one of those hand-threaded, counted and re-counted.Margo SelbyWhitstable, EnglandMargo Selby: Kaleidoscope Triptych, Margo Selby Studio.Margo Selby Kaleidoscope panels I, II and III, 2022. Handwoven stretched lampas panels, in tencel and silk; stretched and framed in wood. Each panel: 1795mm (h) x 920mm (w).Margo at the loom., Margo Selby Studio.Weaving Kaleidoscope.Kaleidoscope on the loom., Margo Selby Studio.Warp.Margo Selby with Kaleidoscope., Margo Selby Studio.More from Margo SelbyProjectVexillumProjectTessellationProjectPick by PickProjectZoetropeProjectMargo Selby X Love Welcomes – Patchwork Art Blankets by Refugee Women.ProjectCarréProjectYarn Winding