Jette Nevers
Danish weaver and textile artist
Jette Lykke Nevers (born 1943) is a Danish weaver and textile artist. She is best known for the works she has created for Danish churches, including altar frontals, chancel carpets and chasubles. Nevers has also produced designs for companies including Georg Jensen Damask and Kvadrat. As a result of her widely exhibited creations at home and abroad, as well as the many students she has trained, Nevers has been a major influence in the development of Danish textile art.
Early life and family
Born in Copenhagen on 17 May 1943, Jette Lykke Nevers was the daughter of the utility worker Carl Ove Peder Nevers and his wife Rosa Ingeborg Kirstine née Hansen, a cashier. While studying textile art at Copenhagen's Arts and Crafts School (1961–65), she gained practical experience with Sofie Anker, Bornholm, and Søs and Ib Drasbæk, Funen. In 1966, she married the smith Henrik Warding Hansen (later changed name to Nevers).
Career
In 1965, Nevers established her own workshop where she created shawls and ponchos in natural colours. In the early 1970s, she experimented with a number of different weaving techniques and was commissioned to create pictorial carpets. Nevers was inspired early on by the free style of the textile artists Franka Rasmussen and John Kristian Becker (1915–86).
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