For centuries women have used cloth as a tool of comfort and as an expression of beauty within their homes. Creating cloth for warmth, cloth for shelter, our female predecessors embellished these linens with hand stitch using laborious and time consuming techniques thereby enhancing the functional beauty of objects which enveloped and protected their families. Inspired by these women I hope my creations pay tribute to and recognise the devotion expressed in cloth by our female ancestors .
''the use of traditional often time consuming process alludes to the devotion of a mother''. c K. A. Ruane 2007
On another subject, I delivered these two cloths to a gallery in Bacup this morning. I didn't even get lost on the way which is an achievement for me. I have absolutely no sense of direction, I even turn the wrong way coming out of my own front door.....I kid you not!
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