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
25 comments:
Beeyootiful!
interesting, unusual and beautiful. hard to see the white on the white background. but that might just be me with my bad eyes.
otherwordly Karen, just awesome
Just beautiful!
amazing
Just decided that I cannot keep up with the many talents you have. You know how to surprise me time and again.
Oh, I love, love, love this!
Karen these flowers are wonderful! And you made the lace, impressive. I have always loved lace and these have the spirit of webs - quite wonderful.
Beautiful work ! :) What stitch are you using to make the star shape that appears on yesterday's post (orange on the pink stripes).
Must as I love what you usually do this has totally wowed me Karen.
Ten tonnes of stunning here soooo lovey i can not express.
Brenda, that's a variation of spiders web stitch. I say variation because i'm sure I don't do it the way I was taught!!
So delicate and beautiful!!!
I love the sculptural forms you have created, so delicate, just stunning white on white.
Yet more marvels! The lace is so delicate!
Ohhh loverly :-)
There is an ineffable quality of elegant timelessness about this piece - how completely beautiful!
:) Linda
Beautiful! I love that you're breathing new and exciting life into some old cotton, which was just hanging about, waiting to be loved.
This is simply divine.
All I can say is 'oh'. My jaw has struck the keyboard as it dropped open in sheer awe.
Wow. I think I'm speechless.
OMG, drop dead gorgeous! I LOVE it, I WANT it!!!!!!!!!
;-) Debi
Lush... rally like those
beautiful!
WOW !!!
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