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







Thursday, March 10, 2016

yesterday and today....

I wasn't here yesterday....two posts in one for you today....






There is a point to all this paper. Aside from it being quite pleasing on the eye it sparks ideas for stitch. I could take this further in so many ways...the button idea being just one of many.
It won't be happening today though. Today I am here...blowing away some cobwebs....
- See more at: http://karenannruane.typepad.com/karen_ruane/2016/03/how-paper-might-inspire-stitch.html#sthash.4Snd9aRF.dpuf






More pages have been filled in my little artist books. These follow on from these ones and these ones....piling samples, scraps of paper, snippets of cloth, interesting textures and these little books on the table means playtime for me and the actual ''putting together'' of the pages does not take long at all....it's the gathering which takes time, the selecting of embroidered scraps and lovely paper.
As you can see, occasionally I doodle on them too...
- See more at: http://karenannruane.typepad.com/karen_ruane/#sthash.sDHVUhQn.dpuf


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