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







Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Pages of embroidery.

 

I guess the 'cloth book' is a running theme here.

I last spoke about those here.

 Yesterday, whilst 'sorting through' a pile of embroidered work I came across unmounted samples, perfect pieces for the current cloth book.

New fabric and embroidery will be added to some of these, creating more embroidered pages.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

These are beautiful Karen. I don’t remember seeing them before. 😊

November 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Liza said...

Well I wish I could just find such beautiful work in my piles. These are stunning

November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Anonymous said...

Who doesn't love a cloth book and such a pile of stunning potential pages in a "pile". I have pile envy... particularly the long cream silk one on the right with the bobbles.

November 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Magpie's Mumblings said...

Doing a dive into your stash yielded some great fodder for new work. Now, if only such a dive in MY stash would yield anything beyond dust elephants...

November 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM

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