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







Friday, January 16, 2026

Embellishments

 

Hand stitched embellishments for this project.

Yes, they were fiddly! My girls in class won't be shocked to hear that ha ha.

The little square pieces are one inch in size, the tiny tag pieces measure one inch by half an inch.

If you can't source pieces to fit with your colour and pattern choices then why not make them youself? 

 

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1 comment:

Rachel said...

Absolutely. Just because the trim you want doesn't exist, that's no reason not to have it... You just make it yourself!

January 16, 2026 at 3:33 PM

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