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, June 5, 2026

Finishing embroidered pages.

 

In my last post about this hand embroidered artist book I mentioned how the next stage would be to back each page.

That is happening now and I am about to create a front and back cover, again from delicate stitched papers. 

I demonstrate the backing process in the video today.

In the video I also show a glimpse of the embellishment on each page, pages created by first stitching delicate tissue papers and tearing them to create surfaces for hand embroidery. 


 

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