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







Showing posts with label Victoria and Albert Museum colour books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Victoria and Albert Museum colour books. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

ballpoint pen....

Yes!! more drawing. Only a little bit and this time in ballpoint pen. I did this in honour of my new page. Are you impressed? I managed to figure out how to add a seperate, stand alone page for my sketchbook and design work. May not be rocket science to you but believe me...it may as well have been for moi!!You will find the link at the top of this page so go ahead, have a look. There's new stuff on there and some older work. I have so much more on flickr too so you will find a link over there to my flickr sketchbook folder.

The little books I have used here are from The Victoria and Albert Museum colour collection. The image plates are quite small but just big enough to make out most of the little details. Right, I've got a headache now...so i'm off to relax with a little piece of cloth.