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 happiness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happiness. Show all posts

Saturday, December 4, 2010

saturday.....

Outside it's raining, it's cold. There is white stuff, there is slush, there is ice. Inside............
This is my dining room chair. Inside I am warm, cosy, surrounded by cloth, making a mess. The house all to myself I am pressing cloth, measuring, cutting, putting a piece of ''white'' together.
Happiness is.......

Sunday, August 22, 2010

happiness

Happiness is buying a new stash of cloth and then playing away to your hearts content. Yes I interupt your sunday yet again, I had to, sorry. Cyber space is SO quiet on a sunday that somebody needs to wake it up. I slept late today but obviously not as late as you lazy lot! Where is everybody??? Look......I can sleep late and sew......yesterday I bought a stash of gingham, silk and broderie anglaise. So far I am up to here. I have a plan for this infact I am going to make three, yes that magic number again. I won't say yet what this will be until I have all three ready but that doesn't mean you should get too excited, it's not going to be astounding it's just that I want them to be finished first, more of an impact I reckon showing three at once. So this evening I shall start number two, I may even pin number three together. I will let you know how I get on....