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







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Sunday, February 6, 2011

blame the weather....

Sorry!! honestly I really am...it's the rain, the wind, the cloud. It is far too gloomy to unveil my toe wrap. The weatherman tells me tomorrow may?? be better, let's hope so. It is ready, it is finished, I had the pleasure of it warming my toes this very morning, wonderful!!! I love it so much. To keep you going I will show you progress on toe wrap two instead...there are three pieces of this tacked together, some embellished areas, some as yet untouched. The top picture shows the ''newest'' embroidery done last night until the early hours. That's my lovely bird fabric cut up and appliqued.
This isn't necessarily how it will look, where the pieces will be placed when it's finished. There are a lot of sections yet to be made. This picture just illustrates how they all go together at the moment. and I'm still not sure about that red....
there's a new page at the top......do you like?

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.