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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Friday, March 11, 2011

pressing, pinning and tacking...

happiness is......gorgeous, wonderful, amazing fine cotton lawn, cut, folded and pressed into prairie points. Yesterday afternoon....pressing points, pinning points and tacking them to an edge of toe wrap two.
It stopped after the tacking stage, I had hooks and eyes to hand sew to the backs of my white pieces. Yesterday I said goodbye to  ''wrapping cloth one''. Today I have to go to the post office. I will miss it but it's going to a wonderful new home and I couldn't be happier, I know it will be cherished.