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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Monday, January 16, 2012

4x3






Remember I said I was maybe going to work some more in this sketchbook? If you do then you will also remember that I said I have a compulsion to buy sketchbooks even if I hardly ever work in them, that I have lots of sketchbooks with only a few pages worked on? (and by the way, from the comments and e-mails after that post I know that I am not alone!!) Well, I did work in a sketchbook...only not that one. I worked in my newest sketchbook, a tiny sketchbook just 3 x 4 inches (approx 8 x 10 cm). I spent a little time over the weekend playing as if I was at nursery school! It does you good, you should try it....and the result? Another sketchbook for the shelf that has only 3 or 4 pages embellished.
If you want a beautiful, tiny sketchbook then I got it here....