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 sugary knots. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 10, 2012

sugary knots, white knots





There's a proper French knot love in going on here. I am surrounded by them. The white knots are for class, my cloth. The sugary knots are a progression from the circles...I can move from a circle to a squiggle I amaze myself sometimes! Looking again though, not so much a squiggle more a dot....There is a plan..... I'm just not ready to share. Not because it's a massive secret or anything more because the rate I'm working it could be Christmas and many more days like today it will be never. I am having one of those days when everything seems to take ten times longer than normal. What's that about? Can't cope with it to be honest....officially? It's driving me nuts.