The Quaker Tapestry is another huge community embroidery project which took 15 years to complete. Taking an average of two years to embroider a panel there are 77 panels each measuring 25″ (635mm) wide by 21″ (533mm) deep. The tapestry was instigated by Anne Wynn-Wilson and over 4,000 men, women …
I have been wandering about, down the paths of textile history, poking about in digital collections online and found a few snippits about the connections between mourning pictures and samplers. Around 1800 mourning samplers became not only popular but conventionalized. Mourning pictures heavily influenced mourning embroidery. So this is a …
Resolution: from Digital to Cloth was opened yesterday. The exhibition is held at the Foyer Gallery at the ANU School of Art here in Canberra. Often people outside the textile community are surprised to hear that a textile practitioner also works with digital media or that someone interested in digital …
As I said the other day, while Annie Whitsed is away, I am acting as the email contact for enquiries about the First national Crazy Quilt retreat which is to be held here in Canberra from the 1st to the 4th of October 2004 at the Greenhills Conference Center. Well …
Many people find working with colour a challenge. Others simply work out colour schemes like it is their natural language. Some like me just like to play with colour combinations for fun. This site allows you to play with colour schemes. The way it works is that you choose a …
The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 – 1920 is a site that illustrates the rise of a consumer culture presenting over 9,000 images that relate to the early history of advertising in the United States. Anyone with an interest in the history of graphic design or visual culture will …
I know that just after Easter is not the time to talk about chocolate. If you are like me you are on chocolate overload but did you ever wonder where Whitman’s Chocolates got their package design? The birth of the Sampler is fully described on their site. A Tale of …
