After yesterdays post and my ramble on a combination of chicken scratch, needle weaving, even weave techniques such as drawn and pulled thread work and contemporary laidwork on an evenweave foundation fabric I received an email from Allison Aller about a piece she had worked in contemporary needle weaving using …
Stephen Sollins has recently exhibited his “deconstructed” embroidered samplers from his Elegy Series. Sollins takes samplers and removes the stitching, counts the stitches by colour and then embroiders a modernist geometric grid over the top. I have very mixed feelings about this practice as although a trace of the original …
This is one of the reasons I like blogs. They can send your mind off into a dozen different directions at once. Thanks to Linda I did not miss this little gem. Dawn of Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost has posted an image of a piece of vintage …
Librarians are trained to classify sifts and sort information and love reading. When they turn to blogging the site they publish is often well written, clearly laid out, and a big plus for me is that they link to stuff online. Amanda Etches-Johnson is librarian who describes her blog Minor …
I received an interesting question from Susan Sorrell. Has anyone used Lutradur in their textile practice? I had not heard of it and not seen it anywhere in Australia so of course I immediately did a search and came up with the company site. Lutradur specialises in the production of …
Interfacings and what to use where is one of those topics I have noticed sewers can become quite authoritarian about. There are two basic types of interfacings the first is stitched the other is fusible or ironed in. Both are on the market in woven, knitted and non woven varieties …
Dijanne Cevaal of Musings of a textile itinerant has raised some interesting issues about arts funding support for curators. As some people know but others I am sure are unaware of Dijanne is an independent curator who has toured a number of travelling exhibitions. Her main beef expressed in this …
