Well it is time to get back into the swing of my weekly report on the state of my WISPs (Works in Slow Progress). As regular readers will know this year I am attempting to work through a pile of pieced blocks as part of Sandie’s UFO and WISP challenge. …
Art Design and Visual Thinking an online interactive textbook written by Charlotte Jirousek to support an entry level course at Cornell University in the Department of Textiles and Apparel. It is an introduction to design concepts and the idea of visual language
I have been poking around the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco site. With 82,000 digitised art works there is a feast of eye candy for any one. I got lost for a couple of hours in the My gallery section of the site. Then started using keywords such embroidery, …
I have been playing around with a little applet Websites as graphs which is a fun and interesting visualisation tool. I wrote a post about it on my other blog Mindtracks. As I was playing around with these images I thought about translating them into textiles. If you are interested …
Browsing the Memorial Hall Museum Digital Collection led me to discover this Crazy Quilt with a Netted Border. The site has options to zoom in on the image and take a really good look at the details (the icons are found on the right hand side of the screen.) The …
The Ozquilt Network is a national organisation for those interested in art quilts and for those who create art quilts. The site houses a gallery of recent work, a members list, a teachers list, exhibitions section, information on how to join and contact details
The other day Penny of Back Valley Seasons wrote a post about her Grandmothers sampler which made me poke around the net to see if there were any Australian needlework samplers were online. The powerhouse museum has a sampler worked by Isabel Buist (1839) at age 9. As the blurb …
