Category: Fiber and Textile Arts

Mourning Samplers


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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 …

The Shareware Project

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Images in The Shareware Project album went up yesterday. I made these ‘postcards’ in 1998-2000. As a project it would have been much easier to do if I had a blog. However in 1998 when I started The Shareware Project blogs were not on the scene according to rebecca’s pocket …

Flirtatious Fans


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Did you know that twirling a fan in the left hand was a warning as it ‘we are being watched’ whereas twirling it in the right meant ‘I am interested in someone else’. Yesterday I mentioned that how fans were held had a language. I thought I would expand a …

Do you Know her Name?


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Contemporary textile artist Terese Agnew is in need of clothing labels for her latest project. Do you know her name? Is a textile project in which Terese Agnew plans to create a portrait. When finished will be 8 feet high and 9 feet wide. Images of the quilt will be …