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 …
A few weeks ago I posted an image of the block I worked from one of Vivian and Mary’s Heavenly Embellishment Bliss bags. Annie Whitsed and I were both given a choice of bags. The idea was to see what we could do with them. I am not associated in …
What have I been up to? While recovery mode I assumed I would be stitching but quickly found that it involved a little too much movement – twisting in one direction to reach that colour thread, then deciding that colour bead on the shelves behind me were needed then back …
Owen Jones classic The Grammar of Ornament is online. The 1910 edition is provided free by the Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture Another gem from the same collection of e books also by Owen Jones is the 1867 edition of Examples of Chinese ornament selected from …
