I found this online facsimile of a book of lace designs by Federic Vinciolo who in 1606 was commissioned by the French court to produce lace. Many of these designs could be used as a design source – converted to cross stitch and used on samplers. Thinking about it, I …
Did you know that the word ‘green’ dates back to the root ‘gr’, meaning to grow. By medieval times it was the colour of love. This and all sorts of related trivia about colour and their pigments can be found on Pigments through the ages you can explore an over …
Working up designs in my studio journal is something I do all the time. Visual Journals and Studio Journal more or less mean the same thing. This article was in part prompted by a conversation I had with a work colleague the other day. He was saying that he works …
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 …
