Posts Tagged ‘thread’

still stitching

April 5, 2011
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stitching

Originally uploaded by SOFennell

I had a clear idea in mind as to approach, but it didn’t work. Theoretically, it did, but for this particular series, it just doesn’t (I wonder if this is grammatically correct).

I thought, after looking at a variety of approaches for hanging textiles, especially during “Traces,” I had it. So, I cut and stitched several pieces attaching one to another “back” or mat piece (fabric) to “compliment” the shibori, but in the end I pulled out  the stitches, undoing my earlier work, returning to my original idea. It will have to do.  It’s far simpler and sometimes that’s best.

In the mean time, I need to finish some rough edges.  So, I’m still stitching.

Writing with Thread 2

December 4, 2008

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Well, what do you know? This month’s(Jan./Feb.) Fiberarts Magazine has a 4 page feature article on the “Writing with Thread” Exhibit. The illustrations are exquisite.

Writing with Thread

December 2, 2008
Writing with Thread

Writing with Thread

While puttering this morning before settling into work I found a  link about this exhibit in a past Threads magazine. It’s over now, but the work that’s available to see intrigues.  A quote from the site reads:

Needle, thread and cloth are to the ethnic minorities in Southwest China, are what pen, ink and paper are to are to mainstream Han culture. Most of the minority groups were semi-nomadic peoples without
written languages of their own. Traditions and customs were passed orally from generation to generation. However, the textile arts, portable and lightweight, served as visual records of a group’s ethno-history. A Jingpo minority saying states, “The tubular skirts are our almanac; they were words of our ancestors.” Old generations can “read” from the woven or embroidered garb the stories of ancestral descent, migration, religion and spiritual communication.

I don’t find this at all different from what I’m seeing going on around me now, although the stories and contexts may be very different. There’s probably a lot of spiritual communication.


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