We looked up We looked down We climbed We looked up We looked down We climbed We walked and walked And once some of us ran – on the first Olympic track, ever We fact checked And every evening we warmed up, sampled unique Greek drinks and talked about what we had seen that day. […]
Read More...After attending the Textile Society of America Symposium in Savannah Ingrid and I flew up to Washington DC with the intention of checking out the newly relocated Textile Museum now on the George Washington University campus. Unfortunately, our timing was not great. We could only enjoy the shop because the gallery was closed while a new exhibition […]
Read More...Textile Society of America Symposium 2016 The opening reception was held at the SCAD Museum of Art scad.edu/museum On a balmy evening, 400 delegates from 23 different countries gathered on the podium between the oldest surviving antebellum railroad depot in the US and the modern building of the art museum. After a time of nibbling delicious […]
Read More...After flying across the Pacific from New Zealand we endured a 10-hour layover in San Francisco. We occupied ourselves with: finding a short term hotel room – no such place; a shower – closed for renovations; a place to sleep – the meditation/prayer room but that didn’t last long because the dark quiet room was intoxicating […]
Read More...Professor Kerry Mason and world authority on all things Emily Carr gives a presentation to the Gatherers about the artist’s sketches, paintings, textiles and pottery. I have the job of introducing Kerry Sheila Wex, BC + Yukon representative for SDA and Barbara McCaffrey, Gathering at the Edge committee member. Everyone was captivated by the way Kerry […]
Read More...A friend gave me 2 lengths of lame-type fabric. One had this label. A search of the name revealed Bucol has been a famous silk house in Lyon since 1920. I needed to test the fabrics to find out if they were silk, or not. Out came the burn chart. The silver one burned briefly […]
Read More...Jean Paul Lemieux, Sketch for “The Ursulines”1951This work caught my eye because we had spent a morning doing research in the Ursuline Museum.Evidently the artist spent about 2 years working on this idea for a painting. It’s final form was a big change in style from his earlier works.He entered it in the 1951 Quebec […]
Read More...Articulation visited many cathedrals, churches and chapels while in Quebec City. Two were the most memorable for me. One was originally the Petit Seminaire of Quebec’s chapel but now a deconsecrated building and incorporated into the Musee De L’Amerique Francophone.My 1st reaction to the chapel was surprise when we discovered all the wood, marble and granite walls and ceilings are […]
Read More...Articulation’s 2013 study session was in Quebec City. One of the highlights of the week was the time spent studying embroderies produced by the Ursuline nuns and their students. They had specialised in producing heavily embroidered textiles for the Catholic churches and their priests. Their main techniques were raised gold work and long and short stitch […]
Read More...When I travel I look for a number of reoccurring symbols, one of which is the Tree of Life. I found some very interesting ones in the Church of our Saviour on Spilled Blood, in Saint Petersburg. They are huge mosaics, high on the walls. They are on all sides of the church and each one is […]
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