Stitching on the Tree Cloths
After sampling… …I used the colour studies to find matching coloured threads… …and headed outside to stitch on the cloth.
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Progress With Red & Students’ Samples
Progress Report on Red: 3rd layer is just about finished VCA student progress with samplesEsther’s couching Sarah’s couching Kati’s couching Garland’s buttonhole stitch on her painted ground fabricThe students will be finishing off their samples and projects this coming week
Read More...‘Tapestry Stone’s’ Narrative
While doing research on Tyndall stone that has been used extensively in public and private buildings through Canada, I was delighted to read it was also known as tapestry stone.I took the idea of weaving and used a random darning stitch to make a woven fabric (burlap as the base cloth).Tapestry is also associated with […]
Read More...‘Walls Talk’s’ Narrative
‘Walls Talk’ has come back from South Korea where it was in the Canadian pavilion at the 2009 Cheongju International Craft Biennale.It is made up of panels in the same Julia Caprara technique as ‘Meadow’ but in this work it is the actual materials that tell the story.The theme of the Canadian exhibition at the […]
Read More...‘Meadow’s’ Narrative
This work is another in a series where i have been using a technique developed by the co-founder and co-principal of the Opus School of Textile Arts, Julia Caprara. (Since Julia’s death the school is known as the Julia Caprara School of Textile Arts, of which I am a student).Julia published a series of articles […]
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Walls Talk is finished – 120 hours of stitching! John Dean is the photographer. He always does a superb job with my work. There is lots of clear detail, which is important with this work, particularly because it is all about the materials. Click on the image to zoom in on the detail.John can see […]
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Working on building up the focal point of the wall. This is a large fossil form caught in the stone. I will have to move the stone blocks around, remaking the wall each time to find the most pleasing arrangement.Block #7 is having a bubble bath.I used a lot of old yarns, worn clothing torn […]
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I’m back stitching in earnst on my Walls Talk (I think that is its name). I have made 8 blocks of Tyndall stone to make the wall. I now have to add lots of detailed stitching to build up each block. Tyndall stone captured lots of different fossil forms so I’m working their shapes into […]
Read More...Julia Caprara’s Funeral
It was Julia’s funeral yesterday. On and off, all day, I was thinking of her, her family and all of their friends and how sad they must be feeling. It has been a help to me to get stuck into some stitching, particularly when this new work is in Julia’s buttonhole textile technique. I have […]
Read More...Julia Caprara’s Buttonhole Textile
I found some more images of the work I posted yesterday. This close up shows the work with the 3rd layer – the buttonhole stitch starting to be built up. The buttonhole stitch works to blend and highlight specific areas of the textile. This is another work using Julia’s technique. It is a Rockies scene […]
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