Category Archives: Julia Caprara School of Textile Arts

Sass Tetzlaff – JC 2011 Graduate

‘Domestic Bliss Series’ These are postcard images of another BA(Hons) Julia Caprara School of Textile Arts 2011 graduate – Sass Tetzlaff. Sass told me the images are taken directly from ‘pin-up girl’ posters. She thread painted the images by machine than appliqued them onto pieced backgrounds. The backgrounds are all used men’s shirts and she also incorporated men’s suits […]

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Chlorophyll and Hemoglobin

In my degree studies I am exploring the connection between red cells in human blood and chlorophyll in plants.I dyed many different household linens in greens and reds: pillow cases with embroidery, tea towels, bed sheets, napkins, table cloths.I used a Val Campbell-Harding method to randomly strip-piece the different cloths. After one cut and sewing […]

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Art Deco Design

Here is an image of my design wall at an early stage of my Art Deco study. I grouped images according to influences on the movement, illustrations of why it was known as a ‘total’ style, design features, materials and colours. These are some of the influences on the movement. One of the predominant design […]

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Art Deco In Victoria BC Canada

One of the unique aspects of the Art Deco Movement is it ‘moved’ all around the world. Here in Victoria, where I live, I found some fine examples of well preserved Art Deco architecture.In 1931 Imperial Oil built a 3 tiered garage on the waterfront inner harbour area of the city and topped it with […]

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