Category Archives: stitch

Etsy Ravenmadeworks – Mola Pillows

Ravenmadeworks I have made a series of pillow covers using refreshed vintage molas and put them in my Etsy shop Ravenmade Works. Molas are the embroidery of the Cuna Indians of Panama. They live on the San Blas Islands on the Atlantic side of Panama. This well-worn mola (above) is a relatively simple design with […]

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Dorothy Caldwell: Book Making – Putting it all Together

Dorothy showed us many other methods for making our mark on fabric and paper. She also showed us many examples of what others had done in the past and what contemporary artists are currently working on.   We were left to continue exploring the methods we liked. Then is was time to start thinking about how […]

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Dorothy Caldwell’s Human Marks Workshop

“An individual stroke is an utterance of touch.” Dorothy Caldwell  Dorothy is demonstrating the next Stroke Painting exercise.  We taped various types of brushes onto long sticks. We dipped them into pots of different dilutions of black ink. With a large sheet of paper on the ground in front of each of us, we were […]

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Etsy, Ravenmade Works New Pillows

I’m getting ready to list more pillows on my Etsy Shop, Ravenmade Works Shop, but I want to know more about the textiles they are made of, where they came from, and who made them. I want to include this information in the description of the pillows. Hand spun, hand woven wool fabric is embroidered […]

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‘Home’ Installed With ‘Continuum’ in Oakville

With this 2nd installation of my graduation work ‘Home’ I was unable to suspend the frame from the ceiling. I had to modify the work to fit the challenging space in the Oakville Town Hall. I used 2 of the 4 sheets to make a bed. And added a plain pillow with a treat. This installation […]

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