tea cloth Archives - Lesley Turner

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‘Earth Repair’ – 3 Years Later

2014 3 years 3 months after the emergency while living outside wrapped around the Indian plum I brought the 3 afternoon tea cloths inside. They were carefully washed, dried and ironed. I was hoping the laundering had stopped the decay processes. There is much staining and decay and large holes had appeared. How to preserve this […]

‘Earth Repair’ – the Beginings

‘Earth Repair’ began as a response to what I considered to be an emergency situation. March 11, 2011 – quoting from my journal – ‘Emergency. It has been a long winter here on the island. The deer are hungry. They are eating the bark on my precious Indian Plum. I need to care for this tree. The […]

‘Earth Repair’ Makes it into the World of Threads Festival 2016

Lesley Turner, ‘Earth Repair’ 36″ x 35″/92 x 89 cm, 2011 – ongoing, embroidered (anonymous) vintage cotton afternoon tea cloth, leaf skeletons, cotton & polyester thread, jute string, wooden branch, MinWax; tree staining, washing, ironing, hand & machine applique, waxing. This work has been accepted into the World of Threads Festival 2016 in the ‘Late in the […]

Embroiderers Guild of Victoria 45th Anniversary Afternoon Tea

Embroiderers Guild of Victoria 45th Anniversary Afternoon Tea The Tea Wagon/Trolly Barbara Gilbert’s embroidered tea cosies covering teapots Special tiered cake stands Fresh scones were served with strawberry jam and clotted cream Cake Stands Cake stands made from vintage plates and crystal/cut glass dishes and vases Silver, porcelain and ceramic teapots with milk jugs and sugar […]

‘Edge of the Forest’ Opens

Edge of the Forest Exhibition Opens The first exhibition of the Canadian Surface Design Association’s ‘Edge of the Forest’ opens in the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. Richmond Hill It is up for all of March. There is an opening reception on March 11th. Here is the rest of the schedule, to date: April […]

Art at the Whyte

Lesley Turner ‘Valuing Women’s Work’ 81″ x 62″, composted, hand stitching; cottonAn afternoon tea cloth was left under a maple tree during fall to be incorporated into the decay cycle. After many hours of washing, ironing and stitching the work goes largely unnoticed as the restored cloth is sacrificed again to protect furniture while the […]

Eco-Printing Unwrapped but Not Wrapt

Progress on my ‘Red’ series of panelsThere are the result of research done in the Bay of Fundy Finally the results of an eco-printing session, after waiting patiently for 2 weeks before peekingI am testing native flora in my back yardResults from the Big-leaf maple… …are limited Douglas-fir…. …had minimal effect

Dyeing the Tree Cloths

I like the distinctive individual stained patterns on each of the Tree Cloths but I don’t like the overall greyness. They don’t look attractive.Perhaps dyeing will help.I torn off a sample from each Tree Cloth and scrumpled it in a tray, a la Claire Benn-Leslie Morgan dyeing technique. Using Procion MX, I put in a […]

Triage Centre in the Garden

Here on Vancouver Island it has been a long winter. The deer are hungry and looking for a tonic for their stomachs. They have been gnawing on the bark of our Indian Plum, so much so I was concerned about the tree’s welfare. My solution was to set up a triage station around the tree […]

Dissertation

For my BA(Hons) studies I wrote my dissertation on my mother’s 4 embroidered afternoon tea cloths. …and one cloth I was given by her friend when I became engaged.I learned so much. I am continuing to study the ideas raised in my next module of work, which started this week. My holiday is over and I am back […]