Before I realized I really wouldn’t have much wall space in the “studio,” I started collecting images of art that was textile or needleart-related, with the intention of finding a framable print or two for the walls in my project room. While organizing some of the image files (I have over 60,000 pictures on my ...
Gaze at one hundred years of people knitting.
je suis une mono-maniaque^^, dans TOUT. par exemple si j'adore une chanson je peux écouter que elle pendant des semaines et semaines à répétition. mais vu que je suis une vraie mono-maniaque je vais me chercher en ligne ou ailleurs toutes les versions possibles et imaginables jamais enregistrées de cette même chanson. il y a eu la période Fever. la période Helter Skelter. puis (sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay. Accross the Universe. Louie Louie et encore des autres, toutes écoutées et chantées pendant des semaines à la suite. puis il y a les films que je vois et revois jusqu'à les savoir par cœur, jusqu'à les absorber. ou quand je trouve un livre/bd d'un auteur que j'aime je dois lire toute sa production, page par page, rien ne doit passer à la trappe. et je suis pareille pour les vêtements: quand j'achète un "fringue" nouveau je le mets jusqu'à épuisement. et souvent je varie le même modèle en plusieurs couleurs (ou en ce moment plusieurs tailles) alors pourquoi je ne devrais pas faire pareil pour la chose la plus extraordinaire qui ne me soit jamais arrivé depuis que je suis née? je parle du fait d'être maman, allaiter, porter ma fille dans l'écharpe etcétéra et vu que je suis aussi une amante des images, je passe sur google des heures et des heures dans la nuit (au lieu de dormir!) à chercher images de femmes allaittantes ou qui portent. et aujourd'hui je veux partager avec vous le résultat de mes recherches. d'images d'allaitement j'en ai trouvé pleins et je voudrais les classer mieux par pays/thèmes/époques avant de vous le montrer. mais la je vais vous poster ici les image de portage (ou babywearing) (oui oui je suis une vraie mamma-nerdTM en plus d'une mono-maniaque ^^) europe: suede portugal polland polland polland knitting sweden de Francesco Londonio Da Napoli Harz europe germany 1920 europe est europa nazaré portugal (1400) (18ème siècle, france)) amerique du nord: (squaws) (north america) usa usa amerique du sud: sudamerica peru mexico de carlos nabel (2003, south america) (brazil) (brazil) lapponie: (mamans lapons avecle parka de portage:amauti) africa: masai somalia zimbabwe (cameroon, 1920) (1931) uganda nigeria mozambique (africa market) (mamma, bambina, bambola) (bautchi, africa) nigeria nigeria mozambique (egitto) egitto morocco reunion (queen tuwar, bassorilievo assiro) asie: cina china china china china china (china doll) (laos, asia) tailandia java Aïnous japponese india wedding kurdistan turco russia nonna gaungto woman bornau (19°secolo, kingdom of bornau) (new zeeland) (atlantic) (1796, kaffre woman) comme quoi, c'est vraiment un art!
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a woman knitting in Union Square WPA fresco murals by Lucien Labaudt.
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Excuse me a moment,' murmured Mr Saxby, applying himself to the sock again. 'I'm just turning the heel. Do you knit?'
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Mrs. Eunecia Street Stebbins (1759-1817), 1805-1806 Reuben Mouthrop (1763-1814), American Oil on canvas under glass 30" x 24" Owner: Howard S. Ranson, Connecticut (according to the Art Inventories Catalog Smithsonian American Art Musuem Smithsonian Institution Research Information System) I love portraits of the American colonial era and I particularly like this painting. I have a large photograph of it from a catalogue from Christie's (1998) which shows the beautiful green fabric of the gown, the black lace shawl, the fabulous cap and, of course, the stocking on the four exquisite thin needles. The sitter, as in many paintings that are called primitive or folk art has a misproportioned body in that the arms, in this case, are too large and low for the body, and are far forward in the image. The hands are very big and the skin is a dusky pinkish-white with grey shadows all over. The face, though, is kindly and sweet, with more expression than is usually found in this genre. Mrs. Stebbins looks out directly at us, a hint of a slightly lop-sided smile about to break out, and no suggestion of annoyance in being disturbed at her knitting. On the contrary, she looks pleased to see us unlike other painted knitters who have graced this blog. The knitting is of great interest and right there in the foreground, nice and clear. Four medium-length thin needles with a stocking begun in a very fine yarn - wool, silk, linen? There are no slubs in this yarn but, since it is in a painting, this means nothing. One can, however, almost count the stitches, 48 and about 10 more or so on the nearest needle, and 28 and a few more on the back needle. There are some, though not too many, on the needle closest to the body and none, as far as I can see, on the remaining needle, as if Mrs. Stebbins was just about to start working with that empty needle. Even though this is a painting, and so the accuracy cannot be trusted, the stitch count is not far off from a stocking I am currently knitting from The Knitting Teacher's Assistant, dated 1817, which is held to be the earliest collection of printed *patterns* currently available, at least in English. Mrs. Stebbins is knitting with very thin needles and fine yarn whereas the pattern suggests "coarse worsted and large needles" so I am using 3.25mm/3US needles and Harrisville Designs 2 ply Shetland wool in Marigold. I adore the texture and colour of this wool so I am whipping up these stockings fairly quickly and will discuss them in another post very soon.
Here's a set of photographs by Daniela Edburg, who creates surreal scenes and landscapes around the theme of knitting. She tells us, I started knitting
I knit the lap robe for a veteran. I used 2 skeins of Red Heart yarn color Blue, and size 10 needles. I cast on 120 stitches, and knit every row. Size about 31 inches wide x 33 inches long.
Gaze at one hundred years of people knitting.
In one study of more than 3,500 knitters, published in The British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 81 per cent of respondents with depression reported feeling happy after knitting. More than half …
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