Let me whisk you back to a time when gas was just 40 cents a gallon, a movie ticket could be snagged for a mere buck and a half, and we all were swaying to the latest Beatles hit. The president was a man of charisma, John F. Kennedy, and every driveway seemed to sparkle
“Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither.” “In these all-seeing days, the traffic between memory and forgetting beco
This handwoven wall hanging was commissioned in loving memory of a passed loved one, and the original now hangs in private residence. The tapestry is made of cotton, raffia, and wool with some metallic thread accents, hung on a natural branch. While the original has sold, this design or style can be closely recreated upon request, simply reach out to me for details and updated lead times, or visit my website for more information on the commission process. The original piece photographed measures 48" wide and 30" tall.
Rochester Star by Jean Stanclift This is the last block in the 2014 Threads of Memory BOM The patterns were free online for two y...
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Block #3 New Garden Star by Jean Stanclift New Garden Star layers the classic eight-pointed star atop a four-pointed star. Th...
Quilting is more than just a craft - it's a journey filled with special moments, creativity, and memories waiting to be captured. Imagine being able to document every stitch, every fabric choice, and every moment of inspiration in a journal that tells the story of your quilting journey. In this blog post, we will explore the art of quilting journaling and how it can elevate your quilting experience. From preserving memories through the power of words to embracing imperfection and unleashing the power of storytelling in your quilting projects, this guide will provide you with tips, prompts, and ideas to help you create a lasting record of your craft. Join us as we dive into the world of crafting memories through the art of quilting journaling.
Emma Parker, a.k.a. Stitch Therapy, is an embroidery artist from the UK.
Paul Chiappe Paul Chiappe creates meticulous, haunting drawings that borrow the visual language of photography to explore ideas of memory, reinvention, anonymity, and loss. Referencing found photog…
Have you ladies and gent(s) seen this issue? I know many of you have, since you're the ones who recommended it to me. Damn, this thing is good. It's worth it for the price alone for the article "Memories of a Parisian Seamstress: Tales and techniques from the workrooms of couturier Jacques Fath." The funny thing is, I actually have this article on my Threads DVD that I got for Christmas a few years ago, but somehow never came across it. It outlines, step by step, the process that Fath used for draping an evening gown foundation with cotton tulle. (As you might recall, I wrote about this technique a few weeks ago). I can't recommend the article highly enough. It's given me a ton of ideas for how I might utilize this technique on my own. Plus, it gives a bunch of awesome insights into being a seamstress for Fath in the late 40s. It's pretty amazing being able to read a first-hand account of that era. There are also articles on Chanel, Norman Norell, and Yves St. Laurent, among others. Even if you have these on disc, it's pretty cool being able to read them all together, on the subway, for instance. Anyone else obsessing over this issue?
Memories often are described colloquially as being woven into our brains, threaded through our minds in ways that affect our every day. For Cécile Davidovici, though, memories and lengthy stitches hold a different relationship, and weaving her thread paintings is a process of remembering rather than the state of the memory itself. The Paris-based artist sources the content of her series <<1988 from home videos taken by her parents throughout her upbringing. More
Quilting is more than just a craft - it's a journey filled with special moments, creativity, and memories waiting to be captured. Imagine being able to document every stitch, every fabric choice, and every moment of inspiration in a journal that tells the story of your quilting journey. In this blog post, we will explore the art of quilting journaling and how it can elevate your quilting experience. From preserving memories through the power of words to embracing imperfection and unleashing the power of storytelling in your quilting projects, this guide will provide you with tips, prompts, and ideas to help you create a lasting record of your craft. Join us as we dive into the world of crafting memories through the art of quilting journaling.
Paul Chiappe Paul Chiappe creates meticulous, haunting drawings that borrow the visual language of photography to explore ideas of memory, reinvention, anonymity, and loss. Referencing found photog…
Chiharu Shiota has called her thread installations “drawings in space.” Using antique furniture and other objects evoking memory, her work has explored how we're tethered to the past and each other. Shiota's work, and her performance art, has recently taken over spaces at KODE-Art Museum of Bergen in Norway, Museum Nikolaikirche in Berlin, Kenji Taki Gallery in Japan, and SCAD Museum of Art in Georgia. The artist was last featured on HiFructose.com here.
The art of embroidery has existed throughout time, dating as far back as 5th century BC. Despite its centuries-old origins, this timeless craft has
In Valerie Hammond’s series of wax drawings, protection is two-fold: the artist (previously) encases dried flowers and ferns in a thin layer of wax, preserving their fragile tissues long after they’ve been plucked from the ground. In outlining a pair of hands, she also secures a memory, or rather, “the essence of a gesture and the fleeting moment in which it was made.” Centered on limbs lying flat on Japanese paper, the ongoing series dates back to the 1990s, when Hammond made the first tracing “partly in response to the death of a dear friend, whose beautiful hands I often found myself remembering.” She continued by working with family and friends, mainly women and children, to delineate their wrists, palms, and fingers. More
Memories often are described colloquially as being woven into our brains, threaded through our minds in ways that affect our every day. For Cécile Davidovici, though, memories and lengthy stitches hold a different relationship, and weaving her thread paintings is a process of remembering rather than the state of the memory itself. The Paris-based artist sources the content of her series <<1988 from home videos taken by her parents throughout her upbringing. More
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A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry and Hmong story clothes to the AIDS quilt and pink pussyhats, people have long used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate or circumstances. Threads of Life is a chronicle of id
On a besoin des mains et des doigts… Un mètre de ficelle… Jouer à deux c’est tellement mieux!
Hard is my lot in deep distress To have no help where most should find Sure Nature meant her sacred Laws Should men as strong as Women bind. A verse left with a baby in 1759 The London Foundling Hospital was founded by royal charter in 1739 and its work continues to the present day. There is a museum in London called the foundling museum and is situated in Brunswick square. There they have on show some of the things pinned to the babies found. There were little notes and sometimes rhymes with little scraps of fabrics attached or little tokens for the child to keep from their birth mothers, mothers that had no other heartbreaking choice but leave the care of their child to someone else..... The charity from the beginning tried to keep records and requires a vast 250 mtrs of shelving for the ledgers and entry books, so can not be such a surprise that they also hold 5,000 small textile scraps dating from the middle decades of the 18th Century that are pinned to registration documents. These scraps are both poignant and beautiful, yet sad as it reflects the life of a infant and a mother who had to give up her child. When mothers left babies at London’s Foundling Hospital in the mid-eighteenth century, the Hospital often retained a small token as a means of identification, usually a piece of fabric. These swatches of fabric now form Britain’s largest collection of everyday textiles from the eighteenth century. They include the whole range of fabrics worn by ordinary women, along with ribbons, embroidery and even some baby clothes. Beautiful and poignant, each scrap of material reflects the life of an infant child and that of its absent parent. The enthralling stories the fabrics tell about textiles, fashion, women’s skills, infant clothing and maternal emotion are the material of Threads of Feeling. The importance of the Foundling textiles – 5,000 rare, beautiful, mundane and moving scraps of fabric – lies in the fact that so few pieces of eighteenth-century clothing have otherwise survived that can be identified with any confidence as having belonged to the poor. Ordinary people’s clothes were worn and re-worn by a succession of owners until they fell into rags, or they were cut up and reused for quilts, baby clothes, and the like. If, by chance, they outlived the eighteenth century, they were unlikely to excite the attention of collectors or museums. The Foundling collection includes the whole range of textile fabrics worn by ordinary women – exposing a lost world of camblet and fustian, susy and cherryderry, calimanco and linsey-woolsey – along with ribbons, embroidery and even some baby clothes Along with scraps of fabric some parents left little tokens such as thimbles, lock and key, even a small ring as well as little token bits of metal with something engraved on. It must have been distressing to leave your child and the fact that they left it with something from their birth family showed, I think, that they cared but had no choice what so ever. Because of the very well kept records in a time when things were not recorded as they are now we also get an insight into fabrics of the time. Fabrics that belonged to everyday people and would by now have disappeared and we would have no knowledge of. A silk fringe: expensive flowered dress silk of around 1750 with a matching piece of fly braid. Foundling 2584 a little girl admitted 27 October 1756.......... Occasionally some children had some home embroidery or stitching attached to them which you can only assume that their birth mother had stitched. There were bits of patchwork, Dorset buttons, samplers Some of the identified stitches included satin stitch, chain stitch, crewel work and black work. The needlework was often a little crude on the decorative front among the foundling textiles and this suggests that the needle skills of the working women were not as good as once thought. They stitched for their family, clothes and bedding and they mended but obviously did not have the time or the money for the materials to produce decorative pieces just for show. Also they were taught weaving and knitting rather than stitching as it often this was better for work purposes later on. This is an embroidered sampler attached to foundling 14695, a little boy admitted on 6 December 1759. 'worckt with flowers' linen or cotton with flowers attached to foundling 14084 a little boy admitted 3 October 1759. I have bought a book on this subject called Threads of feeling by John Styles so that I can learn more about this sad but interesting subject. I have also done my homework on line to read all that I can. I have used images from google and these are I am sure images taken by the museum and for this outstanding book. I have enjoyed learning about the foundling tokens and with my love of vintage, fabrics and embroidery I have found it extremely interesting and extremely heart rendering.... I hope that you enjoy reading about this piece of history. If you would like to visit the museum the address is : 40 Brunswick Square London WC1N 1AZ Opening times Tue - Sat 10.00am until 5pm Tickets are £7.50 per adult ( there are concessions and children under a certain age go in for free) I myself will be making a visit to the museum in the next few weeks as this has touched my heart and taken a grip of my interest. A flowered silver ribbon with a paper sewn to it which reads. This silver ribbon is desired to be preserved as the Childs mark for distinction. Foundling 2275 a boy admitted 6 September 1756. Flowered all over with cards. cotton or linen printed with a playing card pattern. Foundling 14922 a boy admitted 24 December 1759. Foundling entry book! I will leave you with this last picture and a happier note. A patchwork needle case made from printed and woven fabrics, embroidered with a heart and the initials SC and cut in half. Foundling 16516 a boy admitted 11 February 1767. Christened Charles, but given the name Benjamin Twirl by the hospital. Reclaimed by his mother, Sarah Bender on 10 June 1775. HAPPY STITCHING!
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