tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68980764569749118772024-03-13T13:09:00.678+11:00FibrenellThe ramblings of a textile addict studying for City and Guilds level 3 Diploma 7923 Embroidery through Distant Stitch with Sian Martin, Urchfont College, UKFibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.comBlogger185125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-27199853173255853262016-12-12T23:04:00.000+11:002016-12-12T23:04:41.844+11:00Chapter 12 - Written illustrated essay<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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And finally, drum roll please....<br />
Here is the final chapter to Module 6 and the last posting of my Diploma<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">Stitch
in textile art – is it functional to the physical integrity of the artwork, or
purely decorative and thereby the definer of artistic quality?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">It is
not a question I had generally considered when viewing textile art; after all
it is not something that comes to mind looking at gallery paintings or
ceramics. The paint strokes clearly do
not hold the painting together or the glazes the clay, and yet they impart a
texture, a movement and an aesthetic to the work that is present in many
beautiful weavings borne out of functional stitches.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">The
weaving and coiling of Indigenous Australian artists researched during my last
diploma module of work are clearly functional in their creation of vessels from
grasses, but also highly decorative in stitch technique and adornment. (Figure 1)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">This
fibre art enables the artists to express their culture and interest in their
local habitat in the form of highly tactile sculptures. They have a drive to create in this way, and
a desire to continue the creation by passing on traditional skills to the next
generation. This passion led me to think
of three British textile artists whose works exude their enthusiasm for stitch
and inspire me to express myself in textiles: <b>Jan Beaney, Sue Hotchkis </b>and<b>
Alice Kettle.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">Jan
Beaney is a renowned embroiderer, teacher, author and exhibitor in the UK and
worldwide. She can employ mixed media,
paint, beading and other contemporary materials into her work as the subject
demands, but always with hand and machine embroidery as the principal
players. Like the Indigenous artists, she
finds inspiration in the landscape around her and beauty in the mundane and
everyday details. The focus of
indigenous art is often the locale and activities surrounding the artists. Their fibre sculptures may be simplified to
the point of schematic but the source of their design lies in local wildlife
and vegetation. Jan may not be using
tangible vegetation in her work but her design sources lie similarly close at
hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">Over
recent years she has used a water-soluble material on which to stitch, connecting
fragments such as fabric scraps and wool roving through hand and machine stitch. Once the fabric is washed away a complete new
“cloth” remains on which further stitching can be done. This is clearly a situation where stitch is
both functional to the created cloth and decorative. The combination of hand and free machine
stitch gives a wonderful texture and depth to the work. Hand embroidery in various weights of thread
and wool, and in different type and size gives tremendous detail in layers of stitching. Free machine embroidery then integrates and
embeds the stitches, blending colour and its movement within the piece.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">Whether
her work is densely layered (Figure 2) or translucent to the point of extreme fragility
(Figure 3), the compositional thought involved and skilled execution is always
there and entices one to look ever closer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">I love
the way Jan blends and layers large bold hand stitches in thick wools with
fragments of scrim material and wool roving (Figures 4 and 5). It appears too great a contrast up close but
simply gives enough texture interest when one steps back. I have learned from this to continually stop
and view ones work from a distance.
Fresh eyes from a different perspective are the key to self-critiquing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wish to entice the audience to look closer that I also endeavour to reach, and
therefore it is not surprising that her use of hand and machine embroidery has
been influential in my work. In <i>Lichen</i>, I sought to bring detail and
texture to dimensional nunofelting with significant hand embroidery in
different weights of wool and pearlised cotton (Figure 6).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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researching <i>Lichen</i> I came across a
recent textile of the same name by Sue Hotchkis, a UK artist now living in
Guernsey. I had seen glimpses of her
work over the last few years, glimpses of amazing layered texture, freely
embroidered but only this year had the opportunity to discuss her work with her,
first hand, while she was solo exhibiting in <i>Fragments</i> in Australia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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too is drawn visually to the details of living, drawn to photograph the torn
posters, the rust and wear, the detritus of modern life. She sees beauty in the
detail that is often missed on first glance.
Her inspiration and subject
matter may be far from exciting in name but once they abstractly transform into
such jewelled fragments of stitched detail, they come alive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">She
employs digital printing, screen printing, paper lamination, trapunto, free
machine embroidery to name but a few contemporary techniques, building and disintegrating
layers and fragments (as her exhibition was so aptly named) into detailed sculptural
hangings (Figures 7 and 8)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Figure 7: <i style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: left;">Door </i><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: left;">detail Sue Hotchkis</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: left;"> </span></td></tr>
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stitching is functional, combining layers and fragments into a cohesive
hanging, but of course it is also highly decorative.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;">Without her extensive embroidery much surface
detail and sculptural manipulation would be lost and the fragment cohesion
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">She
describes her stitching process as meditative. She becomes almost lost in the rhythm
of machine stitching, merging fragments and creating texture, reminding me of
the repetitive weaving involved in Indigenous fibre art. Such dedication to the process is apparent;
never invisible to the close examiner. I
also see the employment of new technologies such as digital printing which are
at hand to the contemporary textile artist, an extension to the materials at
hand to the Indigenous artist. The
techniques may have changed but the opportunistic approach to available
resources has not. I love her striking
use of colour, particularly her combinations of complementary colours as in <i>Verdigris (Figure 9)</i>, and the tonal
variations within pieces, such as <i>Embrace
(</i>Figures 10 and 11), <i>giving</i> them
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Figure 9: <i style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: left;"> Verdigris </i><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: left;">detail Sue Hotchkis</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: left;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Figure 10: <i style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: left;">Embrace </i><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: left;">detail</span><i style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: left;"> </i><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: left;">Sue Hotchkis</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;">In the past Sue had tried to make her work conform to perceived standards of hangings, e.g. straight-edged and two dimensional, but her recent organically shaped and distinctly sculptural pieces give her freedom and pleasure. They evolve during their creation and have a life of their own. Her adherence to perceived guidelines resonated with my own reluctance to contain the organic nature of wool felting and to embrace the artistically sculptural nature of that material as in </span><i style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;">Loedhas </i><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;">(Figure 12). I applaud Sue’s mantra of being true to herself, confident in her own work and in her art practice while striving to develop further. </span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: left;">Figure 12: </span><i style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: left;">Loedhas </i><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: left;">Helen MacRitchie</span></td></tr>
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UK textile artist who has found her own medium in which to express her art
practice is Alice Kettle. Alice is
currently Professor in Textile Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University
having studied fine art as an undergraduate working in abstract expressionism,
and then pursuing textile art as a postgraduate. She has established a unique position in the
fibre arts field creating heavily stitched wall hangings, using extensive free
machine embroidery and layering threads of different weights and thicknesses on
a cloth background. She often chooses
as inspiring subject matter, historical characters and tales, mythological
stories, and figurative representations.
In her pictorial pieces, there is rarely a literal connection to her
theme, more often a symbolic one. This
is reminiscent of the markings found in Indigenous art e.g. circles representing
homesteads or gatherings, meandering lines as rivers, movement or animals. Their
culturally important people and story creatures are represented symbolically in
their fibre sculptures. In <i>Alice
Kyteler</i> (Figure 13) the central figure may indeed be the old woman of that
name but Alice gives her a sense of regal majesty inferring her power and
strength of character through the adornment of her skirt in textile ephemera and
her compositional placing in lightness with metallic threads.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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briefly studied Alice in a previous module of diploma work, but since then I
have examined some of her commissioned installations more closely and had the
opportunity to hear her speak in conference about her work. I did not fully appreciate before her
painterly approach to her work. She expresses her love of the physical nature
of paint, the gestural nature of mark making, and her desire to translate her
fingerprint in painting into textiles.
She layers threads in her stitching to convey the fluidity of painting
strokes, playing with threads of different colour, thickness and shine. Different qualities in light reflection are
achieved by layering glossy and matt threads, which let the viewer “go into”
the surface of the threads. She tries to
“float” a matt thread over areas of metallic to give depth and alter the light
resonance between threads. I am
fortunate enough to own a textile <i>Daniel
and the Lioness </i>(Figure 14)<i>,</i> by
Alice Kettle, and can appreciate this effect at first hand – aspects of the
surface appear differently coloured and reflected as you move past in different
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fascinating detail is there on close examination but the joy is apparent when
you step back. It then becomes less
about the individual stitches and more about the movement and light conveyed
across the whole textile. It could be
said that each stitch is decorative but I feel they are not to be admired in
isolation – rather they exist ‘en masse’, creating a fluidity of colour and gesture
true to Alice Kettle. In that sense they
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making through stitch takes many forms: functional and decorative. My study of
these three artists for whom mark making has great affinity, has shown me that be it in the creation of soft textural
colour blends, the effect of abstract paint strokes, or organic sculptural
detail, stitched textiles are a feast for the eyes and an inspiration to us
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">Jan
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published by Double-Trouble, UK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">Jan
Beaney and Jean Littlejohn (1998) <i>Stitch
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25 March<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">Embroidery</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";"> magazine (2016), Jan/Feb
issue, <i>Craft, Credo & Collaboraton</i>,
pp28-33<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">Carol
Shinn (2009), <i>Freestyle Machine
Embroidery</i>, published by Interweave Press USA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">Diana
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;">www.textileartist.org/<b>susan</b>-<b>hotchkis</b>-conception-creation/<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-70961973295588829112016-12-12T21:18:00.000+11:002016-12-12T21:18:12.748+11:00And the penultimate post......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here for authentication purposes is me with various pieces completed in chapters 9 and 10 of Diploma Module 6.<br />
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-50512124693664952222016-12-12T21:14:00.002+11:002016-12-12T21:14:09.898+11:00Life after PAP4: Sterculia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The end is in sight as they say, so here are the details of self-assessment for my 4th Personal Assessment piece <i style="font-weight: bold;">Sterculia</i> completed about a year ago:<br />
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<b>Evaluation</b>: The piece was hung from a clear perspex rod (10mm diam) so as to minimize the visual impact of a pole against the wall and not detract from the work. The flexibility of the rod successfully enabled the piece to follow the curvature of the wall, and not impede the flow of traffic through that area.<br />
The rod was attached to the wall using 3 clear "command" hooks and strips.<br />
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All my previous photography of the work was taken against a white backdrop so I was anxious to see how the piece appeared against this darker wall. I acknowledge that the brown and green colours merge into the background a little more as I suspected they would, but the 'floral' motifs in yellow are now brighter and focal to the piece. The fluorescent lighting adds to this.<br />
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Design changes? I would like to pursue my idea to hang several overlapping layers distinctly apart but I think a site with an open void might have been better suited to that. I could have gone bigger of course, making a feature of the curved wall and creating a hanging twice as wide, but overall I am pleased with the result.<br />
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<b>Time taken to produce</b>: </div>
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<li>to prepare and felt the final 2 layers of lace felt - 13 hours</li>
<li>to prepare the sheer and felted motifs with shisha mirrors - 9 hours</li>
<li>to attach and free machine embroider - 5 hours</li>
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total time - 27 hours</div>
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<li>merino wool roving (approx 500g) - $4</li>
<li>landscape dyes (approx 10g) - $12</li>
<li>shisha mirrors - $8</li>
<li>polyester sheer fabric (approx 1m) - $10</li>
<li>wool yarns, crochet cottons - $7</li>
<li>embroidery thread, machine and hand - $12</li>
<li>perspex rod - $16</li>
<li>resist foam and plastic sheeting for felting - $3</li>
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total cost - $72</div>
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<li>dyeing of wool roving, wool yarns, cotton yarns</li>
<li>laying out dyed yarns and wool roving in lattice formation for felting</li>
<li>felting of lattice layers</li>
<li>felting shisha mirrors into wool, drying, cutting out paisley pattern motifs from felt and free machine embroidering</li>
<li>drawing out motifs on water soluble fabric, stitching motifs through sheers, dissolving fabric, drying then cutting out motifs using soldering iron.</li>
<li>attaching motifs to lattice by hand stitching</li>
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<b>Particular health and safety issues</b>:</div>
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<li><b>acid dyes </b>- powdered dye kept in sealed pots within sealed container out of reach of children in dedicated dyeing room. Mask and gloves worn when measuring out into jar. Care taken in adding hot water, making solution of dye. Be aware of steam in urn when adding dye solution or wool roving / yarn. All utensils used only for dyeing procedure.</li>
<li><b>felting</b> - work on raised table to minimize strain on back, mop up any water spills on floor around working area</li>
<li><b>shisha mirror</b> motifs - be aware of cut mirror edges within felt when free machining felt motifs, wear glasses for protection against broken needles</li>
<li><b>soldering iron</b> - work in well ventilated room, preferably next to open window, leave hot iron held in upturned flower pot when not in use, always remember to pull out plug after use.</li>
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Since completing the work I have had the opportunity to exhibit it a couple of times - once at <a href="http://www.artsandcraftsnsw.com.au/">Craft NSW</a>, Sydney (Oct 2015) and once as part of <i>Out of Hand </i>contemporary textile exhibition at Wallarobba Cultural Arts Centre, Hornsby<i> </i>(Nov 2015)as part of <b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/untethered.exhibition.group">Untethered </a></b>fibre artists. </div>
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At the Craft NSW Gallery I was able to hang the piece on 2 perspex rods slightly staggered apart which was an interesting change.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Sterculia</i> at Craft NSW, the Rocks, Sydney</td></tr>
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And at Wallarobba Cultural Arts Centre it was hung at the turn of the stairs up to more gallery rooms. This allowed visitors had the opportunity to view it from the side as they passed by.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Sterculia</i>, part of <i>Out of Hand</i>, at Wallarobba Cultural Arts Centre, Hornsby</td></tr>
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-15679166951178449632016-12-09T16:30:00.003+11:002016-12-09T16:30:54.206+11:00Fibrecraft of Indigenous Australia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;"> </span>In Australia and the Torres Strait Islands, the indigenous
people have traditionally made objects with everyday functions using the
materials to hand, recycled from animal and plant fibres such as tree bark,
hair, palm fronds and grasses. In combination,
these natural fibres have created clothing, shelter, shades, fishing nets,
sieves, canoe sails as well as bags and baskets.</div>
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<b>String</b> bags were
made for food gathering, to carry and store food and personal items and
tools. They are often called <b>Dilly </b>bags, thought to originate from
the Turrbal word <i>dili </i>but there are
many other names given to them depending on their place of origin. They are usually oval in shape, collapsible for
ease of storage, with a twined string or cord for slinging around the carrier’s
neck. Grasses or roots are twined to
make the string needed to stitch or weave the bag. The bags are identifiable by the type of
stitch used to make them, usually knots with or without loops or twists, to
create an open structure of great strength.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1.1: Dilly bag made from grasses and kurrajong bark, maker unknown, acquired 1898, by Australian Museum Sydney</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1.2: Detail of knotting in large string bag (<i>Wurra-wurra</i>) made from bark fibre cord, ochre pigment, maker unknown, acquired 1895 by Australian Museum, Sydney</td></tr>
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The continuation of the craft technique through sharing and
collaboration is very important in Australia, but with respect to the
indigenous culture the teaching of Dilly bags generally remains with the indigenous
people rather than the greater contemporary basket making community.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In <b>coiled</b> baskets, a foundation coil is made from a bundle
of flexible stick fibres or grasses, over which a working strand of fibre makes
a series of buttonhole stitches to cover the bundle core. This core is tightly coiled, spiralling
outwards and upwards in the case of a basket, with the buttonhole stitches wrapping
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1.3: A small coiled basket with handle made using Pandanus fibre from South Australia, maker unknown, acquired 1958 by Australian Museum</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1.4: Coiled bag with purse lip opening, plant fibre, Victoria, maker unknown, acquired 1900 by Australian Museum</td></tr>
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fibres or split leaves form the WARP, and 2 or sometimes 3 working fibre
strands for the WEFT set interlacing and interlinking with the warp
bundles. Pandanus and palm fronds are incorporated
in this way. The pandanus plants are
easily propagated and are resilient to adverse environmental conditions making
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1.5: Bicornual basket (referring to the two horns on the lower corners) from split canes, southern rainforests of Queensland, maker unknown, acquired by Australian Museum, Sydney</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1.6: Twined grass and Pandanus basket with ochres from Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, maker unknown, acquired by Australian Museum</td></tr>
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Not all Aboriginal fibre work is for everyday use, of
course. The same techniques are used
with natural fibres in elaborate ceremonial objects and for body adornment,
often incorporating feathers, eg. parrot, lorikeet or emu feathers. The finished articles can be beautifully
painted with naturally occurring yellow and red ochre pigments.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1. 8:Ceremonial headdress made from paperbark and human-hair string and decorated with emu feathers and ochres (photo courtesy of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney website</td></tr>
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Armed with the experience and skill to make beautifully crafted
functional items, many Aboriginal people have gone on to create more innovative
sculptural fibre work through art movements established in the central desert
regions such as Ernabella.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was fortunate enough recently to view an exhibition in the
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, given by the artists of the Anangu
Pitjantjatjara Yankunyjatjara (APY) Lands of Central Australia. The APY Lands are vast, covering over 10% of
South Australia near the tri-state border with the Northern Territory and
Western Australia. The APY art movement
originates from the art centre at Ernabella established in 1948, making it the
oldest continuously running indigenous art centre in Australia.</div>
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The exhibition, entitled <i><b>Nganampa
Kililpil,</b></i> brought together more than 100 artists from across the Lands,
sharing unique cultural and artistic traditions. One collaborative sculptural fibre art installation,
<b><i>Punu Kutjara </i>(Two Trees)</b>, was created
by 38 weavers and helpers and reflects the vast and abundant country through
the depiction of two trees surrounded by many animals, birds and insects. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1.9: <b style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i>Punu Kutjara</i></b><b> (Two Trees) </b>in Hazelhurst Gallery</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1.10: One of the Trees from <b><i>Punu Kutjara</i></b></td></tr>
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The sculptures are prepared using traditional
knotting, wrapping and weaving techniques with local grasses (<i>Kutanu, wangunu </i>and<i> tjanpi</i>) found in the local rockpools, creeks, gullies and
claypans. All these places are deemed
sacred and life-giving to the <i>Tjanpi</i>
weavers. The weaving incorporates raffia
and plastic string recycled from modern life bringing vibrancy and colour into
the installation.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1.11: Detail of weaving in <span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i><b>Punu Kutjara </b>sculptural fibre animals</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> 1.12: Detail of weaving with raffia and plastic string in <span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i><b>Punu Kutjara </b>sculptural fibre animals</i></span></td></tr>
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All the sculptures are
models of ancestral spirits; every animal is a <i>dreaming</i> subject which lives on through the creativity of many
generations of women. In this way the
desert women can express their cultural heritage in an artistic medium that
suits their lifestyle.<o:p></o:p></div>
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All photos have been taken by me except 1.8.</div>
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<b>References</b>:<o:p></o:p></div>
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1. Keller, Christine (2010) Craft and Design Inquiry, issue 2, <i>From Baskets to Bodies: Innovation from
Aboriginal Fibre Practice<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>2. Nganampa Kililpil: Our
Stars</i> (2016) Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, NSW, Australia<o:p></o:p></div>
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3. Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>4. Tjanpi </i>Desert Weavers (2011), Macmillian Mini-art Series no.19, Macmillan Art Publishing, Australia</div>
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5. <a href="http://www.australianmuseum.net.au/Indigenous_Australia_Cultural_Heritage">www.australianmuseum.net.au/Indigenous_Australia_Cultural_Heritage</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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6. <a href="http://www.janesoceania.com/australia_aboriginal_fibrecraft/">www.janesoceania.com/australia_aboriginal_fibrecraft/</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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7. <a href="http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/explore/intertwined#coil-stitch">www.museum.wa.gov.au/explore/intertwined#coil-stitch</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">8. <a href="http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/recoil_change_and_exchange_in_coiled_fibre_art/">www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/recoil_change_and_exchange_in_coiled_fibre_art/</a></span></div>
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-41491738702957585992016-07-20T16:08:00.002+10:002016-07-21T21:17:58.173+10:00And finally the totem.....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I liked the design of my totem silhouette piece in <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWlalMAMrU80aOYOFtFeUXriB3oM29wg_OzzMQW-OMO18OL_9gkByPtMnzHHe3L4HcYwrMcLAUNwXw9oUFCZ-wAGteFDxFQLSJS5TqIRLpfYFBimXUNP4SmmNlI1upPKnAh6NoaS7qTu4/s1600/P1090217.JPG">10.4</a> but wanted the colours to be more akin to the Aboriginal research of my module so I used a cream woven linen as the background and bonded cut chiffons and organzas on to that. It measured 20cm by 45cm and was backed by bonding to a stiff batting 2mm thick to support its own weight.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.8: Totem background of linen weave with bonded sheer fabric shapes</td></tr>
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I then free machined seed stitching in white to emphasise the edges<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.9: <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Totem background of linen weave with bonded sheer fabric shapes and free machining</span></td></tr>
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I wanted to add dimensional shapes to the background similarly to those in <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMKZhcTEnrhmY_bDozeHXFCJObdGKsT1d9VHhh4BRaPunNR5YxxK822Fuvraeiu_TE-xrmuCjV-qwIAwNquejPhMJjwPoe1sfg2-KEyELPbscb_9etdD7huslk6ha1K-7Tf9MSPLxHh6M/s1600/P1090222.JPG">10.7</a> where thick batting was sandwiched between fabric on either side by bonding. The fabric here was recycled teabags and yarn covered by sheer organzas - white on one side and back on the other. I wanted the shapes to be reversible.<br />
I simplified the motif slightly, edged them with machine stitching and wrapped each with linen twine to recreate Aboriginal stripe markings. Each shape is approx 8cm by 6cm.<br />
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As this was my last practical piece for the diploma (sob!) I felt this totem should be a retrospective of my work in the 6 modules so each shape has hanging detail representative of a particular module:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: left;">10.10a: totem motifs (l to r) gumnut and bark - Vegetation theme research in Module 1,<br />coiled metal wire bead - Metal in Module 2,<br />folded braiding - Strapwork in Module 3</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">10.10b: totem motifs (l to r) cardboard motif - Slipwork in Module 4,<br />
laminated lace - Transparentcy and lace in Module 5,<br />
shrunck plastic gumnut - recycled materials in Module 6</td></tr>
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Each shape had a 'hook' in the outline to enable it to remain attached to the background when inserted through a cut slit (like a self supported hanging shelf).<br />
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The background was formed into a tube and the whole totem can be seen in 10.11 with the shapes attached.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.12 Totem resolved</td></tr>
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Some other shots of the tubular totem -<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.14</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.15 Back of the totem showing reverse of the shapes</td></tr>
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I also rather liked the totem flattened out as a wall piece (10.16), since the motifs still protrude slightly into the room at an angle and the background pattern is more apparent.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.16</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.17</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.18</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.19</td></tr>
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-71076458820880515342016-07-20T16:08:00.001+10:002016-07-20T16:09:45.290+10:00Resolved bonding<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
After the experimentation of the last chapter using fusible webbing I looked back at my totem designs with a view to developing them in fabric using bonding techniques. <br />
I had tried to create a totem by hanging gumnut shapes but the individual shapes were rather indisinct.<br />
I tried to resolve this by giving each shape a discrete border but didn't seem to help. I preferred the silhouette and so developed this as a stencil.<br />
Stacking vertical slices of this produced an interesting pattern that could be used in the future.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtW_h19nVryFblSTOi48sB5xdshhu2-J4RCnMSNnsv8zlp6pkjuMpNOX9sNsvuqLvmj_kM4Nt46iCnsZdJhm66WlXz5A1PYFPVYUFdRfUSOkugTM7E5Z1Ns82SLf4MWy-cll7TzoCGfJU/s1600/totem1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtW_h19nVryFblSTOi48sB5xdshhu2-J4RCnMSNnsv8zlp6pkjuMpNOX9sNsvuqLvmj_kM4Nt46iCnsZdJhm66WlXz5A1PYFPVYUFdRfUSOkugTM7E5Z1Ns82SLf4MWy-cll7TzoCGfJU/s200/totem1.jpg" width="62" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.1 totem design</td></tr>
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This design was my inspiration for the two samples (A4 size in 10.2 and 10.4)) to follow.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.2 Scraps of typed paper and cut threads, fibres were bonded on to white interfacing, and a white sheer bonded on top. The totem silhouettes were cut from this sandwich and placed on dyed black cloth. Strips of white, red and green sheer were stitched on top then heat gunned back.<br />
Further whip stitch on top to integrate.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.3 Close-up of above</td></tr>
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I liked the texture created here but not a good representation of the design.<br />
My second sample was simpler but more effective I felt<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.4: Silhouettes cut from white and red sheer organzas and bonded on to background. Free motion embroidery on top to define the edges and add to tonal shading</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.5: Close up of above 10.4</td></tr>
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For my last resolved sample I went back to the design edited in <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL5vSDoZTEdmr8lK6k3dQrWsZvFQ7b_JDvCpn5wAn3TGUu0UFv41Xlr7pcdUSqWCzOoA7lY6pIKhCCTCfg7oIf9RX2Hy1UgVvm9S3-aHk5UY9Rl2ItGwZgrwi25GhSb_swe4cQo5C4RZE/s1600/P1090198.JPG">8.11</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.6: On background - bonded shapes cut from white sheer organza, and cut strips of fusible web sandwich of red fibres. Bobbin cording in red to highlight large shapes. Pink shapes were cut from bonded sandwich of batting, scraps and red chiffon, edge finished and lightly bonded to background.<br />
Free machine stitching in grey and black over dimensional shapes to integrate them. Whipstitch on background to give speckled white marking of monoprinting.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.7 Close-up of 10.6 above</td></tr>
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-5328574553000598722016-07-19T17:33:00.002+10:002016-07-19T17:33:53.055+10:00Bonded layers - chapter 9<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This chapter's experimentation and samples centred around using bonding transfer adhesives (eg Vliesofix, Bondaweb etc the name depending on where you are in the world) and bonding powder to layer up translucent and lacy sheer fabrics in interesting ways.<br />
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With my Australian ethnic research of this module in mind I prepared some unconventional 'fabrics' by bonding fibrous scraps to Vliesofix sheets (approx A4 size)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">9.1: Scraps of dyed hessian on one layer of web</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">9.2 Yarn scraps on one layer of web</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">9.3: Torn used teabags and crushed egg shells between 2 layers of web</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">9.4: scraps of muslin and raffia strips between 2 layers of web</td></tr>
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These were then torn / cut up and bonded onto new backgrounds with further stitching to create samples related to my previous research eg<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1DZHe0hSQhb8he-k8XItT4oBR71f-Eu6e_VJoTSdgo44-3g4l-KThWGceUz9YPrPvVV2_jWAXrNZRIf3czS51SDbFzTHFJ9rIGu9p5uAIVEmP9C-YuUwQdcW8xS8Z5r_vFKfLd5tp3x0/s1600/photo4.22.jpg" target="_blank"> 4.22</a> and <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIihB7uG9jCpyDvK1sOELI1hkN5eFZrsASW2pdA2R6TuACuy-OYJ8Ewr0Qt902yV_IHIis66gJKJ0pCazMfJUZVvrIkoWiHZsZwACnUYtOrr0CQh8X-0VLjhb6zwYVMe4umSFQRLYKPsw/s1600/photo4.23.jpg">4.23</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">9.5: Wide strips cut from 9.1 bonded on to permanganate dyed cotton background. Covered with red sheer, bonded, zapped with heat gun, then stitched in black couching cords</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">9.6: Close up of 9.5</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">9.7: Lines of stitching made on black sheer covering yellow background then burned back with heat gun. Squares of 'fabric' (in 9.3) using teabags and eggshells cut and bonded then shape emphasised with surface stitching</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">9.8: Close up of 9.7</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">9.9: Torn pieces of webbing 'fabric' from both 9.2 and 9.4 were bonded onto a cotton backing. Strips of Tyvek which had been <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSJiKPaVPoXwIkNRk_hmzY-mrQfHMZoefsgX5WyMfNR6BXlsgBaAgXGWe_NlmtTxA8DqEIqqAp4fKyS0dskMFvOp5LLIPvxBVeOBc4L0CwMuKeb5sX-RJJ6L8kt4DFdCflf9leJQ48XsA/s1600/tyvek1.JPG">rusted</a> were stitched down and distorted using a heat gun to resemble curling bark</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">9.10: Close-up of 9.9 above</td></tr>
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-14721597846112637472016-07-18T22:12:00.001+10:002016-07-18T22:14:03.363+10:00Plastic bonding - chapter 8<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This chapter looked at making material surfaces by bonding plastic together, so I collected various plastic bags in preparation It has to be said that in Sydney the selection is not great as admirably the stores are cutting back on plastic wastage and often provide paper or "decomposable" plastic bags which don't bond as well I find. I had to resort to using bags I acquired in the UK recently or decorating grey or white bags. <br />
Various fusing ideas tried using the heat of an iron under baking paper. These samples are all about A4 page size unless otherwise stated:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8.1: Bonded cut plastic bag pieces</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8.2: Trapping strips of white bag plastic with a thin freezer bag, machine stitching randomly then bonding under iron heat, while stretching to create holes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8.3: Knitted strips of freezer bag, threading strips of thicker bag plastic through knitting, then fusing under iron.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8.4: Knitting freezer bag strips as above then threading yarn and fabric strips before fusing</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8.5: Torn used teabags wrapped in freezer bag strips, overlapped and then fused (approx A6 size)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">8.6: Machine stitching in white on green garden bag, fused lightly, then crushed and refused so that areas of stitching disappear in the folds. Once fused flat, the stitching looks broken and sporadic </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8.7: Strips cut from 8.6 above and re-fused onto another contrasting plastic collage background. After fusing further bobbin stitching in white Perle 5 thread.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8.8: Shapes cut from collage fused plastic and fused on to garden plastic background. Lines of green machine stitching and white bobbin stitching to integrate</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8.9: Remaining negative collaged plastic after shapes cut out for 8.8, fused on to a new dark background.<br />
Satin stitched bars sewn in white and yellow after fusing to echo the markings on plastic</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8.10: detail of 8.9</td></tr>
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My resolved samples referenced designs made in <a href="http://fibrenell.blogspot.com.au/2016/01/design-from-ethnic-source-chapter-4-cont.html" target="_blank">here </a>in chapter 4. However I made some changes to those in designs 4.17-4.21 to integrate the applied shapes a little more in to the background:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8.11: design on recycled black paper with monoprinting and applied torn motifs. The motifs have been rubbed over with oil pastel to integrate them with the background.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8.12: the resolved sample from design in 8.11 using fused monoprinted plastic, fused sheers on top and surface bobbin stitching to emphasize the shapes.</td></tr>
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I did a second resolved sample (8.14) based on the design in 8.13 below:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8.13: monoprinting on recycled black paper with applied torn motif</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8.14: <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">the resolved sample from design in 8.13 using fused monoprinted plastic, fused sheers on top and surface bobbin stitching to emphasize the shapes.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8.15: detail of 8.14 sample above</td></tr>
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Although cutting and stitching plastics didn't really appeal to me, I did enjoy the effect created by fusing pieces into one layer, losing edges and creating a new 'cloth'.<br />
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-58549351764849964692016-01-26T20:40:00.000+11:002016-01-26T20:40:06.624+11:00Quillwork - chapt 7<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When I had briefly glanced at this chapter initially I thought quilling had been done by inserting the flattened porcupine quills under the back stitches first made. When I came to read up about it I found of course that the quills are sewn in and folded <b>as</b> the back stitches are made. This allows the zig zag patterning to be closer and overlap. <br />
I had great fun studying various U-tube videos (as you do of course) on quillwork covering the traditional zig zag patterning, edging of stitched leatherwork, and linework, and decided to make some samples by the traditional method of backstitching by hand as the quills are laid.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">7.1: Quillwork with various materials</td></tr>
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Photo 7.1 shows various strip materials on permanganate dyed cotton -<br />
(top row) discarded cleaning cloths, swimming pool salt bag (like tyvek)<br />
(2nd row) swede leather, embroidered homespun<br />
(3rd row) clear acetate, dried teabag seams<br />
(bottom row) shaped band using swede leather strips<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">7.2: detail of quillwork samples</td></tr>
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References:<br />
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<b style="text-align: -webkit-center;">NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art </b>www.nativetech.org/quill<br />
<b>Lacota Quillwork - art and legend </b>www.stjo.org/<br />
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-60119706874300467352016-01-25T21:33:00.001+11:002016-01-25T21:45:58.365+11:00Beads galore - chapt 6<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This chapter looks at making collections of <b>beads </b>- found and created by various means.<br />
I began by 'finding' small items that could be described as beads in that they could be threaded or attached in some way to create or embellish a surface.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.1: Found items (clockwise spiral from top left) - bread ties, cut negatives, leaf and round sequins, plastic press studs, curtain hooks, collar extenders, small pegs, plastic paperclip, decorative metal paperclips</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.2: Metal found items (l ti r) - washers, key, eyelets, magnetic bag clasp backs</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.3: Vegetation found items (l to r) - gumnuts, bark pods</td></tr>
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<b>Paper pulp beads</b><br />
Made some paper pulp from discarded computer paper printouts using a hand blender and used this to prepare some beads.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.4: Paper pulp beads</td></tr>
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These beads were formed around a knitting needle - round, rods, and some separately - 'gumnut' and flat button shapes. I tried to emboss the surface of the button shapes using a ridged grip (for opening bottles) and a pasta scoop as shown in 6.5<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.5 Paper pulp buttons detail</td></tr>
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I left these to dry then painted them with metallic acrylics, gilding and wrapped some in threads.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.6 painted pulp beads</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.7 painted pulp beads - detail</td></tr>
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<b>Shrink plastic beads</b><br />
Next, I painted some shrink plastic (3 types - matte translucent, white gloss, and clear) ready for beads.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.7 Flow acrylics on shrink plastic (from top to bottom) - matte translucent, white gloss, and clear</td></tr>
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These pieces are obviously before any shrinking; each piece is about 7cm by 20cm. I've put a piece of white paper behind the painted clear plastic to illustrate the transparency. I painted both sides and the reverse side is shown below in 6.8.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.8 Painted shrink plastic (reverse side shown in 6.7)</td></tr>
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I cut various shapes and sizes from these including the shapes from <a href="http://fibrenell.blogspot.com.au/2016/01/design-from-ethnic-source-chapter-4-cont.html" target="_blank">chapter 4</a> and <a href="http://fibrenell.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/design-from-ethnic-source.html" target="_blank">here</a> then used a heat gun to shrink them down by about 50%.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.9 Shapes cut from painted shrink plastic (<b>pre</b>-shrinking)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.10 Shrink plastic shapes <b>after </b>shrinking</td></tr>
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I found that retaining the shape of some that were quite intricately cut was difficult when the heat gun tended to blow them away - maybe use the oven next time. However I particularly liked the clear plastic motifs (shown on black in 6.11 to highlight the holes precut in them).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.11 More shrink plastic 'beads' <b>after </b>shrinking</td></tr>
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<b>Toggle beads</b><br />
Some rolled beads were made using various polyester sheer fabrics - 2 layers bonded together with vliesofix webbing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.12a Fabric toggle beads</td></tr>
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The ends the fabric strips were stuck down using the tip of an iron. These are about 2 to 2.5cm long.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.12b fabric togggle beads in detail</td></tr>
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Some of these were further decorated by wrapping in embroidered kunin felt and heat gunned (6.13), by burning with a soldering iron tip (6.14) and by wrapping in fine wire, rolling in puff paint, heating and surface painting with metallic acrylics (6.15).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.13 fabric beads <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">decorated with burnt felt</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.14 soldered fabric beads</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBNf-gAsOFkIPaumuk0UVfheRKu81cPmM6OY91ilfLRqsCAxzn2KPhpmJWI735pIuukUtu5A-82BUIb3gYMtrzTAZyHSMOlb0jjiZYpsDqz8KgCFfvHCjIrWmOQaWME6L-z1ELeUfVKp0/s1600/P1090082.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBNf-gAsOFkIPaumuk0UVfheRKu81cPmM6OY91ilfLRqsCAxzn2KPhpmJWI735pIuukUtu5A-82BUIb3gYMtrzTAZyHSMOlb0jjiZYpsDqz8KgCFfvHCjIrWmOQaWME6L-z1ELeUfVKp0/s320/P1090082.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.15 wire wrapped and painted fabric beads</td></tr>
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<b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIK2VmTPNLeL5323NG7AFb_O5lTwZMZoKv1FTsVtsTSySoinF2frjlilGjMAIBoHBLqCOXyMf8n_Z0iLx50PHSHcVteXXl107kYv5aJsyjtalmCHdDwdQRDDMAyio2Lm2MNGWVMUY9NPo/s1600/P1090080.JPG" imageanchor="1"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4_2leO8_O6K3PfeWcD7mKezBghEK1rc0GdGI9CGi2puVWq8M7Y9MD9tmgVgGOJkqLdGmDDk-9u8JiKh0ct9q-6eV993oUTG8UpRpyCo82uHmCIGw96zZoS94eGopi4b5fFgGttkObl30/s1600/P1090083.JPG" imageanchor="1"></a>Stitching and Threading</b><br />
I recycled some wooden beads from an op-shop bag and used them to embellished some jute string crochet in 6.16, photographed on pot permanganate dyed cotton.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.16 embellished jute crochet</td></tr>
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The same beads were threaded with other seed beads to mimic the wave patterns of indigenous painting (6.17).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.17 threaded beads on raffia lace background</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.18 painted shrink beads attached</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.19: Painted shrink beads in shape off gumnuts thread through jute twine and interlaced with 'leaf lace' background from chapt 2.</td></tr>
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<b>Loom Weaving</b><br />
I used a small commercial bead loom for this part as I'd not had much luck in the past with keeping the warp threads taut enough in my 'homemade' box and string efforts. I was still not looking forward to it and as expected it took me hours to complete even a small length. On retrospect, it would have been much easier had I not used cheap beads that were subtly irregular in size - note to self, false economy!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">6.20: bead weaving</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.21 Weaving on loom with design</td></tr>
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I used seed beads and drew a pattern up based on my little boomerang shape<br />
So here is my weaving (approx 2cm wide by 13.5cm long) photographed on a couple of related backgrounds.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.22</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6.23</td></tr>
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-6048977438267166232016-01-21T12:07:00.000+11:002018-03-02T02:37:50.716+11:00Exhibition overload but it was wonderful!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In December I was fortunate again to get back to London for 2 weeks; the timing really for husband's work and to meet up with family but I did manage to 'cram' in a number of exhibitions. I'm mentioning them here in a post more to remind myself rather than to critique them in any great depth.<br />
I started another sketchbook on my travels and I've included some photos of pages where I could not photograph.<br />
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<b>Ai Weiwei</b>'s work at the <b>Royal Academy</b> was great to see from his marble grass and pushchair to his bicycle chandelier. Despite being packed out the day we visited, everyone was very quiet and subdued as they walked around his pieces. I loved the settings chosen for his work particularly the chandelier and stacked rods. When we left Sydney he was in the news there receiving donations for the contentious lego block installations but I believe the chandelier will also feature, so it will be interesting to see this in a new location.<br />
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"The <b>Fabric of India</b>" exhibition at the <b>V&A</b> was wonderful - a major overload of pink, gold and orange.<br />
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Couldn't take photos but made so many notes of traditional patterns and dyeing/ weaving techniques, and of contemporary Indian designers to check up later.<br />
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At the <b>Tate Modern</b> I took in the <b>Alexander Calder</b> exhibition from his wire portraits and figures to his better known mobile installations.<br />
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It was the shadows created by the installations that appealed to me and I tried to sketch them repeatedly. The closer I looked the more I appreciated the balance and movement created in the mobiles through open and closed links - very tempting to touch!<br />
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Another exhibition on in the gallery at this time that I loved, included pieces from their permanent collection and some on loan, called "Making Traces". These works were full of layering of paint, techniques and even layered collages torn back.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Part of a series entitled "Pavement Karaoke" by Laura Owens<br />
Features layers of impasto and fake 'drop shadows' to give the illusion of depth</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">detail from "Pavement Karaoke"</td></tr>
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I loved the torn graffiti look to this huge canvas:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christopher Wool</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">detail from above</td></tr>
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The last piece reminded me of something I'd seen in an <b>Anthropologie </b>store earlier that day.<br />
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This abstract textile was inside the store and caught my eye. It was only closer that you could see it was made out of cloth and staples like layers of fabric had been ripped off the wall.<br />
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Incidentally I love to see that shop's display windows - way too expensive but the displays are great.<br />
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I hadn't seen much of <b>Frank Auerbach</b> before going to <b>Tate Britain</b> other than a few of his portraits but I was amazed by the colour in this show. The sheer volume of paint used in his work almost gives it a sculptural quality but his colour combinations - red with green and orange/coral with blue were amazing.<br />
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The <b>British Museum</b> also got a visit - to the <b>Celts: art and identity </b>exhibition. <br />
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So many sketches and notes taken but still couldn't resist getting the catalogue. The lighting and layout was wonderful with swathes of voile at ceiling height guiding your passage through the exhibits. For pieces so old the shine and the detail was breathtaking. It was fascinating to see how these ancient designs and jewellery styles influenced the designers of the Arts and Crafts movement for one.<br />
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One place I had never been to before was the <b><a href="http://www.wmgallery.org.uk/" target="_blank">William Morris Gallery</a></b> at Walthamstow<br />
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There is also a room for invited artists' exhibition and while I was there pieces by <b><a href="http://www.bobandrobertasmith.co.uk/" target="_blank">Bob and Roberta Smith</a></b> (aka Patrick Brill, a rather brilliant contemporary UK artist) adorned the walls. Check him out if you're not familiar - reminds me of Rosalie Gascoine's road signs a bit.<br />
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Off Piccadilly area is the <a href="http://whitecube.com/exhibitions/losing_the_compass_masons_yard_2015/" target="_blank">White Cube</a> gallery at Mason's Yard and I came here to see "Losing the Compass", an exhibition which focussed on <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "proximanovaregular" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;"> "the rich symbolism of textiles and their political, social and aesthetic significance through both art and craft practice</span>as <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "proximanovaregular" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">traces the poetic and subversive use of the textile medium through works by Mona Hatoum, Mike Kelley, Sergej Jensen, Sterling Ruby, Rudolf Stingel, Danh Vo and Franz West, wallpaper by 19th century English designer, craftsman and socialist William Morris and a series of quilts made collectively by the Amish and Gee’s Bend communities in USA during the late 19th and early 20th Century."</span><br />
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It is always great to see textiles in an 'art gallery' setting but not sure if it really lived up to the hype here.</div>
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So many seen but, oh, so many yet to see....</div>
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-854842547973644922016-01-10T22:03:00.000+11:002016-01-10T22:04:48.641+11:00Totems<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The design exercises of <b>Chapter 5</b> concern <b>totems</b>. Like other students before me, I looked into the definition to find a contemporary equivalent or twist I could use here<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="oneClick-link" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">natural</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">object</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">or</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">an</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">animate</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">being,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">as</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">an</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">animal</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">or</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">bird,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">assumed</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">as </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"></span><span class="oneClick-link" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">emblem</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">clan,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">family,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">or</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">group.</span></span></li>
<li><span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="oneClick-link" style="box-sizing: border-box;">a</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="box-sizing: border-box;">representation</span> <span class="oneClick-link" style="box-sizing: border-box;">of</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="box-sizing: border-box;">such</span> <span class="oneClick-link" style="box-sizing: border-box;">an</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="box-sizing: border-box;">object</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="box-sizing: border-box;">serving</span> <span class="oneClick-link" style="box-sizing: border-box;">as</span> <span class="oneClick-link" style="box-sizing: border-box;">the</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="box-sizing: border-box;">distinctive</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="box-sizing: border-box;">mark</span> <span class="oneClick-link" style="box-sizing: border-box;">of </span><span class="oneClick-link" style="box-sizing: border-box;">the</span> <span class="oneClick-link" style="box-sizing: border-box;">clan</span> <span class="oneClick-link" style="box-sizing: border-box;">or</span> <span class="oneClick-link oneClick-available" style="box-sizing: border-box;">group.</span></span></span></li>
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In this design context the totem should be representative of my personal research and development through this course so what better way or encompassing my work than to use the decorated papers, fibre materials and photos that I created during <b>each module</b> of the diploma. </div>
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I chose to create a collection of <b>gumnut </b>motifs torn out from these papers as it was symbolistic of my overall vegetation theme and motif had been used in some form or another throughout the diploma eg Module 1 sketchbook, <a href="http://fibrenell.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/rest-of-braids.html" target="_blank">Module 3 strapwork</a> and <a href="http://fibrenell.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/those-3d-shapes-of-chapter-9.html" target="_blank">Module 4</a> 3D shapes).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5.1: gumnut shapes torn from decorated papers monoprints and photos used during modules 1-5</td></tr>
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I decided to arrange them threaded through 3 lengths of jute twine as I had made in previous chapters of this module, and hang them from a hook to photograph.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5.2: hanging 'totem' of gumnuts</td></tr>
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Indigenous Australians were very much into the spiritualism surrounding totems particularly shown in representations of 'Dreamings" so I wanted to link my totem with something more indigenous. I prepared an open net 'cloth' using the jute fibre with the intention of making a bag akin to a traditional dilly bag to hold and thereby "connect" the motifs together.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ22QM_d3xyCT77Nes2iDLe0eOID4iNHvTyrlemMHh-zfc37O1NP1nCLWi-Os_GjhS4YKKKJnzGM1iI6xej60O2C3AYHYZOom9cm01_P9hZoOzerc5Rp45SgW1HqyhSKzUsKZzUGfBu8c/s1600/P1080998.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ22QM_d3xyCT77Nes2iDLe0eOID4iNHvTyrlemMHh-zfc37O1NP1nCLWi-Os_GjhS4YKKKJnzGM1iI6xej60O2C3AYHYZOom9cm01_P9hZoOzerc5Rp45SgW1HqyhSKzUsKZzUGfBu8c/s320/P1080998.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5.3: jute net preparation</td></tr>
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I used a canvas frame approx 50cm x 40cm to support the net while I made it with jute string and lark head knots. Traditional dilly bags are made quite differently but I felt the visual connection would be evident.</div>
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Once made however I found the totem shapes were more interesting when interlaced in the net of the bag rather than contained as a bundle inside.</div>
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I photographed the totem in 5.4 all ways and cropped to achieve some more interesting close-ups that I could play with.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5.5</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5.6</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5.7</td></tr>
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To develop these photo shots further into another design or totem, I merged them with sections of the original collages and drawings (5.8 and 5.9) of the gumnuts that I had made in my sketchbook.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5.8</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5.9</td></tr>
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Without access to a great program like Photoshop I cut out these cropped photos and played around with them to make another totem in 5.10<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ZgShzPVWWI2gXYwv-0rXsYHJU6U8_9WRbIcSm3c8bJLgIfmIJunOoBnMSnP-AFfomC0X9i5_Aw_x-YUQoBToI6C5Am2k2LAwWrVf9IJrYjddEN7D5nPak1DRjMTnd_CwJyaLn1tcsos/s1600/P1090024crophoriz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ZgShzPVWWI2gXYwv-0rXsYHJU6U8_9WRbIcSm3c8bJLgIfmIJunOoBnMSnP-AFfomC0X9i5_Aw_x-YUQoBToI6C5Am2k2LAwWrVf9IJrYjddEN7D5nPak1DRjMTnd_CwJyaLn1tcsos/s400/P1090024crophoriz.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5.10</td></tr>
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Certain areas of this totem I think are worth cropping further and pursuing eg the end on the left with the split gumnut but maybe another time. For this exercise I simply looked at border edge designs with repeated units as in 5.11 and 5.12</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEJ9J6IqZZg03VfVcK0TpZzH7frWKGQCsfqKuEzGVVIWxcgZRkft_gf5N8hnM8uCwrcLz4J-ckT9OJPe9wBNeYnx86fBEl3ebt9fdxqALb3_w8g3bV-wx2BvznmL-K7NA-gPIPqyOgW1g/s1600/P1090042crop1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEJ9J6IqZZg03VfVcK0TpZzH7frWKGQCsfqKuEzGVVIWxcgZRkft_gf5N8hnM8uCwrcLz4J-ckT9OJPe9wBNeYnx86fBEl3ebt9fdxqALb3_w8g3bV-wx2BvznmL-K7NA-gPIPqyOgW1g/s400/P1090042crop1.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5.11</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcM3IKDynfjQMDmpAVCUVvhXdsXj9QPGD0aKJWOtgll-8GGh6NHJmQaJRHjY27eq2gnJr1G1n-FMNcV5tH1KIfYEpUZ-WMlcY-RigHxJnt33cTIAhyphenhyphenBglyvKPKgNkrlUE2ADWAHrfvTyE/s1600/P1090042crop2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="56" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcM3IKDynfjQMDmpAVCUVvhXdsXj9QPGD0aKJWOtgll-8GGh6NHJmQaJRHjY27eq2gnJr1G1n-FMNcV5tH1KIfYEpUZ-WMlcY-RigHxJnt33cTIAhyphenhyphenBglyvKPKgNkrlUE2ADWAHrfvTyE/s400/P1090042crop2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5.12</td></tr>
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Going back to the original photo (5.2) of the 3D totem, I cut out the totem and treated it as a 2D shaped edging and used these as stencils.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNU01V_r_fRXm0dvhXg0tVXMLYBd2zbhnoB7NJNS4-D3Jqj8d7zNyO-bWeKhAhg4EAp3L1UoFwt6iw57KF5LLHoV_XxZnbE1eXy6ld101lF3X2_L3Uyr1SHPGyYnZmjj5NIQGfuopsRWs/s1600/P1090029.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNU01V_r_fRXm0dvhXg0tVXMLYBd2zbhnoB7NJNS4-D3Jqj8d7zNyO-bWeKhAhg4EAp3L1UoFwt6iw57KF5LLHoV_XxZnbE1eXy6ld101lF3X2_L3Uyr1SHPGyYnZmjj5NIQGfuopsRWs/s320/P1090029.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5.13</td></tr>
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The cut totem was then placed as a design motif on a background of recycled black paper stamped with these stencil outlines (5.14 and 5.15).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5.14</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnr6LNBmEOd4bfMvLaE8aj9fMrIZm34vS-zK45xfiOqyA_oeuFZEsoSq_ZAGjm-sLtLzzA_ujD2VS4JdxK1ZUGr1uM_sj8IyOFgE9Z_uUbrIL-z4f0Oj9pWUkcqMZNZCZoJmLoxlG6Bsc/s1600/P1090034crop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnr6LNBmEOd4bfMvLaE8aj9fMrIZm34vS-zK45xfiOqyA_oeuFZEsoSq_ZAGjm-sLtLzzA_ujD2VS4JdxK1ZUGr1uM_sj8IyOFgE9Z_uUbrIL-z4f0Oj9pWUkcqMZNZCZoJmLoxlG6Bsc/s320/P1090034crop.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5.15</td></tr>
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-82879633195717277842016-01-10T15:53:00.000+11:002016-01-10T15:53:20.626+11:00Design from ethnic source - Chapter 4 cont.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Following on from <a href="http://fibrenell.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/design-from-ethnic-source.html" target="_blank">this post</a> where I was drawing inspiration from indigenous Australian sources I've been developing some more paper designs.<br />
Using the 'kangaroo / boomerang' motif and variations of it, I prepared, on recycled black paper, some monoprinted backgrounds which were a little more interesting and could be progressed into stitched works.<br />
Sian had advised me to think of the 'characteristics' of the inspirational designs that attracted me and use those in developing my own designs. So I've employed simple colour scheme, tonal contrasts, outlining, repetition but with torn, uneven sizing.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9w8GmKO03LDpXktZok_MMhkVn28C592uquCfdsZdFDxxjnh50jnbYLv0uYpR0n8-Tcq1QZQ-YSLgCdy6XRLnWwu8ZezU5Ml9FkOiDVdiZNsdSCH4nDwbjMjOt2rbP9RNfoH6eXlGDnj4/s1600/P1090036comp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9w8GmKO03LDpXktZok_MMhkVn28C592uquCfdsZdFDxxjnh50jnbYLv0uYpR0n8-Tcq1QZQ-YSLgCdy6XRLnWwu8ZezU5Ml9FkOiDVdiZNsdSCH4nDwbjMjOt2rbP9RNfoH6eXlGDnj4/s320/P1090036comp.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4.15</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQcFFsMtua6bYoJ9CV8dLuAm0cMQtdJHcwNwT1dBw2cJEd5EVQUWfvRI9MEWzs0z0ULSvrvgsZ_DK87dKEC_cewhnMxJAXAe-rZ_9cw6uxohCjXuyg_RoEiATXFN-lojh1HmgRxo6VBeg/s1600/P1090035comp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQcFFsMtua6bYoJ9CV8dLuAm0cMQtdJHcwNwT1dBw2cJEd5EVQUWfvRI9MEWzs0z0ULSvrvgsZ_DK87dKEC_cewhnMxJAXAe-rZ_9cw6uxohCjXuyg_RoEiATXFN-lojh1HmgRxo6VBeg/s320/P1090035comp.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4.16</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkeAeXOoNCYFsz5PAb9kN0BSpqfbdlk9E3MnRiERDgSuIxa8sh5cuMtAE0ITpFQDfNwA-US082D9ENWRmMcQLLeOHlgdxKVx_Xte2n6VYI2G6vteiGClhGVp5KxsDfD0Ij1nxdoXkU1kM/s1600/P1090037comp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkeAeXOoNCYFsz5PAb9kN0BSpqfbdlk9E3MnRiERDgSuIxa8sh5cuMtAE0ITpFQDfNwA-US082D9ENWRmMcQLLeOHlgdxKVx_Xte2n6VYI2G6vteiGClhGVp5KxsDfD0Ij1nxdoXkU1kM/s320/P1090037comp.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4.17</td></tr>
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Added motifs developed them into the following:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4.18</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRTIXdmGTISGHjiAWkCQ6c5IrxJx1sWrrKsEUIrKlND_9Au45DyEiVKqJTgU-OA_1vBSJW5FbVfjafwoOgV2AaNaFH1IEZ2TVenLmh2Kg5bNswl7G0EwKtvx9yLtWGeUJKavnLI-Prp9A/s1600/P1090041.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRTIXdmGTISGHjiAWkCQ6c5IrxJx1sWrrKsEUIrKlND_9Au45DyEiVKqJTgU-OA_1vBSJW5FbVfjafwoOgV2AaNaFH1IEZ2TVenLmh2Kg5bNswl7G0EwKtvx9yLtWGeUJKavnLI-Prp9A/s320/P1090041.JPG" width="243" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4.19</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMmiKUjY5F5wCXbjFQBc_e9YeGJVBz76PJv-nf-8zuc0uosO_1TJxRIAfvhy6I0QnM5053xaXy9JU5qdbXWq6qfG1QxR8AjYa0MswF_2nDEH0gKlSbG7qi8vx0Xyf0Eygji7MsW8RNyUo/s1600/P1090040.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMmiKUjY5F5wCXbjFQBc_e9YeGJVBz76PJv-nf-8zuc0uosO_1TJxRIAfvhy6I0QnM5053xaXy9JU5qdbXWq6qfG1QxR8AjYa0MswF_2nDEH0gKlSbG7qi8vx0Xyf0Eygji7MsW8RNyUo/s320/P1090040.JPG" width="232" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4.20</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2e2AHXswerLXJ9bFCzLKAjGVX151Ok-XR705TXFPvzT6VTbhSDqBHzesBvcJ6SbR2oyEGXonz41mzQYerR8PM3TohulHipcv-rSlCvHDpvkkeDpqNid0LSWcSogX5mGaBdBnHP9Cu0co/s1600/P1090039.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2e2AHXswerLXJ9bFCzLKAjGVX151Ok-XR705TXFPvzT6VTbhSDqBHzesBvcJ6SbR2oyEGXonz41mzQYerR8PM3TohulHipcv-rSlCvHDpvkkeDpqNid0LSWcSogX5mGaBdBnHP9Cu0co/s320/P1090039.JPG" width="246" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4.21</td></tr>
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On a recent trip to London particularly to the British Musuem I found some interesting painted barkcloth and fibrous weaving from the Pacific islands and Torres Strait islands north of Australia. A couple of these were inspiration for the recycled paper samples.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1DZHe0hSQhb8he-k8XItT4oBR71f-Eu6e_VJoTSdgo44-3g4l-KThWGceUz9YPrPvVV2_jWAXrNZRIf3czS51SDbFzTHFJ9rIGu9p5uAIVEmP9C-YuUwQdcW8xS8Z5r_vFKfLd5tp3x0/s1600/photo4.22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1DZHe0hSQhb8he-k8XItT4oBR71f-Eu6e_VJoTSdgo44-3g4l-KThWGceUz9YPrPvVV2_jWAXrNZRIf3czS51SDbFzTHFJ9rIGu9p5uAIVEmP9C-YuUwQdcW8xS8Z5r_vFKfLd5tp3x0/s400/photo4.22.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4.22: Painted barkcloth (left) stitched sample (right)</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIihB7uG9jCpyDvK1sOELI1hkN5eFZrsASW2pdA2R6TuACuy-OYJ8Ewr0Qt902yV_IHIis66gJKJ0pCazMfJUZVvrIkoWiHZsZwACnUYtOrr0CQh8X-0VLjhb6zwYVMe4umSFQRLYKPsw/s1600/photo4.23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIihB7uG9jCpyDvK1sOELI1hkN5eFZrsASW2pdA2R6TuACuy-OYJ8Ewr0Qt902yV_IHIis66gJKJ0pCazMfJUZVvrIkoWiHZsZwACnUYtOrr0CQh8X-0VLjhb6zwYVMe4umSFQRLYKPsw/s320/photo4.23.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4.23: painted barkcloth (left) and stitched sample (right) using momi'd paper, dyed cleaning rags, dyed cloth and tea bags</td></tr>
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-63168289489714744302016-01-03T19:32:00.000+11:002016-01-03T19:32:39.435+11:00Final assessment piece in situ<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So finally I have managed to deliver my hanging to the client and photograph it as intended in the company foyer.<br />
This was the wall space as proposed in a previous <a href="http://fibrenell.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/large-scale-assessment-piece-pap4.html" target="_blank">post</a>:<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtr7NJBH6Hom4Xh4JD0EawabqhUSxUtWLDByxuatrsDxzVmqNIEKqgRsxsqv-9Qx0HOvamJQ-FyBSTLzvBBN9YuUMw9WXdKr9SPwh_1cly_8KwcY2kq7Gq0CP947NEuN_UgIi516y3yX0/s1600/P1080177.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtr7NJBH6Hom4Xh4JD0EawabqhUSxUtWLDByxuatrsDxzVmqNIEKqgRsxsqv-9Qx0HOvamJQ-FyBSTLzvBBN9YuUMw9WXdKr9SPwh_1cly_8KwcY2kq7Gq0CP947NEuN_UgIi516y3yX0/s320/P1080177.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.40 site of commission</td></tr>
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and here are some photos of the hanging in situ:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.41<i> Sterculia 2015</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.43</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.44 <i>Sterculia </i>detail</td></tr>
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<b>Evaluation</b>: The piece was hung from a clear perspex rod (10mm diam) so as to minimize the visual impact of a pole against the wall and not detract from the work. The flexibility of the rod successfully enabled the piece to follow the curvature of the wall, and not impede the flow of traffic through that area. <br />
The rod was attached to the wall using 3 clear "command" hooks and strips.<br />
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All my previous photography of the work was taken against a white backdrop so I was anxious to see how the piece appeared against this darker wall. I acknowledge that the brown and green colours merge into the background a little more as I suspected they would, but the 'floral' motifs in yellow are now brighter and focal to the piece. The fluorescent lighting adds to this.<br />
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Design changes? I would like to pursue my idea to hang several overlapping layers distinctly apart but I think a site with an open void might have been better suited to that. I could have gone bigger of course, making a feature of the curved wall and creating a hanging twice as wide, but overall I am pleased with the result.<br />
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<b>Time taken to produce</b>: </div>
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<li>to prepare and felt the final 2 layers of lace felt - 13 hours</li>
<li>to prepare the sheer and felted motifs with shisha mirrors - 9 hours</li>
<li>to attach and free machine embroider - 5 hours</li>
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total time - 27 hours</div>
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<b>Cost to produce</b>:</div>
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<li>merino wool roving (approx 500g) - $4</li>
<li>landscape dyes (approx 10g) - $12</li>
<li>shisha mirrors - $8</li>
<li>polyester sheer fabric (approx 1m) - $10</li>
<li>wool yarns, crochet cottons - $7</li>
<li>embroidery thread, machine and hand - $12</li>
<li>perspex rod - $16</li>
<li>resist foam and plastic sheeting for felting - $3</li>
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total cost - $72</div>
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<li>dyeing of wool roving, wool yarns, cotton yarns</li>
<li>laying out dyed yarns and wool roving in lattice formation for felting</li>
<li>felting of lattice layers</li>
<li>felting shisha mirrors into wool, drying, cutting out paisley pattern motifs from felt and free machine embroidering</li>
<li>drawing out motifs on water soluble fabric, stitching motifs through sheers, dissolving fabric, drying then cutting out motifs using soldering iron.</li>
<li>attaching motifs to lattice by hand stitching</li>
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<b>Particular health and safety issues</b>:</div>
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<li><b>acid dyes </b>- powdered dye kept in sealed pots within sealed container out of reach of children in dedicated dyeing room. Mask and gloves worn when measuring out into jar. Care taken in adding hot water, making solution of dye. Be aware of steam in urn when adding dye solution or wool roving / yarn. All utensils used only for dyeing procedure.</li>
<li><b>felting</b> - work on raised table to minimize strain on back, mop up any water spills on floor around working area</li>
<li><b>shisha mirror</b> motifs - be aware of cut mirror edges within felt when free machining felt motifs, wear glasses for protection against broken needles</li>
<li><b>soldering iron</b> - work in well ventilated room, preferably next to open window, leave hot iron held in upturned flower pot when not in use, always remember to pull out plug after use.</li>
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-44286574052740943822016-01-01T13:12:00.000+11:002016-01-01T13:12:35.349+11:00A little extra on Sterculia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
While I was working on my <i>Sterculia </i>hanging I began to develop an accompanying wearable piece and was fortunate enough to have both works on exhibition in November through the <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/untethered.exhibition.group/?fref=ts" target="_blank">Untethered </a></b>textile group in Hornsby, NSW.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sterculia II</td></tr>
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Since the Sterculia plant was pharmaceutically related to the human body I felt a wearable piece was in order. The constriction and discomfort often felt by IBS sufferers can be symptomatically relieved by this product. This is depicted here through the use of tendrils winding around the human form, from the rigid thorn-like fronds around the neck to gradual relaxation until the tendrils open out into a lacy array of colour at the base.</div>
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Some more detailed photos:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bodice top featuring wired tendrils</td></tr>
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The barl-like bodice was made using hand dyed merino with tissue silk nunofelted underneath with numerous resists incorporating yarn and pencil roving. A concealed zip is sewn in the side seam for wearablility.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back of bodice</td></tr>
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Sections of the bodice do not have silk structure on reverse which enables the felt lattice to fold over loosely at the top edge like peeling bark.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">lower lace dress</td></tr>
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The lattice tendrils were prepared separately and stitched on to the long bodice using seed beeds and motifs only as far as the hip area. The rest of the tendrils (in one length 6m in total) are wound by hand once on the model using internally wired tendrils to create the neck feature.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">detail of wrapping tendrils</td></tr>
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The organza motifs found in the hanging are repeated on this garment.<br />
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-2208439960300704042015-08-29T15:13:00.000+10:002015-08-29T15:13:08.506+10:00Juggling the hanging<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Spent this week pinning motifs, hanging up, re-pinning, rehanging, stitching, rehanging etc etc......<br />
You can tell where the juggling reference came from, but at last I'm at about 80% completion and the stage where I'm leaving it on the wall in view while I "consider" it.<br />
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I like the layering effect achieved as I wanted to give an impression of looking through vegetative growth and have (at present) hung the 2 mesh layers on the same perspex pole. But I'm feeling that the layers might be better separated slightly and hung on 2 poles eg 4cm apart, which would require fixing the poles in parallel like this bracketed to the wall or hung from the ceiling. This would be achievable in a gallery on a flat wall, but the curving wall in the office might be too challenging and the hanging slightly proud of the wall present an impedance to passing foot traffic in the corridor.<br />
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Here are a few photos of the work to date:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.32 Complete hanging</td></tr>
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Details of the 'bark' area with additional whip stitching to give mottled texture as on the real tree</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.36</td></tr>
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As I've said, the depth of the layers appeals to me and I've tried to photograph the effect you get looking along the length, almost between the layers. What you don't get from the photos is the glinting from the shisha mirrors at different times of the day.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.38</td></tr>
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My next task will be to see how the piece looks against the blue wall of the company foyer....</div>
Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-63338246342779122832015-08-26T17:38:00.000+10:002015-08-26T17:38:05.221+10:00Sterculia motifs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I've made a start on the final hanging itself by felting a loose mesh of yarn, threads and wool roving strands. Laid out like this it covered an area of 2.5 m by about 1.8m as I knew it would shrink considerably once felted, probably to about 60%.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.23</td></tr>
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I used bark colours on the left gradually moving to greens then to yellow and reds of the flowers.<br />
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Once felted it had shrunk to about 1.3m by 1m. I then made a second mesh to layer in front of the first to give it more depth, and added further wool with resists on the left to give the patchy appearance of the Sterculia tree bark (see photos 11.13 and 11.14 in<a href="http://fibrenell.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/more-on-sterculia-project-final.html" target="_blank"> previous post</a>)<br />
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At the moment (photo 11.25) the 2 layers are hanging on a metal rod simply woven through the top but I'm thinking of removing the rather solid top edge and forming thinner loops out of the felt mesh itself which will attach on to a clear perspex rod. The rod is sufficiently flexible that it could bend with the curvature of the office wall.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.26 detail of mesh background</td></tr>
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The bark felt looks a little flat compared to the rest of the mesh and so I will be free machining on the 'panels' to create some surface texture before I add motifs.<br />
I've now made a variety of motifs to attach to the mesh - paisley pattern and stylised boat (company logo) in various colours of sheer fabrics (11.27)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.27 sheer motifs</td></tr>
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paisley pattern felt motifs, embroidered and encapsulating shisha mirrors (11.28)<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.28 shisha felted motifs</td></tr>
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and the same motif shapes in thin translucent polymer featuring Hindi script (11.29). These can all be stitched on the mesh<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.29 polymer clay motifs</td></tr>
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The polymer clay sheet was created by spreading liquid polymer clay extremely thinly on to the printed newspaper, baked in an oven at 150 degrees C for about 15 minutes (slightly higher temp than normal to give the translucency). Once cooled the paper was removed from the back of the clay by soaking in water then rubbing vigorously to take the paper off.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.30 soaking the sheet in water</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.31 Cutting out motifs</td></tr>
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The process is a little like paper lamination in which paper printed images are transferred on to sheer fabric.<br />
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I anticipate the challenge will be balancing the additional weight of these motifs on the mesh without too much distortion of the hanging occurring. I don't necessarily want to add them evenly over the mesh as there will be a design focal point which might skew the hanging physically. Stay tuned....<br />
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-27450452851573085472015-05-27T13:09:00.000+10:002015-05-27T13:27:59.564+10:00More on the Sterculia project - final assessment piece<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've got back to my final assessment piece recently that I started plans for in a <a href="http://fibrenell.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/large-scale-assessment-piece-pap4.html" target="_blank">previous post</a> (longer ago than I care to note). I've numbered the photos in this post as a continuation of the last post I made about this assessment piece in Module 5.<br />
I had plenty of source material in the form of the tree formations, fruit and flower shapes / textures but how to bring them together in a designed hanging was eluding me.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.13 Inspiration board</td></tr>
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Sian suggested I go back to the sources and 'play a little' without too many design preconceptions so I created some boards of texture in paint and mixed media bearing in mind only the colours.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.14a texture and colours of tree trunk<br />
-the grittiness on the surface actually came from the pharmaceutical product which swells a bit like a gel when added to water but leaves the residue when dries</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.15 used a Paisley pattern wood block stamped in molding paste to give some relief - a nod to the Indian origins of the product</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.17 liked the allusion to a network of tree branches</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.18</td></tr>
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These boards brought me to a conclusion that I wanted to create layers in the piece, not simply one decorated fabric, in order to give depth and texture but retain the light airiness that I'd seen in the photos taken through foliage found during my research and in the company's marketing material.<br />
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My plan is to create a lace structure as backdrop probably in wool in order to incorporate various fibres and yarns in the felting process. There may be 2 layers of this to give depth.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.19</td></tr>
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This structure will span across the whole piece but there will be gradation of colour from browns to greens to ochre/burgundy from left to right and I propose 3 areas as in the (very rough) sketch in 11.20. The first denotes the bark textures, the second branches and foliage, and the third the floral area. The proportions are 1:2:3<br />
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I hope to have a horizontal connection through layered branches, perhaps machined cords.<br />
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I have been considering the floral aspect of this and looking at shapes other than the flower itself eg. sailing boat motif (company logo) or a motif resembling the Paisley pattern as in 11.21 to bring in the Indian connection.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.21 paisley pattern inspired motif in cutwork lace</td></tr>
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I'm also suggesting making motifs out of my coloured drawings, Indian newspaper script or even photos of the plant itself. These printed onto translucent sheer fabric or a thin layer of liquid polymer clay could be cut out, stitched into and onto the felt backing, along with shisha mirrors or mosaic tiles to add a 'floral tribute'.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.22 Printed liquid polymer clay</td></tr>
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-86124133574278611792015-04-11T15:46:00.000+10:002015-04-11T15:46:35.371+10:00A little too long in the ground<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Back in January I was <a href="http://fibrenell.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/chap-3-transformation-of-materials.html" target="_blank">colouring some fabric and paper </a>by various means, and I buried some cotton in the garden in the hope of some transformation.<br />
Yesterday I uncovered the treasures after about 10 weeks of treatment to find that perhaps our warm soil had too much effect.<br />
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The fabric pieces had been soaked in soy milk before burying and I think this had promoted their decomposition. The cotton voile and muslin had turned to "thread goo" for want of a better description. Only the heavy cotton remained intact and even that had been eaten away considerably. But the camelias were thriving.....</div>
Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-9310928953386224092015-02-12T22:55:00.001+11:002015-02-12T22:55:44.011+11:00Design from ethnic source<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
For this design work I looked to Australia indigenous art that I had been researching for chapter 1, some examples shown below in 4.1<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4.1 from artists (from l to r) Uta Uta Tjangala, Timmy Payungka Tjapangati, and Tjukurrtjanu</td></tr>
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<span id="goog_1701321641"></span>From these I drew various simple motifs in coloured pencil / pen / ink.<br />
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Some totems in the National Gallery of Australia, in Canberra really appealed to me and I started to sketch them while I was visiting, when one of the guides came over and allowed me to photograph them. I had presumed this wasn't permitted, particularly for indigenous artifacts, but it seems the mobile phone has made such policing virtually impossible.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">4.3: </span><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">sculpture by Jeremiah Bonson of the Jinang/Marung peoples from Elcho Is, NT (nga, Canberra) (</span><i style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">left) </i><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">and</span><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><i> </i>my sketches</span><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> (</span><i style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">right)</i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4.4: by Vincent Namatjira / Nigura <i>(left) </i><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">and collage torn papers and pen on collaged momigami'd papers (</span><i style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">right)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4.5: Tiwi bark basket (<i>left)</i> and thread-wrapped bark fragments on momigami'd paper bag background</td></tr>
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I liked the motif in the middle painting in 4.1 and cut out simplified versions of this, from my rusted papers in the last chapter, to design with. The background black tissue paper (adhered to pelmet vilene) was sprayed with bleach carefully using a toothbrush. Then an impression of the dotted background was produced using whipstitch with black on top and white in the bobbin.<br />
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A lot of indigenous art and fibrework is obviously coloured using natural eath pigments such as red ochre - a very similar colour to the inside of envelopes used by the National Bank of Australia!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4.7: negative shapes from rust paper on momigami'd bank envelopes</td></tr>
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A piece of artwork I have in my own home is an indigenous painting called "Hunting Dreaming" by Dilli which tells the spiritual story of a hunt, featuring the hunters, kangaroos and boomerangs in abstract form.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4.8: "Hunting Dreaming" by Dilli (<i>left)</i> and handwritten annotations on back of painting (<i>right)</i></td></tr>
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I love the kangaroo tracks but in sketching the shapes I tried to develop a new motif to potentially use in my work. <span style="text-align: center;">I'm very aware that some motifs found in indigenous art have a spiritual significance that I would not wish to misappropriate in my designs, so I am trying to develop these shapes into something new.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4.9: sketches and design inspired by 4.8</td></tr>
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Interesting arrangements were created with shape repeats</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4.10: eco printed paper shapes on rust cotton rag</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4.11</td></tr>
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The 'bird like' negative shapes (in 4.11 and 4.12) might be worth taking further, although 4.12 is just a little too reminiscent of batman.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4.13 Interlocking of shapes</td></tr>
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-87798249427529056142015-01-30T16:51:00.000+11:002015-01-30T16:51:14.242+11:00Chap 3: Transformation of materials<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This follows closely on the heels of chapter 2, as the two overlapped more than a little for me. Essentially the unconventional grounds in the last posting and some new ones were transformed with pattern, colour and manipulation to resemble characteristics of natural materials and forms.<br />
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I did some <b>natural</b> <b>dyeing</b> of fabrics and paper using <b>red gum bark </b>and <b>onion skins.</b><br />
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The <b>bark </b>naturally strips off the trees in spring and summer so our driveway is usually strewn with the stuff at this time of the year. It has been very hot and dry here since Christmas but this week we had 2 days of solid rain just when I decided I would collect some bark! It actually counted in my favour as normally the bark would have to be soaked for a few days in water before using. I reckoned that 3 days of saturation naturally meant I could use the soggy bark as it was. So it was boiled in water for about 2 hours, bark removed, some alum added to the water as mordant and then my fabrics steamed over this for a further 2 hours.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3.1 naturally dyed fabrics with red gum bark</td></tr>
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The fabrics came out a pale brown or fawn, no more than I really expected, but any patterning that I'd tried to create with shibori tying techniques didn't come out very well, just an even mottling. You can vaguely see a ring resist in the foreground.<br />
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The <b>onion skins</b> were more successful - boiled them in a net bag for 1 hour, added alum and steamed fabrics and paper for 1 further hour.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3.2 Naturally dyed fabrics with onion skins</td></tr>
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My shibori patterns were quite evident and the leaf markings can be seen (left of photo) where I bundled them in the fabrics tightly before steaming. A good bright yellow dye was produced.<br />
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I found some <b>potassium permanganate</b> in the local chemist here for the first time - hadn't found or used it before and go a bit carried away with it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3.3 Fabrics dyed with potassium permanganate</td></tr>
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I loved the ochre colour that was produced, particularly dark on the sample of wool flannel (top right of photo). I found that it even overdyed synthetic Chux cleaning cloths so I made some twine with those for future use, incorporating torn scraps of teabag in the twists.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3.4 dyed strips of Chux cloth twined with teabag strips</td></tr>
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<b>Soil dyeing - </b>A couple of fabric pieces were soaked in soy milk for 1 hour, warming in the sun in a sealed bag then buried the warm fabric in a muddy part of the garden. The protein in the soy milk will help bind the colour into the fabric. I'll hopefully leave it there for a month or so unless the brush turkeys get to it first! Watch this space...<br />
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I made some <b>egg tempera</b> which was new to me and tried it on a couple of the momigami'd paper grounds from before. The grounds had been 'sealed' with gel medium so the tempera sat well on it, interestingly pooling in the creases.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3.5 egg tempera on paper gel medium grounds</td></tr>
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The yellow was made by mixing turmeric in the egg yolk, the brown from paprika, and the red (i have to admit) from a Brusho powdered dye.<br />
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I liked the transparency of the paints and the ability to create orange from the overlapping red and yellow strips.<br />
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<b>Rusting</b> experiments - I didn't have any suitable gardening tools / implements that were rustable so I decided to create my own rust for the paper, fabric and tyvek using a method I learned from an online workshop by <a href="http://www.purplemissus.com/" target="_blank">Lynda Monk</a> and Carol McFee. I won't give details as that wouldn't be fair to them but essentially the ferric oxide is created from a reaction of ferrous sulphate using caustic soda and precipitates out on to the paper / fabric. Add some colouring like tea or natural dyes to the mix and you get lovely patterns.<br />
Once I got started with the 'mess' outside I couldn't stop - must be the chemist in me.<br />
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The tyvek works so well with this technique. The colours were quite dark but I like that. It was a dull day so took a few hours to dry and I think that was the reason for the browns / blacks. If it had been very sunny, drying would have been quicker and perhaps brighter oranges and even blue/ greens are possible -<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3.7 rusted tyvek paper</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3.8 rusted tyvek paper</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3.9 rusted tyvek paper</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3.10 rusted tyvek paper</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3.11 rusted tyvek paper</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3.12 rusted tyvek paper</td></tr>
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Then tried it with Lutradur, Crash, handmade cotton rag paper and calico fabric - like I say I couldn't stop.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4s_28WrSjES1xP5Vn1DJ9hbfL72_TZvxbl6FMaBGnmTTDnZ4eA5zB3MTGShfJegn7bYPSYpUDp70-SxkSO2c_93CKmq7W4ID9m30A0bzERI_Vh2d5to7yccxWZgF6U29yxy5lrSIjWh8/s1600/lutrador.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4s_28WrSjES1xP5Vn1DJ9hbfL72_TZvxbl6FMaBGnmTTDnZ4eA5zB3MTGShfJegn7bYPSYpUDp70-SxkSO2c_93CKmq7W4ID9m30A0bzERI_Vh2d5to7yccxWZgF6U29yxy5lrSIjWh8/s1600/lutrador.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3.13 rusted Lutradur Crash</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD67znbGjo7I2MKxKe6wBoqaOhyH3aXjsDU5SoeHi9Zb8pbhKZxuqjcNekwn2SIMLZfBxHtAoqhHF0tfczxMmvXpKjBAYM7fDUsBYh7GYh5aBk7AweeRvsDhJ8xPthZmoxPXbzYZb4sJk/s1600/paperrust1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD67znbGjo7I2MKxKe6wBoqaOhyH3aXjsDU5SoeHi9Zb8pbhKZxuqjcNekwn2SIMLZfBxHtAoqhHF0tfczxMmvXpKjBAYM7fDUsBYh7GYh5aBk7AweeRvsDhJ8xPthZmoxPXbzYZb4sJk/s1600/paperrust1.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3.14 rusted cotton rag paper</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiphD3I4H_hEBjvXAscIGHRpPUJU-lB-lFXRowdiBiyIpF6ZcICwzJlPuZERJyggYHRsHmEv2nAjGAZwWBl3U_4s4Je56tEuHwzq8vpS0A2ydKmc9otU9k_S3cAbvC-gZxboy7WVJtASYw/s1600/paperrust2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiphD3I4H_hEBjvXAscIGHRpPUJU-lB-lFXRowdiBiyIpF6ZcICwzJlPuZERJyggYHRsHmEv2nAjGAZwWBl3U_4s4Je56tEuHwzq8vpS0A2ydKmc9otU9k_S3cAbvC-gZxboy7WVJtASYw/s1600/paperrust2.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3.15 rusted cotton rag paper</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3.16 rusted cotton rag paper</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3.17 rusted cotton calico fabric</td></tr>
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The fabric samples were initially very dark and strong in colour even dried and heat set, but once they were rinsed the patterning and colour were reduced.<br />
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I did some 'transforming' of the momigami'd paper surfaces in chapter 2 (photo 2.3) to make them resemble particularly resin in red gum bark and green vegetation.<br />
This was done by adding first expanda print, texture mediums and heavy structure gel medium, and then paints (Goldon fluid acrylics, alcohol inks and waxes)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3.18 paper surfaces before <span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">transformation </span><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">(left) and after (right) </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">3.19 paper surfaces before </span><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">transformation </span><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">(left) and after (right)</span></td></tr>
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Finally I did some <b>bleaching</b> out of the potassium permanganate fabrics using lemon juice and some surface <b>monoprinting</b>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3.20 Potassium permanganate dyed cotton bleached with cut lemon</td></tr>
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I tried crushing aluminium foil to make a textured surface on which to roll printing ink and use it to monoprint on to my fabrics 3.21) and then inked up one of my textured paper surfaces itself to print with 3.22)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3.21 inked foil used to monoprint on cotton fabric dyed with onions (left) and on bleached pot permanagate dyed cotton (right)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3.22 inked paper ground (left) used to monoprint on pot permanganate dyed paper (right)</td></tr>
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-91375427728529665822015-01-28T22:44:00.001+11:002015-01-30T16:52:41.786+11:00Chap 2: Collect and Transform<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"A long time coming" is an understatement for this work but finally I'm making some record of the materials gathering exercise for Module 6 and the challenges of recycling.<br />
To be truthful, I am not a fan of recycling man made materials like plastics in textiles so I found it extremely difficult initially to get into this module with enthusiasm. I decided to go with the focus in my Chap 1 cultural research ie Indigenous Australian fibrecraft and concentrate on using plant fibre paper, bark and waste vegetation whenever possible. Incidentally the Chap 1 research will follow in a later posting.<br />
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So my "<b>shopping bag</b>" of collected raw materials included:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2.1 paper sources</td></tr>
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<li>a variety of paper envelopes, wrappings, tissue paper, paper bags, photos</li>
<li>vegetation - fruit peelings, onion skins, egg shells, fallen eucalyptus leaves, bark, palm fibre and leaves, banana leaves, seeds, raffia</li>
<li>other miscellaneous - fruit bags, tea bags</li>
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and much as I detest tyvek I included some only because we had 6 large empty bags of swimming pool salt lying around the garage.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2.2 Tyvek bags</td></tr>
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Here are some of my examples of basic stitched grounds that I made:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">2.3 Momigami'd basic paper collages backed with pelmet vilene ready for later stitching and adhered with gel medium so that they could be painted easily.</span></td></tr>
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Much of the Indigenous fibre work begins by making twine from stripped bark and branches so I felt compelled to 'twine' whatever I could recycle.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2.4 twine from momigami'd brown paper bags</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2.5 more paper twine couched onto a backing of emulsion painted cotton with vilene backing.</td></tr>
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Did I mention that twining is hard and takes forever? I suppose if your incentive for making it is to produce a fishing line so that you can eat I can appreciate why you'd spend hours doing this in the bush but phew....great respect...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2.6 cut and pieced stitched patchwork of water photos and those salt bags - some tucks and fragment of orange fruit net bag added for interest.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2.7 woven strips of palm leaf in net fruit bag</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2.8.1 photo strips of vegetation behind a fence stitched on palm leaf with couched paper twine</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2.8.2 This was the sample above after it began to dry out and I thought the twisting / curling added to it</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2.9 Stitched ground of used teabags</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2.10 Stitched ground of dried onion skins using water soluble fabric</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2.11 Stitched ground of rafia strands using water soluble fabric (grid not apparent in photo)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2.12 cotton rag paper previously handmade by my daughter, eco- printed with eucalyptus leaves</td></tr>
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The prints were done by sandwiching the fallen leaves in the paper sheets (previously soaked in a dilute vinegar solution and towel dried) and clamped together between 2 wooden blocks. The clamped bundle was steamed over a pot of water for 1-2 hours containing a little alum as mordant. Strictly speaking eucalyptus leaves are self-mordanting but I wanted to be sure of reasonable prints.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2.13 Stitched ground of eucalyptus leaves using watersoluble fabric, loosely woven with raffia fibre twine</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2.14 Red gum bark pieced together with recycled linen thread using knotted insertion stitch</td></tr>
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-44595564668430621062014-10-29T17:18:00.000+11:002014-10-29T17:18:17.362+11:00Symbiosis under Stress<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I recently had the opportunity to exhibit 2 felted hangings in Gallery 159 in Brisbane in an exhibition of Craft NSW members' work in a Queensland setting, which I was thrilled about.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Symbiosis under Stress I" and "Symbiosis under Stress II" felted hangings (centre of photo)</td></tr>
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When I was asked to participate I was completing Module 5 work of the Diploma, that in-between stage, so I took a moment to look back at my design work in the certificate and diploma for inspiration for this.<br />
I found some of my designs I'd made for my module 6 work in the certificate. I'd been looking at designs to convey the bleaching problem experienced by coral reefs when the balance and harmony of living coral and associated algae marine life is disrupted by phenomena like global warming of the seas. My certificate piece was this<br />
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a disintegrating spiral losing colour and form named "Coral in Peril", but I had thought about other abstract representations of harmony disrupted eg, broken circles, un-spiraling helices.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">design source for Symbiosis under Stress I</td></tr>
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So these became my focus for the hangings' designs as I felt the theme fitted in with the Queensland location.<br />
For both hangings I prepared 2m lengths of fine white nunoprefelt using 21micron merino roving and tissue silk, then cut into sections for dyeing. From the dyed nunoprefelt the design chapes were cut and placed on a prefelt background previously ombre dyed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Attaching cords during felting stage</td></tr>
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Each hanging had its own textural features eg. open craters and encased felt balls, or winding cords, which were created and attached during the felting process. Each hanging reduced in size to approx 60% of the original prefelt, finishing approximately 75 x 140cm.<br />
Then the fun bit started with machine embroidery when the shapes came to life for me.<br />
So here are the finished pieces with some detail shots:<br />
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<b>Symbiosis under Stress I</b><br />
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and <b>Symbiosis under Stress II</b><br />
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So just to show that squiggles drawn 6 years ago are still more than useful today!<br />
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-38748662828999542202014-07-16T23:16:00.000+10:002014-07-16T23:16:20.779+10:00Large scale assessment piece PAP4<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I've begun to consider ideas for my final embroidered large scale assessment piece. This is required to be site specific and designed in negotiation with a 'client', while fitting in with my personal diploma design theme (trees, vegetation).<br />
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A local pharmaceutical company was receptive to working with me, to create an embroidered wall hanging for their small foyer area, so I visited their Sydney offices last week to discuss further. The company is a global operation but their Australian side is office based in a quiet leafy suburb of Sydney. They have a largely open plan set up on the first floor, with entrance and integral stairwell up from the ground floor.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.1 site drawing of offices</td></tr>
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I drew a quick sketch of the layout which shows the stairs up to the main office, a left turn through the small foyer, opening out into the open plan office space with cubicles. As you walk through the foyer area, you pass a large curved blue/grey wall which at present is blank. I am proposing to site my hanging here to create interest in a rather 'blank' area, particularly for any visitors waiting there.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.2 entry door and stairwell</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.3 seating area in foyer</td></tr>
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Looking at these photos the perspective makes it look rather narrow but the blank wall is not quite so imposing and the area not so small. There <b>is </b>a curve to the wall so for a landscape oriented hanging it will need to be soft to follow the contour of the wall.<br />
The only natural light enters the office space from the front so I must assume that the hanging would be viewed in artificial light, specifically fluorescent strip lighting.<br />
The client was not restrictive concerning the design of the hanging but requested that the piece should reflect the <b>business </b>of the company in some way and be artistically <b>pleasing </b>and <b>calming</b> to the eye in that site.<br />
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One of the company's biggest products treats the symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) using the natural insoluble fibre of the <i>stericulia urens</i> tree. I felt that a design based on this subject could link with both the company and with my personal theme. Indeed the leaf of the tree features on promotional material for this product.<br />
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On researching the tree, I realised that inspiration could come from<b> not only</b> the leaf (which in itself is rather uninteresting) but also from the textural bark of the tree, the branch arrangements, the tiny star shaped flowers and the follicular fruit.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.5: Leaves of <i>aterculia urens</i><br />
(phtoto: www.dehlitree.blogspot.com)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.6 <i>sterculia urens </i>tree<br />
(photo: www.commons.wikimedia.org)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.7: Bark of <i>sterculia urens </i>tree<br />
(photo: www.discoverlife.org)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.8: flowers of <i>sterculia urens</i><br />
(photo: www.flowersofindia.net)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.9: fruit of <i>sterculia urens</i><br />
(photo: www.indianaturewatch.net)</td></tr>
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Since these photos were not my own, and I didn't have access to the actual tree itself, I decided to use these images and make my own sketches creating my own shapes inspired by the plant.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.10: study of <i>sterculia urens </i>tree and bark</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.11: study of <i>sterculia urens </i>leaves and foliage shapes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">11.12: study of <i>sterculia urens </i>flowers and seeds</td></tr>
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Where all this is leading in terms of design, I'm not sure. A little more creativity is required....<br />
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Fibrenellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697476711482906503noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6898076456974911877.post-22838524134452053102014-07-08T13:24:00.000+10:002014-07-08T13:24:25.780+10:00Paper and silk resolved samples<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Chapter 10 called for resolved samples of some of my designs using each (or a combination) of the following techniques: <b>silk paper, soluble methods, handmade paper and pulp.</b><br />
One design I picked from this module as this would extend the use of pulp around wire bottle shapes which I enjoyed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.1</td></tr>
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I made a wire frame and inserted shaped wires to convey some of the bottle outlines found in the design. The wire was wrapped in masking tape as before to aid sticking of the pulp. Then I wrapped and knotted thin strips of dark green patterned sheer and perle in sections where I wanted the pulp to stick and to give a texture to the otherwise 'flat' paper (10.2). It also implied the patterns created in the original monoprinted tissue.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.2 frame ready for pulp</td></tr>
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The frame was dipped into paper pulp dyed green, pressed slightly and left to dry.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH0ufSZDnSnxwHB-m0-9Y8iOoCToRIeqL08JE3JvWj46eDKcuqlUBPYm8zeU2G9Bg2p9Bmxe40KWz0fy41bkVJDvrVyEjAA9ktdStkDkGaz3zxISwoRZ451nFjcol6NnWOSyAFDJbhtVQ/s1600/P1080167a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH0ufSZDnSnxwHB-m0-9Y8iOoCToRIeqL08JE3JvWj46eDKcuqlUBPYm8zeU2G9Bg2p9Bmxe40KWz0fy41bkVJDvrVyEjAA9ktdStkDkGaz3zxISwoRZ451nFjcol6NnWOSyAFDJbhtVQ/s1600/P1080167a.jpg" height="220" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.3</td></tr>
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I went on to prepare 2 bottles stitched on water soluble fabric which would be an additional layer to the pulp frame.<br />
This is the finished sample below:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.4</td></tr>
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The motifs were attached using loose insertion stitches through the wire in yellow and white perle cotton. The knotted lattice in yellow is a nod to the strip of yellow scrim in the original design.<br />
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For my second sample I went back to a decorated design paper I had from module 2 featuring a vague gridwork effect.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.5</td></tr>
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I forgot to take "in process" photos so here is the finished sample:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.6</td></tr>
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Again there are a number of layers to this: first used water soluble fabric to prepare grids using perle cotton. Once dried, green paper pulp was distributed over and under the grids in places to hold together. The green of the pulp has not come out in the photo unfortunately. Dried once more, this was sandwiched between a few layers of green chiffon and green, bronze translucent sheers. A grid pattern was stitched through everything in gold and then heat gunned to leave only a rough grid pattern in sheers and expose the pulped grid.<br />
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My third sample derived from a design in module 4:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.7</td></tr>
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This time I started by making a very thin and holey piece of silk paper using silk tussah trapping scraps of dyed scrim.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.8</td></tr>
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Several individual lace motifs of leaves were prepared on water soluble fabric as in 10.3, and sandwiched along with thin mohair yarn between the silk paper and a layer of white synthetic organza.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.9</td></tr>
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These layers were free machined together using a similar leaf pattern, then heat gunned to partially remove the organza layer. Finally some very loose cabling of perle in the bobbin was stitched on top.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10.10</td></tr>
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All are not literal translations of the designs but I'm happy that the original design features have been represented in these mediums.<br />
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