I wrote two posts yesterday, and there still seems to be a lot of material to write about, so here's the interim, before Tuesday Knitting Group and Textiles and Tea. It's all go.
Here's the stitched fabric book idea, which I think will improve the former wall hanging, and the complicated schema for the pages.
It's a slot and tab design -- tab pages slide through slot pages, very clever.
Ann Wood is to be credited here.This will be a Kawandi experiment, too, quilting spontaneously done. Like many beautiful textile arts, it has a sad history, and I am adapting and using ideas with humility, honoring the Siddi people of India
What this quotation doesn't mention is that the Siddi were enslaved, forcibly brought to India. This art is theirs. I'm only trying it as a beginner, with gratitude. It's exactly what I like to do, and they've made it a high art.
And there will be embroidered pages with favorite stitches, just walking around with thread.
Here are my starting pages
Yes I cut it up from the back. Destruction precedes creation.
It's good to have a bit of stitching to pick up when I feel like a bit of stitching. Stitchers know that need.
And this week, birthdays of Shakespeare, Hitler and my Auntie Kitty. She could have handled Hitler, no problem. Not sure about Shakespeare, though she could quote him. Left school at 12, people did then, never stopped learning.
Throughout all, there's the best dinosaur of all
The cloth book reminds me of baby's first books. and I love David Zinn's work.
ReplyDeleteI was happy to see him at work. Such simple kit, A bag of chalks.
DeleteAunt Kitty sounds like she was a formidable woman.
ReplyDeleteShe was. Interesting lady, well into middle age when I was born.
DeleteWhen I saw that you were cutting your wall hanging piece into pages I cringed a little but you are right- destruction does often proceed creation. I love that!
ReplyDeleteIt needed to happen. Watch this space.
DeleteGlorious art out of hellish experiences.
ReplyDeleteSo true. Like the quilters of Gee's Bend, brilliant art out of deprivation and discrimination.
DeleteI'm clueless about cloth books but I know by the time you have finished I may understand. Love David Zing and Tea Rex!
ReplyDeleteYou and me both.
DeleteDid you notice how your cut up blocks of color got reorganized into the wall of teas behind Tea rex?
ReplyDeleteThat's a hilarious observation. I hadn't registered that.
DeleteI love that your reworking your wall hanging. It’s like creating new life.
ReplyDeleteI have a project that I might just cut up and repurpose. You know in the five minutes I have spare a day lol
Yes, new life, maybe the life it should have had all along. I'm all for cutting! And tearing! And riving!
DeleteI once watched Hmong women doing reverse applique. Fascinating. I went home and made a reverse applique quilt block for a charity project. Once was enough.
ReplyDeleteThere's quite a bit of reverse applique in the wall hanging. The Hmong started out here and we helped launch them because they wanted to go to Ohio, with fundraisers, including their applique and wood carvings. Sounds like they arrived!
DeleteHow cool is a fabric book?!?! So neat.
ReplyDeleteIt's an interesting form of artist book.
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DeleteSo much of textile history tells terrible stories. There is something bittersweet that the same crafts bring so much pleasure.
ReplyDeletePoor Tea Rex - would he ever get to sip on the cup?
I think it's important to know the human cost in textiles, so we respect their power. But there's such beauty too.
DeleteI love the hapless Tea Rex!
His artwork is so simple it makes me think, "Why didn't I think of that?" And then I chuckle at the thought of what i would come up and how people would mistake for a blob of bird poo.
ReplyDeleteHe makes it look easy. I love his imagination.
DeleteDavid Zinn is becoming a world phenomenon.
ReplyDeleteHis work is wonderful.
DeleteLooks like an intriguing method of cloth book construction and now I'm looking forward to seeing what you do next.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the reminder about the work of David Zinn!
It's a cool construction, and I'm learning as I go.
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