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made me want to have a play and see what I could create.
I'm not sure if it's finished or what I'll do with it, but I do quite like the holes and the fragility of it (although it's ended up pinker than I was expecting) and it does resemble a piece of old fabric from a worn out dress.
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| Fragile Lace (18cm x 15cm) |
The base layer is silk scrim and silk carrier rod strippings and it's held together with beads and french knots.
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I'm not sure what this fascination with holes says about me, or where this technique might go, but I think it's something I will return to.
14 comments:
I love this piece, what are you going to do with it? That's the question I always get asked when I make my crazy patchwork blocks and the answer for me is, nothing, just love making them.....
Brion
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Su this is a beautiful piece! the book looks good too! I didnt realise that great expectations was on TV, I watch TV so little these days but would love to have seen this. I read this book in 4th year at high school and loved it.
I love your textile piece and share your fascination with exploring multi layered fabrics with beads and embroidery. This does look like a piece of old lace-just like the wedding dress in Great Expectations. Wasn't Gillian Anderson fantastic as Miss Haversham?
So beautiful and delicate. I couldn't watch the TV programme, as I "did" Great Expectations for O level!
What an exciting project though I'm afraid that a lot of the words you used went straight over my head, did you hear the whoosh? I don't know what Crash is, or soft moulding paste and with what did you blast it? What are silk scrim and silk carrier rod strippings? The only things I understood were beads and french knots. The only scrim I know of is a rough, heavy fabric. The finished piece is undeniably beautiful.
Beautiful. x
Thankyou all for your comments - sorry about any whooshes! I'll try and unwhoosh!
Crash is something new to me, a man made fabric that's very thin and crumpled and it melts/distorts when blasted with a heat gun (like a hairdryer but more powerful).
Molding paste is a paste that resembles very think paint. It keeps its shape if you put it through a stencil.
Silk scrim is a soft silk fabric, with a very open weave, bit like muslin but more open.
Silk carrier rods are weird things, a by product of the silk industry I think and I bought them ready dyed - they look like this http://www.stef-francis.co.uk/fibres/dyed-fibres/dyed-silk-carrier-rods
su :-)
What a beautiful piece of work Su... right up my street. Never come across "Crash" fabric before though.
What an interesting technique Su. Your piece is beautiful, I especially love the beading.
Gillian Anderson's portrayal of a ghostly and vulnerable Miss Havisham was a revelation. Dickens would have approved I think.
It's good to be back!
Jeanne
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That's beautiful. Holes in a fabric give it a subtlety and texture, because what is BEHIND the fabric is also important, and might be constantly changing.
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It is a dream of work.
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Missed the program, but your piece is spectacular! I love holes, decay, delicacy. Perhaps this is how we are inside? made up of many layers with glimpses of goodness!
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