tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49774290969231617192024-02-21T18:16:10.000+00:00Stitch: thread and identityLooking at needlework, embroidery and fabric... This relates to work at Bridging Arts' STITCH project.Susan Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08600379232993678865noreply@blogger.comBlogger370125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4977429096923161719.post-22530750989742468702016-04-17T18:49:00.000+01:002016-04-27T10:18:05.642+01:00Every stitch has a story<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We almost take this decorative embroidery for granted. The cards are on sale all over the place - in other charity shops, not just Oxfam, and they don't cost a fortune.<br />
But when you look closely - what craftmanship. How long did this take? What was the embroiderer thinking and where was he/she living?<br />
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Susan Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08600379232993678865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4977429096923161719.post-39930442056868265472016-04-12T18:16:00.004+01:002016-04-12T18:16:57.320+01:00Sewing workshops in Hammersmith<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A great embroidery workshop today at the <a href="http://masbrocentre.org.uk/">Masbro Centre, Hammersmith.</a><br />
<a href="http://bridgingarts.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/sew-much-fun-in-hammersmith.html">More on the Bridging Arts blog.</a></div>
Susan Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08600379232993678865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4977429096923161719.post-18798795380412933652016-02-18T08:19:00.001+00:002016-02-18T08:28:04.663+00:00Corduroy in Cologne<p dir="ltr">Cheerful corduroy armchairs in the lobby of Hotel Glockengasse in Cologne. <br>
The black towers of the cathedral - miraculously surviving WW2 bombing - magnificent over acres of concrete rebuild.</p>
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Wonderful appliques on chairs at Brumus (on Haymarket, London). Not just one dog but a whole parade...A rainy morning outside but flights of fancy here to cheer everyone up over breakfast.</div>
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Susan Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08600379232993678865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4977429096923161719.post-13004142412147846742015-10-25T17:01:00.000+00:002015-11-15T19:53:26.848+00:00On trend shoes at the Goya show<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Fabulous fabrics and detail in the portraits at the National Gallery's current Goya exhibition.<br />
In particular, very on trend shoes....Here on the Marchioness of Santa Cruz. <br />
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<a href="http://patternsandplace.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/ghostly-words-at-bowes-museum.html">Another chance</a> to visit the <a href="http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/visitus/whatson/yvessaintlaurentstyleiseternal">YSL exhibition at the Bowes Museum</a> over the weekend. Amazing that so many of the garments are not behind glass and it's wonderful to be able to examine them so closely... The whole show has an <a href="http://patternsandplace.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/ghostly-words-at-bowes-museum.html">other worldly air</a> (Who wears these clothes and when? Who can afford them?) and you feel that visitors are transported by it to a sort of fairy tale reality where you can be Cinderella for a day.<br />
An invigilator tells me too that lots of keen seamstresses visit and there's as much interest in the process (the various toiles on display) as in the final result: someone asked if they had turned a dress inside out to look at the seams....<br />
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Susan Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08600379232993678865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4977429096923161719.post-53000781123176444772015-10-09T17:31:00.000+01:002015-10-09T17:31:00.190+01:00Tiles at a Bosphorus boat stop<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Tiles on Besiktas boat station on the Bosphorus. To compare with <a href="http://patternsandplace.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/decorative-edges.html">these decorative edges</a> and <a href="http://patternsandplace.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/lines-of-tiles-and-geraniums.html">lines of tiles and geraniums </a>outside the Midland Hotel, Manchester.<br />
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Susan Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08600379232993678865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4977429096923161719.post-91593030957633885962015-10-08T10:03:00.002+01:002015-10-08T10:03:37.559+01:00Cafe mosaics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Love these lamps at a roadside cafe near Kabatas tram stop in Istanbul. They're mosaic-ed - if that's a word.<br />
Fabulous Byzantine mosaics in mosques and churches ....here echoed on the street.<br />
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Susan Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08600379232993678865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4977429096923161719.post-33870654177715149782015-10-08T09:48:00.003+01:002015-10-08T09:55:21.105+01:00A prayer mat in the Yeni V. Sultan Mosque, Istanbul<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A prayer mat in the women's gallery of the Yeni V. Sultan Mosque in Uskadar, Istanbul. This is on the Asian side of the Bosphorus.<br />
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Our project<a href="http://bridging-arts.org/stitch-wandsworth/"> <b>Stitch</b> looking at the cultural and social power of fabric and embroidery</a> has<a href="http://patternsandplace.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/embroidery-trail-extends-to-istanbul.html"> links with Istanbul.</a><br />
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Susan Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08600379232993678865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4977429096923161719.post-88286878374261928512015-10-05T15:58:00.000+01:002015-10-07T17:31:33.451+01:00Ghostly words at the Bowes Museum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Wonderful transparent black panels in the <a href="http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/visitus/whatson/yvessaintlaurentstyleiseternal">Bowes Museum at the Yves Saint Laurent exhibition</a> with quotes from the man himself: the best make-up is passion and the most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves... <br />
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Susan Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08600379232993678865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4977429096923161719.post-62521488595059110282015-10-02T16:21:00.000+01:002015-10-02T16:21:00.031+01:00Beneath the skin or the skin beneath<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
These leather gloves (embroidered with silk and silver gilt thread) in the V&A, London, are 400 years old but it's still possible to sense the owner's hands beneath the leather. They're so human it's unsettling.<br />
Gloves were hugely important in 17th century etiquette - you can imagine these were a pretty impressive social statement. But they were clearly worn, not just touted around.<br />
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Susan Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08600379232993678865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4977429096923161719.post-41137883116049098452015-09-30T15:50:00.000+01:002015-09-30T15:50:00.593+01:00Knots to keep up a blind<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Outside in downtown Bologna it's fantastically hot - a surreal reprise of summer.<br />
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Susan Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08600379232993678865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4977429096923161719.post-76412682487318559372015-09-28T15:23:00.000+01:002015-09-28T15:23:00.617+01:00An inspired use for ribbon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Inspired ribbon use in a bar in downtown Bologna (near San Stefano).... just so no one walks off with the lighter.<br />
An elegant touch in an elegant bar early on a Monday morning. Everyone is getting ready for the day....<br />
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Susan Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08600379232993678865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4977429096923161719.post-52569123061982482222015-09-27T14:54:00.002+01:002015-09-27T15:01:03.023+01:00Morden mosque fire<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Very sorry to hear of <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34374374">the fire at Morden Mosqu</a>e. We worked with women here in the <a href="http://bridging-arts.org/stitch-wandsworth/">Stitch project</a> and went to Ladies' Night more than once. <a href="http://patternsandplace.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/dinner-at-morden-mosque.html">Click here for more on that.</a><br />
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Susan Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08600379232993678865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4977429096923161719.post-8655301505477800462015-09-25T12:42:00.000+01:002015-09-25T15:20:22.720+01:00Curtains to hide a multitude of sins<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Love these curtains at the Basilica of Sant Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna (new in this case dating from circa 500 AD ) - which was built by the Ostrogoth King T<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoric_the_Great">heodoric the Great</a> as his palace chapel.<br />
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This amazing mosaic (just part of two huge panels running the length of the apse) is thought to be a fairly accurate depiction of his palace and originally contained figures of praying Goths and courtiers.<br />
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These were cleverly concealed with these curtains when Ravenna became fully Christian later in the century - so that all that remains are their hands curving around the pillars....<br />
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Susan Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08600379232993678865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4977429096923161719.post-78731985926201842062015-08-25T14:06:00.002+01:002015-08-25T14:23:37.399+01:00Embroidered book covers at Penguin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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An embroidered cover (front and back) by <a href="https://instagram.com/hellojennyhart/">Jenny Hart</a> for Sarah Blake's novel <i>The Postmistress</i> and <i>The Jane Austen Book Club</i> cover by Helen Musselwhite.<br />
Both are commissioned by Penguin Books for their newMade By Hand series.<br />
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"Six of Penguin's most popular recent fiction titles have been redesigned as a set with new craft-inspired covers. The Penguin By Hand series makes use of embroidery, crochet and quilting, with each technique further evoked on paper through the use of some serious embossing...<br />
Publishing in September, the Penguin By Hand series features the following titles: The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak (cover by <a href="http://cargocollective.com/emmaruth">Emma Ruth Hughes</a>); The Help by Kathryn Stockett (cover by <a href="http://acornquiltandgiftcompany.com/">Brenda Riddle</a>); The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Banks (cover by <a href="http://www.genevievedionne.com/">Genevieve Dionne</a>); The Postmistress by Sarah Blake (cover by <a href="http://www.jennyhart.net/">Jenny Hart</a>); The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler (cover by <a href="http://www.helenmusselwhite.co.uk/">Helen Musselwhite</a>); and The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (cover by<a href="http://www.dominiquefalla.com/">Dominique Falla</a>)."</blockquote>
Fabulous! Thanks to Bridging Arts volunteer <a href="http://patternsandplace.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/robin-and-lucienne-day-design-and.html">Katrina Williams</a> for discovering this. Katrina keeps a very sharp eye open for news and fresh ideas.<br />
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Susan Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08600379232993678865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4977429096923161719.post-42388998932055113222015-08-15T15:50:00.000+01:002015-08-24T12:12:35.263+01:00A snip at Sainsbury's<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
How about this for a great buy from Sainsbury's. Ninety-seven per cent cotton and a print that looks ten times more expensive than it actually was....<br />
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Susan Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08600379232993678865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4977429096923161719.post-7706838741663463142015-08-09T15:37:00.000+01:002015-08-25T14:16:53.218+01:00Idle days in captivity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
... and Mary Queen of Scots' imagination ran wild. Taken so by surprise by these panels at the V&A that wanted to photograph them all. But on second glance they are seriously weird. What DID she have on her mind? <br />
These embroideries were made between 1569 and about 1585 while she was under house arrest in England. George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury
was responsible for Mary and she stayed at one or other of the Shrewsbury
estates. Elizabeth (Bess) Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury worked with Mary Queen of Scots on these.<br />
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According to the V&A: "Embroidery was a form of therapy and communication for Mary, as well as a
conventional occupation for wealthy and elite women. Most of the motifs depicted
were copied from the wood-cut illustrations of emblem books and natural
histories by well-known authors such as Claud Paradin, Conrad Gessner, Pierre
Belon. These often represented sentiments and morals from classical literature
and contemporary folklore, and were chosen by Mary to express her most private
thoughts at a time when all her written correspondence was being monitored by
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Susan Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08600379232993678865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4977429096923161719.post-38204750197488726472015-07-27T16:14:00.001+01:002015-08-25T14:07:49.187+01:00Church embroidery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
To add to the collection of <a href="http://patternsandplace.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/goldwork-on-church-vestments.html">church embroidery</a> and needlework.... a crocheted cloth by tulips in Morvah Church, near Zennor in Cornwall. All the flowers in this church looked unreal - they were let's face it completely out of season or so it seemed - apple blossom on the altar and these tulips. But they weren't artificial at all. 100pct real petals.<br />
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Susan Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08600379232993678865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4977429096923161719.post-37528687760391355092015-07-23T16:53:00.003+01:002015-08-25T14:08:09.101+01:00Decorative edges<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Tiles adding a decorative edge.<a href="http://patternsandplace.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/lines-of-tiles-and-geraniums.html"> Not quite as lavish as at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, spotted a year or so ago.</a><br />
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Susan Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08600379232993678865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4977429096923161719.post-88439847307242103552015-07-19T19:55:00.000+01:002015-08-25T14:08:28.745+01:00Patterns for poolside, Spain<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A riot of prints in the wardrobe. My lovely daughter and I have packed all our summer dresses for a couple days of sun, swimming and reading in the most splendid of Paradors.<br />
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All these prints are so RIGHT in the sun.<br />
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Love these wild tapestries .....How many times have I not finished a kit?! Sometimes it's interesting not to colour in between the lines.<br />
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By Matt Smith - his exhibition 'Trouble with History' is currently on in Brighton. More on his website http://mattjsmith.com<br />
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At times I did wonder what he was <b>doing </b>to women - the catalogue defends him ably against charges of racism and misogyny.<br />
Perhaps easiest just to think about the garments and how stunning they are....<br />
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"I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda to the fragility of romance. I'm not big on women looking naive."</blockquote>
No sign at all of traditional decolletage - instead McQueen encases breasts in mussel shells or glass or razor clams.<br />
How splendid are these jackets.<br />
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