15 in ’15 End of the Year Check-in and a Find
I did not complete all the goals I set at beginning of the year. But this has been my best year ever for actually working on goals throughout the year. √ 15 fused… Continue reading
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15 in ’15 Third Quarter Check-in
Three-fourths of the year is over! Time to report progress on the goals I set at the beginning of the year. √ 15 fused quilt blocks I am still making fused blocks of… Continue reading
Hexie Treasures
We had a little mini-vacation down on Galveston Island, and found a few treasures. First we came upon this bookstore — Where I found some wonderful books – After I bought them, I… Continue reading
The Cloth Antiquary
What do you do when there’s no Wikipedia page? In my last three posts, I have given you some small samples from the 1936 book, The Romance of French Weaving. There are so… Continue reading
15 in ’15 Second Quarter Check-in
Here we are half way through the year! Time to report progress on the goals I set at the beginning of the year. √ 15 fused quilt blocks I thought I would be… Continue reading
Textile Imagery
The final topic in Mary Schoeser’s book Textiles: The Art of Mankind is Imagery . Pictorial imagery is an element of textile art the viewer expects to find, despite the fact that it… Continue reading
Textile Added Dimensions
While most people are trying to “think outside the box”, textile artists are usually content to “think within the plane”. And a spectacular job we do of it, too. We can divide space… Continue reading
Textile Surface
This is the fourth in a series I am doing in which I look at my own textiles in the light of Mary Schoeser’s book Textiles: The Art of Mankind. Two more sections… Continue reading
Textile Ingredients
This is second in a series where I consider my own textiles in light of Mary Schoeser’s book Textiles: the Art of Mankind. In the section of the book titled Ingredients, along with… Continue reading
Lovely to Look at: Difficult to Summarize
I have been absorbed by Mary Schoeser’s book Textiles: The Art of Mankind. Schoeser has written many books on textile history, including World Textiles: A Concise History and Silk. This book is a… Continue reading