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Re: Hand embroidery and quilting silk-on-silk 22 Jul 2012 06:42 #84737

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What everyone else said, with extra knobs on!

I would have been the first to comment last night, but my 'ifad' ran out of battery and played up. They are stupendeous pieces of work. I do hope that you compile a small book to go with it, to record the stories behind the vignettes. Silk is a beautiful fibre to work with, either as the thread or the fabric, it just looks so lucious & rich - but you do need smooth hands and nails otherwise it will catch.

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Re: Hand embroidery and quilting silk-on-silk 22 Jul 2012 02:53 #84733

Limbania55 OFFLINE Posts: 673 Thank you received: 7	Maraviglioso Renata! Thank you for sharing. I'd love to see more pics and also a photo of the full quilt, please.
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Re: Hand embroidery and quilting silk-on-silk 22 Jul 2012 01:25 #84730

Zarah OFFLINE Posts: 1526 Thank you received: 30	Renata, these embroideries are exquisite. I would love to see more. Can you keep your cat away from it? I know that in my house it would be destroyed by cats wanting to sleep on it.
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Re: Hand embroidery and quilting silk-on-silk 21 Jul 2012 18:50 #84725

kfstitcher OFFLINE Posts: 1463 Thank you received: 78	41 vignettes!? Renata that thing is epic! Thanks for showing some of the blocks. I'd love to see it all.
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Re: Hand embroidery and quilting silk-on-silk 21 Jul 2012 17:14 #84716

twiglet OFFLINE Posts: 3849 Thank you received: 546	Wow your mum is amazing. The colours are just wonderful, you're going to have to show us a picture of the whole piece. She must have such patience to do all that stitching. Thank you for posting it
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Re: Hand embroidery and quilting silk-on-silk 21 Jul 2012 16:42 #84713

Lorchen OFFLINE Posts: 2639 Thank you received: 50	Renata, your mum's work is exquisite! Thank you so much for sharing!
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Re: Hand embroidery and quilting silk-on-silk 21 Jul 2012 16:16 #84710

rehak OFFLINE Posts: 2783 Thank you received: 458	Wow, Renata! Your mother's work is breath-taking! Thank you so much for sharing (and don't be shy about sharing more pictures. ). What a wonderful gift for you mother to give you. And so meaningful. I can see where you get your artistic abilities!! Nancy
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Re: Hand embroidery and quilting silk-on-silk 21 Jul 2012 16:03 #84708

idaho OFFLINE Posts: 2531 Thank you received: 183	How beautiful, Renata...such a treasure !
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Hand embroidery and quilting silk-on-silk 21 Jul 2012 15:20 #84707

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I just mentioned in a posting under the header of "Laura Nownes" my mom's work with silk. She does a great deal of hand embroidery with silk thread on silk fabric and is amazing. I thought you might enjoy a peek at her work.

These three pictures are from an all-silk bed quilt she made for my husband and me, I suppose you could call it a legacy piece. She made something for each of her six children that reflected in some way how she saw each child evolve as an adult. There are actually 41(?) vignettes based on an intellectual and artistic journey throughout China in this quilt. Mom was 75 years old when she started this quilt and took her three years to do (although she multi-tasks and works on several projects at a time). It was quilted in what mom calls the "clam pattern" for lack of a better term, a pattern of overlapping curves. She found the pattern on a picture of a shoe found in the rubbish on the Silk Road in Mazar-tagh which dated back to AD 750-860.

Most of the silk thread comes from Japan purchased on my many trips to Tokyo. When she did not have a shade of thread she needed, or ran out of one, or wanted a different effect that the silk she had could not render, she took silk fabric and drew the thread from the fabric to embroider with. The black cat is our Luigi and yes, the fighting cocks each wear a chain with our initials on them (mom wanted to inject some humor into the vignette). Most of the blocks are about 6 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, some much smaller, but none too much larger. It was difficult to pick the vignettes to show you, but since there has been a lot of talk about cats and roosters, I thought I should include those two.