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Anyone who follows my photostream will know that I am an avid collector of interesting and beautiful objects. Amongst many other things, I love to collect vintage accessories. This includes antique fans. My favourite fans are those from the Victorian and Edwardian era. Fans from these eras are extremely ostentatious and beautiful, but at such advanced age are often very fragile. Such is definitely the case with this fan. This is a Victorian fan of the 1850s made of black silk which has been beautifully hand embroidered with stylised red and purple poppies and blue daisies interwoven with curvaceous leaves in colourful embroidery silks. The fan has been set on hand cut and shaped gilded wooden struts. Potentially embroidered by the woman who originally used this fan as an accessory at a ball or party, the fine workmanship would have promoted this woman as a skilled needlewoman, which in the genteel times of the Nineteenth Century would have been a desirous quality in a jeune fille à marier (a marriageable young woman). Usually being left closed, and kept out of the light, the colours of the embroidery silks are still vibrant, even after one hundred and seventy years.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 19th of November is “man-made leaves”. I used this fan in last week’s “Smile on Saturday” theme of “part of a human face” where my sitter hid partially behind the fan, so you were given a taste as to what the fan looked like. It seemed a shame to not to use it for this week’s theme and show off its rich and colourful embroideries. I hope you like my choice for the theme, and that it makes you smile.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" on the 8th of March is "collage in a square", so a collection of pictures put together to make a single picture, in this case in a square format. When it was my birthday a few months ago, a very dear friend who enjoys photography as much as I do, and knows that I collect beautiful and vintage pieces, gave me a wonderful selection of antique ribbons, buttons, buckles, lace and other fine notions. This set me off on my latest passion: photographing haberdashery still life. In this case I have used the same corner of a hand embroidered doily accessorised with a spool of cotton in one of the four colours used to embroider it. All four images recreate the full image of the doily, which I thought made for a great collage in a square. I hope you like my choice for the theme, and that it makes you smile.
Had to wait to eat the Simnel cake until I had another shot — this time, a more classic traditional English tea-time photo complete with vintage hand-embroidered table-linen whose colours perfectly complemented those of the cake and flowers.
I imagine this is not the most quite reading room when you mix cats with plants ;) Mine, at least, can't resist the messier activities!
(blouse and skirt will be available Nov. 18th, 8pm Lisbon local time)
I have been taking a break from making my little critters as they are overrunning the house. This is a little different from me - an hand embroidered tree which has over 400 French knots in different shades of pink.
I finally bought a light table and uses a dritz water soluable marker to trace the pattern. ithink it turned out great except it took a lot of time to get all of the marker out.
it was a labour of love in a way but also a pleasure to do I would like to do more but with beads introduced in to the design as well next time ....... I always leave the backs of dresses open as it makes dressing a doll so much easier and I never use the dreaded Velcro always clear snaps ^__^
This is from a shirt sewsew-a-gogo cleverly crafted for her fashionista daughter. I borrowed the idea
For the lovely couple who invited me to Thanksgiving. Hand stitched after the font used for 'Fish Heads.' Nothing ever goes to waste around here, let me tell you.
A restyling of the Simnel Cake (which delays actually being able to *eat* the thing by another day whilst I mess about photographing it)! Decorated with a selection of spring flowers and displayed on hand-made (and hand-embroidered) antique table linen (and highly resistant to ironing)! Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter! Now, if you'll excuse me, I’m off to (finally) eat some cake!
Laura is wearing a pair of earrings made for people that Sandra, from bonequea.com, found out can be worn by dolls as well! The brand's name is Parfois and they do have an online store, altough looking at them in person will give you a better idea of the scale ;)
(blouse and dress will be available Nov. 18th, 8pm Lisbon local time)
Yay! I finally finished! This is a handmade, hand-embroidered Harry Potter Ravenclaw house emblem ornament. It is 4-1/2" tall and 3-1/2" wide. The shield shows the bronze Ravenclaw eagle on a blue field. Ravenclaws are smart, witty, and wise. Notable Ravenclaws include Helena Ravenclaw (The Grey Lady), Moaning Myrtle, Filius Flitwick, and Luna Lovegood.
I also made a stylized version of this shield. You can see it here.
This is a felt snow globe ornament. Is made of light blue felt and features a little red house with a brown roof and a hand embroidered door and windows. The little hill that the house is sitting on is covered with snow, as is its roof. Someone has just shaken the globe and some small, glass, seed bead snowflakes are slowly floating down through the air. The globe is sitting on a brown felt base, with "wood panel" detailing. The whole piece is 3" tall and 2-1/4" wide. It is completely hand sewn and beaded. No machines or glue used.
Yes, it's a bit early to be thinking of Christmas ornaments. Or is it? Here it is almost September already.
I made one for a swap on Swap-Bot, and an extra one (see my Flickr profile for more information).
The theme for this month was hearts (last month it was candy).
Recognized as a traditional Scandinavian Christmas decoration (but usually made with paper) this woven-heart basket is made of 100% wool felt.
This purple and green ornament is hand-embroidered using the blanket stitch around the edges. It has a bright green ribbon hanger.
This is a hand made felt Christmas tree cookie ornament. It is 3-1/4" tall and just over 2-1/4" wide. It is frosted with buttercream colored felt and decorated with ruby red and crystal clear glass seed bead candy sprinkles.
Hand embroidery of a branch of foliage. Back is a yummy green gingham cotton ...
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(May 01st 2009)
Handsewn embroidery featuring a Red Fox, with his scientific name, Vulpes vulpes, in black cursive stitched letters, sewn into a wooden embroidery hoop. Size: 4"
This funky art necklace is a wearable work of art! The centerpiece of this groovy necklace is an intricately-detailed abstract Day of the Dead skull. The skull was originally a colored pencil drawing that you can see here in my photostream. The skull was printed using archival inks onto 100% cotton percale. The funky skull print was then securely hand-sewn onto a layer of black felt, and was then ringed with red embroidery floss and attached to a layer of hush green felt, which was ringed with pink and red metallic embroidery floss. The pendant was stuffed with poly-fil to make it puffy and 3-dimensional. The hush green felt was then securely hand-sewn onto melon pink felt, which was then ringed with sunflower yellow embroidery floss. The center of the melon pink felt was embroidered with a ring of pearlescent white glass beads. Finally, a last layer of garnet felt was added, securely handsewn to the pink felt with bright red embroidery thread. The overall design for this wearable work of art was the tribal folk art aesthetic of various indigenous cultures, such as Indian, Mexican, and Tibetan.
© Thaneeya McArdle - Please do not use this image without permission.
I have been working for some time on a large piece which will form my contribution to an exhibition in the summer in Bishops Castle in Shropshire.
It was originally going to be based on androgynist silhouettes with accompanying feminist text but recently the emphasis has been changing.
This is because I just want to make these exaggerated portraits and so I have been going with the flow.
Sometimes pieces just tell you where they want to go so for the time being I am just working from instinct and I will see how it all pans out.
The new (and possibly temporary) title is "The writing on the wall"
Hand and machine stitch with coloured pencil
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a monthly challenge called "Freestyle On The Fifth". A different theme chosen by a member of the group each month, and the image is to be posted on the 5th of the month.
This month the theme, "Sparkle" was chosen by Lisa (red stilletto).
Whilst I was on holidays, I visited the National Gallery of Victoria Ian Potter Centre at Federation Square. I was looking for a particular stained glass window that I wanted to photograph. Whilst I was wandering through the galleries, I chanced upon this sparking evening gown.
This platinum dress was designed by young Australian born Paolo (Paul) Vasileff for the Paolo Sebastian Fashion House in Adelaide. Paolo Vasileff presents two collections each year, often featuring hand-embroidered fabrics and beading. His collections are inspired by distinct themes and the fashion house is known for telling stories, fables or faerie tales through fashion. This work, inspired by the American Express platinum card, was commissioned for the National Gallery of Victoria Gala 2018 red carpet event. It features many of his signature elements including a dramatic sculptural cut, complex construction and heavily detailed surface embellishments of sparking sequins and beads in a peacock motif, all executed by hand.