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I had a shoot today with my girlfriend Stephanie.
I did the visa the lace is all handwork. :D
Lovely shoot and wow beautifull pictures.
I am really proud :D
Model;Stepanie
Visa & hair; me -nibbie
Photography; me www.Reografie.nl
My mother passed away on October 26, 2009. We brought back an old frame from the house, but the picture in it was, unfortunately, ruined. My wife decided to use the frame for a tribute to my mother, and her rug-making.
Mom developed the craft of creating hand-woven rugs from cloth cut from used coats. She exhibited her work in various venues, and taught classes on this craft. There is a photo of such a class as part of this graphic. She made a few hundred of these rugs, in sizes ranging from chair-seat size to nine or more feet in length. Some were round, some were elongated, and she used both a spiral and a spoke method of weaving. She made several hundred of these during her life in Michigan, where she and Dad moved in 1983, We, and other family and friends, have many of them, and she sold some, too.
My wife arranged a number of photos that were taken by one or more friends of my mother. I scanned them, tweaked them with The Gimp and Corel Photo-Paint, lined the scans up, and merged them into one graphic, in Corel Draw, then tweaked the result in Photo-paint. We have had the resulting graphic printed out at 14 by 18 inches, and, we hope, it will eventually be suitably framed.
I inadvertently placed two copies of one rug in the graphic. My wife decided that she liked it that way. She also picked out the border color at the top and bottom, which we used to fill out the needed dimensions.
There are larger sizes of this graphic available, but be warned -- this picture's original size was 14 Megabytes, more or less..
The picture belongs to a set -- click on the "Rugs by Martin's mother . . ." set in the right column, if you want to see a few other, more ordinary photos of her rugs.
I'll never do anything like this, I'm sure, but I'm glad my mother did, and that my wife decided to create this remembrance.
Thanks for looking.
Yes, I know this is quite different from my other pics, but I hope you enjoy this series, nevertheless.
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Savat is a type of silver handwork mostly made in Van. As far as I learned from locals, "savat" means black in Armenian language. It's a heritage from old times of our land.
You may find Master Sadullah in Van, Turkey.
the wheel on the left of picture moves the ropes connected to the lift going into the mine.
The electric engine on the right (+ gear box below floor) gives motion to the elevator