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Myers, David, photographer.
Washington, D.C. A corner of a bedroom, probably in a rooming house for government clerks, showing reflected in a round mirror above a dresser a woman doing handwork
1939.
1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.
Notes:
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
Subjects:
United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
Format: Nitrate negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2002708960
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a31576
Call Number: LC-USF33- 015606-M4
I found an afghan my mom made in 1962. It is full of yarn remnants left over from her mother's knitting pursuits. It's bold - very primary color based - and I love it.
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.