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15 July – 21 October 2017
Curated by Laura Thomas.
Exhibitors: Alana Tyson, Eleri Mills, Indre Eugenija Dunn, Jayne Pierson in collaboration with Neale Howells, Laura Thomas, Llio James, Philippa Lawrence, Rhiannon Williams, Rozanne Hawksley, Ruth Harries, Sally-Ann Parker and Spike Dennis.
Wales has a much celebrated tradition of creating both utilitarian and decorative textiles of distinctive design. From power-loomed blankets to hand-stitched quilts, textiles are a key part of Welsh visual culture and history.
Whilst ‘A Darker Thread’ takes this heritage as its starting point, twelve contemporary artists, designers and makers have been invited to exhibit work which subverts these expectations.
Exhibitors have been selected for their challenging, confrontational or unpredictable approach to making thoroughly contemporary work which confidently cross boundaries of art, design and craft. A variety of making processes are exemplified, but all make use of thread in some form.
The curious, provocative, intense, fragile works explore broad-ranging themes of empowerment, loss, language, internal landscapes, memory and gender to name but a few. Some work might still feel comfortably familiar through its materiality or typically ‘Welsh’ colour palette of black, ecru and red; much hopefully, does not.
No freaking clue what I'm going to do with this stuff, but it was so pretty and sparkly and I had a coupon for 25% my entire purchase. Maybe I can crochet a lacework choker with it, once I learn to crochet?
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Waxed linen thread. It's thread composed of twisted linen threads coated in beeswax.
The beeswax cuts down on fraying and protects your text block from ripping.
At least, that's what I assume it does.
At his thread ceremony. head shaved, the ceremonial rice grains thrown at him were hurting him a little... He was really happy, though.
Sometimes, when I see how everything constantly evolves, maybe there is no need for all these elaborate ceremonies. The purpose is not clear. These occasions were meant for something very practical. I was arguing with another one of my cousins, the very superfluity of such ceremonies, and why we don't need them in such magnitude in today's given scenario. But he proved me wrong. It was all necessary...
We are a capitalist society, and its prime aspect is the consumer. or SPENDING.
After all, we all are responsible citizens of the country. We must spend to keep our economy alive. This whole thing is fairly simple...
Spend, so that others may survive...
I'm trying to keep up with the 365 project this year. I know that some days will be better than others. But so far I haven't missed a day. Friday I finished sewing the the purple bubbles and switched to green thread then I pretty much started feeling bad and spent the rest of the weekend on the couch. I did a little perusing of my antique sewing books and Miss P entertained me with some of her projects. I'm feeling much better now but still have a bit of a chest cough.
I hope to sew and watch Downton Abbey this morning.
A herringbone stitch around the perimeter of the shade, just to keep the edge folded down. I suppose I wouldn't actually have minded if there were exposed stitching on the facing. It's just that this is how the Book laid out all the steps. And for a first-time roman shader, by-the-book seemed the way to go.
My cotton thread keeps binding up and breaking off in my machine. I think for the next quilt that I machine quilt, I'll try a different brand of thread.
One of Patricia Kristoffersen's more baroque designs. Fun to make, and as all know I'm a sucker for pineapple patterns. The hardest part was actually the rows of sc that the tr get laid over (just inside the pineapples). I think she must have a much looser hand than I do
Fancy Filigree Bookmark made for my mum. I used Anchor Artiste Linen Size 10 thread and a 1.50mm hook. The pattern is available here: www.geocities.com/cherilynm/filigreebookmark.html
Thread Nipper - Patented May 20, 1952 by Francis M. O'Brien of St. Petersburg, Florida - Patent Number 2,597,591 / Contact Allan Diamanti
al@smarthomeusa.com
Thread: Aunt Lydia 10. Color: #201 White.
Hook: Tulip GP #5/1.50mm.
Size: 13.25" dia.
Made: April 15, 2011.
From: Decorative Crochet
November 1997 No. 60 page 35.
Made with White Cotton Crochet Thread No.8 with #7 hook.
finished size is 15 inches in diameter.
I've got surprisingly good finish @85 rpm and 0.005" deep cut. Hard to say, what exactly helped: very solid and thick boring bar, intensive cleanup (every two passes), intensive lubrication (it works better with internal threads), or all these factors.
But on the next photo you can see the thread surface in high magnification, and it looks good.
Another great sign for me is to get it without any signs of visible burr.
Nikon D90 + bellows + Nippon Kogaku 50mm f/1.4 Pre-AI reversed
When it gets hard to fit into the frame such a little thing..
Manual focus stacking test result: 19 shots are not enough :P