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Title no. #26. Edition no. 1/11. 11.3cm wide x 29.1cm tall. Printed papers, accordion book in paper envelope with glassine inclusions; printed photographs and map; button, twine and embroidery thread.
1. Holy Scrap Quilt, Batman!, 2. Critter Charms, 3. Embroidery thread egg, 4. Old Wooden Spools of Thread, 5. ✄ ✄ ✄ How€ver to nOt loSe tHe thRead of a cOnversaTioN ☺☺☺, 6. Sewing thread hues, 7. Eye of a needle, 8. Implements of Construction, 9. Kimono Girl, sewing caddy., 10. Mini sewing room, 11. flickr.com/photos/95365982@N00/470093007/, 12. Termeh, 13. Scissors14. Not available15. Not available16. Not available
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SWEET CALL AND RESPONSE
By Steve MacDonald and Dana F. Smith
2012, San Francisco, California
edition of 25
Sweet Call and Response was developed with an emphasis on experimentation with the materials - digital printing on canvas, photo collage, machine sewn thread, and sewn collage.
Instinctively, messages are sent to attract a response. This book is a visual poem about communication through the interplay of universal symbols and photographic images.
The book is printed entirely on canvas specially coated for digital printing with pigmented inks. A variety of sewing techniques, such as patchwork and embroidery, are applied to the pages over the ink. Each page of the book is treated with meticulous stitching executed by hand using a home sewing machine. Pages are affected on both sides by the stitching. Inverse images create a visual echo woven into the design of the book, which propels the narrative ever forward.
Designed by Steve MacDonald and Dana F. Smith
Digital printing by Dana F. Smith
Sewing by Steve MacDonald
Hand bound by Juliayn Coleman with a hard case canvas cover.
Closed book measures 16.5" by 12.5"
42 pages and endpapers
signed by the artists and blindstamped
Photo of the book by Matthew Davis
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all pictures taken by Caroline Watson for Weaving Musical threads
Pictures taken by Caroline Watson for Weaving Musical Threads
My sewing threads collection has greatly benefited from the acquisition of a couple of second hand storage racks.
Autumn Arbor by The Drawn Thread. Stitched on Lemon Meringue belfast linen by Country Stitch using fibers and beads as charted. Finished August 10, 2011.
of note -- I have 125 heddles on each shaft, but this project only uses 25 heddles on each shaft AND it uses the full width of the loom. So I had to thread every 5th heddle on each shaft to spread the heddles more or less evenly throughout the shaft (sometimes I threaded every 6th or every 3rd, it just depended on what I grabbed).