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Continuing to use items plucked from storage as I organize my attic as subjects for photography.
Today it's small, Japanese spools of metalic thread lying upon a length of Tsumugi silk.
Note: You might wonder "why' I have such items. The answer is that they are just really cool, old, handmade things that no longer have a place in our fast paced world....but were once a common day item in the textile industry before everything shifted to plastics. They are very organic in that way....
The thread is Baroque, Ecru, size 10. Crocheted with a Boye size 6 hook.
I made this some time ago and don't remember where the pattern came from; at a guess, it's an old issue of Magic Crochet magazine.
Thread passing through the eye of a dulled (from use) embroidery machine needle.
Handheld flash+4x8 softbox on left side and white cardboard box as reflector on right.
Leap Year Haiku:
Extra day attached/
To February's big toe/
With many bright threads. 112 pictures in 2012: #29, Leap Day
Title: Thread Doodles
Artist: Cara Gulati of Doodle Press in California, www.doodlepress.com
Size: 8 1/4" x 10"
Materials:
- cotton fabrics
- Kreinik Filament 095
- Kreinik 1/16" Ribbon: 5525, 5505, 5540
Comments: I designed a block with curved seams, and laid the pieces on top of each other and quilted it with a Blending Filament 095. This is one of my favorite threads because it adds color without taking over. Then I used the block design in Corel Draw to create quilting pattern. Then I used the 1/16th inch Gourmet ribbons in red, yellow and purple to bobbin quilt the design. I didn’t put the ribbon into the tension mechanism because I like the way it lumps up and creates such nice texture.
all pictures taken by Caroline Watson for Weaving Musical threads
Pictures taken by Caroline Watson for Weaving Musical Threads
www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?ident...
The incredibly thin 'waist' on this wasp led to its name.
Adults feed on flower nectar, but larvae are parasitic.
Females use their paralyzing sting to disable caterpillars and other insects. These unfortunate victims are then brought to an underground burrow (previously dug out by the female) to become food for the wasp's larva.
Category: Bee, Ant, Wasp and Similar
Common name: Common Thread Waisted Wasp
Scientific Name: Ammophila procera
Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylym: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Sphecidae
Genus: Ammophila
Species: procera
Adult Size (Length): 16mm to 55mm (0.63in to 2.17in) [ COMPARE ]
Identifying Colors: black; yellow; orange; red
General Description:
North American Reach (Though Not Limited To*): Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, Montana
134 skeins of DMC Pearl Cotton, Size 5. Paid $45 (includes S&H)... so only about 34 cents a skein!!!
A lovely teal thread lays in wait to be sewn with! Probably on something cute and awesome for our Treasured Times Quilting and Gifts wares :)
This was taken during our blog-banner making for the aforementioned business (http://www.treasuredtimesquilting.blogspot.com/)
This was in a Lotus thread making house on Lake Inle. On this lake, most houses are on pillars to prevent damage when flooding occurs. This is all the rolls of thread that are ready to be organized. I am not sure what they did with them but the woman did it with such precision. Something I could never do. She reorganized all 10 threads at the same time, truly fascinating!
Although eyebrow threading is a newer trend in western culture, it’s been widely practiced in the middle-east and Asia for hundreds of years, so it’s proven. It is easily the second oldest form of hair removal, the oldest is pulling your hair out with your bare hands and that just hurts.
A cute little pillow I made with hand sewn hexagons. This is for sale on Etsy at Endless Threads. Made September 2013.
The sticky tendrils of the Thread Leaved Sundew. The Sundew is a carnivorous plant which traps insects in its sticky fluid and digests them.