tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33865629198012825642024-02-19T04:06:30.468-10:00threads from a liminal (p)lacetextile talks and other tales from third space and beyondAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12516292874373973827noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386562919801282564.post-37603920096104663912011-01-14T11:59:00.000-10:002011-01-14T11:59:48.838-10:00New uses for bark clothIt is time to make some more jewellery again. I felt tempted to use bark cloth. As part of the research for my studies, I had come across a German-Ugandan company that produces and sells bark cloth (http://www.barktex.com).
For a small cover charge I got interesting information about their bark harvesting and processing in Uganda. Remember that the Bible talks about Adam and Eve having to wear Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12516292874373973827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386562919801282564.post-42942127444909844832011-01-07T12:25:00.000-10:002011-01-07T12:25:15.738-10:00The benefits of being flexible
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Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12516292874373973827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386562919801282564.post-40849588346518361382011-01-02T18:15:00.000-10:002011-01-02T18:15:32.980-10:00A New YearWe’re at the start of another decade. I wish all of you that it will be a wonderful one, filled with good health, confidence, loyal friends, lots of creativity, success and prosperity. In short: May it be all you ever wanted!
As we sometimes do, on New Year’s Eve I looked back on the year that was leaving us. 2010 began with my packing up the lace panels that I had been making for Third Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12516292874373973827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386562919801282564.post-12400623030352153232010-12-25T00:56:00.000-10:002010-12-25T00:56:13.691-10:00Thoughts at Christmas
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Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12516292874373973827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386562919801282564.post-56848161850373883562010-12-05T01:17:00.000-10:002010-12-05T01:17:50.074-10:00Creative encounter
Tivaivai, the Cook Islands traditional textile art form, is very different to the quilts that most other countries make. For many years, I have held workshops in my Studio to share tivaivai techniques with quilters from around the world. Tivaivai are not quilted and consist only of two layers of fabric, a patterned top layer and the background fabric or backing.
There are three kinds of Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12516292874373973827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386562919801282564.post-31500733466080962452010-11-26T07:13:00.000-10:002010-11-26T07:13:09.612-10:00Hidden qualities
The most enjoyable works are those that speak to me right from the start. Two narrow strips of tapa blinked their holes at me and took me away to where the dreams live. After a day of dreaming and sewing, listening to great music and to my inner voices, a long strip was finished and ready for washing.
I like the stage when the bark is at its most vulnerable, floating in the water like angel’sAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12516292874373973827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386562919801282564.post-20334123268454825382010-11-23T13:50:00.001-10:002010-11-23T13:54:14.750-10:00Shadows of the past: HoardingAs a child from the post-war generation I grew up in half a house. The other half had collapsed when the house was bombed. Our apartment had a looong corridor on whose one end was a living room that would be dad’s bedroom at night and a bath room; on the other end a kitchen and the day-room, at night mum’s and my bedroom. When I was very little, there were no doors except for the main access to Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12516292874373973827noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386562919801282564.post-8220914327289455932010-11-19T15:12:00.000-10:002010-11-19T15:12:17.739-10:00Gaps
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Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12516292874373973827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386562919801282564.post-27081915160459343952010-11-13T18:53:00.003-10:002010-11-13T22:27:16.729-10:00TransparencyGauze is the thinnest of the materials I use. I love it for its transparency, the irregularity of its weave and the elegance of its movement. It is like a veil, covering, but not quite, revealing, but not all. Looking at a veil always includes an alternative. You can look through it and focus on what is behind it, because the partial covering makes you curious. Or you can study the veil itself. Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12516292874373973827noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386562919801282564.post-10854767415248690202010-11-12T22:40:00.001-10:002010-11-12T22:47:40.668-10:00CrossingWhen I look at the ‘fence’ that runs through the centre of my last panel, much of it looks woven. Wikipedia explains that “weaving is a textile production method which involves interlacing a set of longer threads (called the warp) with a set of crossing threads (called the weft)”. I like the word ‘interlace’. That ‘fence’ between the tapa strips is an “inter-lace”, if you think of it as a lace Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12516292874373973827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386562919801282564.post-37906834273612696922010-11-12T00:33:00.001-10:002010-11-12T07:18:13.151-10:00Deconstructing and re-composingIn order to combine the different materials, I sometimes deconstruct them first. When I do this to the beautiful long tapa panels I commissioned in Samoa, it always feels like breaking the material’s spirit in order to better manipulate and subject it to my will. Tapa making is hard work and best done in a group of people, mostly women. I made tapa myself, so I know what it is all about, and I Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12516292874373973827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3386562919801282564.post-40219916704815697322010-11-10T23:43:00.000-10:002010-11-10T23:43:06.309-10:00Third Space II - a work in progressIn February 2010 I exhibited “Third Space”, a site specific installation making reference to my liminal position between cultures. It consisted of 22 panels ranging in lengths from 2 m to 6 m, in width between 20 cm and 70 cm. Bark cloth, cotton gauze, bonded interfacing, Polyester thread and soluble stabilizer were combined to form composite lace.
Takamoa Theological College, Mission House, Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12516292874373973827noreply@blogger.com3