King's lynn embroiderers guild Exhibition (2)

9. A display, 'My Textile Journey' by Sheila Cetti to demonstrate how her work has developed over the years from traditional patchworking through to Art , quilts, hangings and fibre bowls.

10 Splash by Linda Turner. This item shows the action of water when an object is dropped into it, something which is as old as time. Here the materials and techniques used are very much of our own time. Organzas are layered with various threads over water soluble stabilisers, held with free motion machine stitching, dissolved and burned.

11. A number of 3D items from the display table including slippers, needle cases , caskets, books and design material.

12 A machine embroidered panel by Rachael King entitled 'Starting Point'as an example of her early style.

13 An overview of part of exhibition hall.

King's Lynn EG Exhibition

1.The display of Gold work mirrors

2. The Goldwork mirror by Helen Pease Voted 'Best in Show

3. Interior of St Margaret's church. Silk ribbon overlaid by metallic mesh. Top section formed by using machine embroidery lace patterns over fragmants of silk and sheers. Mounted on a raw silk background and framed within an arch made from  from painted bondaweb over silk, padded and quilted.

4 The Arches of St Margaret's Church using cotton and sheer fabrics with wadding Trapunto and Quilting. Note the shadowy figures of monks outlined in each of the arches.

5. The arches and stained glass of  the Interior of ST Margaret's church worked in felt, sheer fabrics, hand painting with hand and machine stitch.

6. The Interior of St. Margaret's church worked on acrylic felt with applied layers of chiffon, bondaweb and transfoils, bonded and heat treated . The sections were then burnt back using a soldering iron to reveal the differing layers.

7. The interior of St Margaret's church worked on painted calico, paper , plastic and merino fibres.The stained glass was made from merino fibres stitched onto plastic; collograph print onto brown paper which was padded and stitched.

8. The Group of pictures with a print of the original painting

Woodland Pictures

WOODLAND PICTURES.

Having completed my City and Guilds Diploma in Creative embroidery and ,having had a rest from Textiles, I began to think about a new body of work. Inspired by the woodland scenes on Galle glass and Moorcroft Pottery designs I worked on anumber of sketches. From thes I produced a calico and vilene ' mock up' of a woodland scene

 





 

 

BACKGROUND

I began by painting the general background colours on to bondaweb and then ironed this on to the calico.

 

 

THREADS

I began to assemble threads and coloured organza in the coulours of Autumn woodlands.

 

 

TREES.

I experimented with fabrics for Tree shapes and eventually settled on layers of milliners net overlaid by sections of painted bondaweb from the background fabric.These sections were pulled into shape and stitched around the edge with machine stitching.

ASSEMBLY AND FINISHING

A curving path was made from crinkled organza. The bottom section was further defined by stitching narrow lines to indicate tree trunks receding ino the background and the formed net large tree trunks were placed on the composition. Shoots of grass were hand stitched and placed at the bottom of the large tree trunks. The tree canopy  was formed by stitching a variety of threads through orgaza layers fused on with bondaweb.  A setting sun emblem was constructed from flattend silk rod, orgaza and painted bondaweb while further distant tree tops were placed at the top right.

 

 

 

SURFACE DECORATION

In an echo of Galle etced glass and moorcroft pottery construction all the main elements were strongly outlined with close stitched black zigzag lines. The tree canopy was then further edged by long and short stitch worked by hand in a variety of metallic and silk threads. The outlines of the individual tree shapes were worked in a fancy fringed yarn, couched down through all the  layers.

The large tree trunks were further embellished by hand embroidered lichens and additional hand embroidery was used to give added definition to a number of features. The finished work is titled

 

WOODLAND AUTUMN SUNSET.

 

 

AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW

Having completed the Woodland Autumn Sunset picture I decided to employ the same techniques in a different colourway to give a different effect. This will be entitled

 

WOODLAND WINTER DAWN