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| Antique 19th c Kuba Cloth Pillows. |
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| A group of 4– Zoffany print fabric from the 50’s. |
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| I removed the ball fringe from the original and reassembled & attached at the top of the pillows. |
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| Orange is a vintage phulkari, silk embroidery on cotton. |
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| Contemporary Indian block print in pink. |
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| Antique Moroccan embroidery. |
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| On the left vintage Indian gypsy quilt pillow. |
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| The reverse side of the Kuba pillows are a contemporary Indian raw silk. |
Above are pillow details from a group of custom pillows that I am dropping of today for Pat McGann Gallery. Pat McGann always has beautiful and out of the ordinary textiles. (Oh yes– we do custom pillows so email us for specifics). While I was uploading images this song came on my Pandora by Sun Ra–That’s How I feel. Which is fun to listen to while looking at the pillows–try it. Really.
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| She wanted to surprise every one by her dash and originality, but she could not help modeling herself on the last person she met, and the confusion of ideals thus produced caused her much perturbation when she had to choose between two courses. |
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| Homespun 19th c linen with vintage cotton thread. |
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| The chair is American, c1890. |
Quote from Edith Wharton, Custom of the Country. She is Undine Spragg:
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| Mola pictured with Indian gypsy quilt that I purchased in Rome…sigh. |
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| Tools of the trade. |
Pillow made from a Mola textile. Molas are made by the Kuna, an indigenous people of Panamá of the San Blas Islands. The Kuna technique has inspired by own needlework.The fabrics are appliqued or reversed appliqued and then cut away to reveal the layers underneath.
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| Here on the left is a Missoni Home Pillow. |
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| Here on the left is a dress that looks like it could be Missoni. |
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| It’s Joseph Magnin. |
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| It’s going to be pillows. |
This morning at the flea market I bought this fantastic chartreuse and gold zig zag metalic dress– I love some new pillows from it.
Scraps of fabric found on my work table, February 18, 2011. The flower appliques are from a vintage Hawaiian dress- bleached from a dark red. There are a couple different Christopher Farr Cloth fabrics, a vintage linen, a needlepoint and pieces from a 60’s hunting scene.
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| Dynamic Vertical |
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| Calming Horizontal |
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| Rotation –undecided. |
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| Reverse side of the needlepoints |
This is a pillow front that I haven’t made into a pillow because I keep thinking to have it framed for a wall and you can’t rotate that– the same as a pillow. 3 vintage needlepoints dyed and cut and surged together.
Moody. This is a linen fabric print. A Large stripe every 54″ with smaller stripes running through it. I cut it up and surged it back together to create an allover stripe. Arsenic, chartreuse, umber, ochre, ecru.
SWEET REFRESHING SUMMER …are the words du jour.
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| Are You There Andy? It’s Me, Daniel. |
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| Periwinkle & Orange & Pink |
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| Quilting! |
This pillow, an Andy Warhol inspired pattern if there ever was one, is one of those things that when I saw it I snapped it right up. I wanted it. I loved it. It was fantastic! Pause… I thought to myself: Wait a minute, is it ugly? It is ugly. It’s kind of ugly. I love it. I’m getting it.
I might take it apart and make a pair–but at the moment I like the color combo with the chartreuse velvet chair in my work room just too much.
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| Happy Valentine’s Day |
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| We Heart you. |
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| so do our rosettes |
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This is our second annual Valentine’s pillow. (We being me and my pillows). The background is silk. The red and pink is from a 60’s woman’s scarf. Cut into small circles and hand sewn. Not only inspired by Valentine’s Day, but also the quinceañera dress shops in Downtown LA and my favorite Pixie’s song in particular this video:
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| What do you do with old linen runner? |
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| Dye it and cut it up. |
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| Surge it back together and add more embroidery. |
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This pillows was made from a runner that my Great Grandma Childress had embroidered. It was tatty so I gave it a splotchy dye job and cut it up. The text is Sappho.
