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These are a pair of pillows that are for sale at Pat McGann Gallery. I made them out of an antique Uzbeki ribbon combined with strips of silk from a mans Kimono. What you can’t see: a hidden zipper along the back and fully lined in a silver silk.
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| Stanley wants you to know these are his favorites. |
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| Ethnic woven patchwork |
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| on a Chinese horsehair chest |
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| Buckskin loops |
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| Navy zippers with pink and red pulls |
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| Zippers as part of the design. |
It’s dangerous to have Stanley paired with the pillows as the pillows will likely be overlooked, but he likes his photo taken. These pillows have a fantastic 1970’s back fabric. A linen cotton with pink & gray threads woven as warp and weft which creates a fantastic color.
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| Ever since I finished Tuesday’s pillow |
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| I’ve been focused on loops. These are leather. |
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| Surged with a flower patch from a vintage dress |
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| 1970’s linen-cotton backs |
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| Vintage scarf |
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| Silk: repatterned |
This is a pillow front that has not yet become a pillow. It’s from a year ago when I just liked doing fronts and not assembling them…I am in the middle of making a bunch of new pillows and haven’t finished any of them.
And this is my new table I got last week at the same sale as the embroidered table cloth. It’s pretty rough but it’s my most recent favorite color, yellow ochre.
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| One of a pair of linen pillows |
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| and here is number two. |
Where do they end up? Here’s a pair of pillows that I made from a vintage hand block panel of a scene of San Francisco: Chinatown, trolleys, and the Golden Gate Bridge. They have a new home with Ken in San Francisco.
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| Torn strips and braided together |
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| Made for my friend Tala’s Birthday. |
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| Purple Donghia fabric |
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| Memo sample surged edge |
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| Gold & silver shangtung silk. |
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| A loop |
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| Carry it |
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| Hang it |
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| 26×26 — a Sunday afternoon pillow making session. |
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| 2″ wide strips of silk surged to the face. |
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| Made to go with this 1920’s Samarkand Rug |
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| and are on their way to Hong Kong- bon voyage! |
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| Turquoise chintz embroidered with text and then dyed green- |
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| tea stained and ironed wet to force out the stain from the center. |
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| I like vintage zippers |
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| and showing my underwear. |
Someone asked me what it means. So, if I were to try to explain the feeling, I would say something like that it is all about remembering. Say you go to grocery store in your old neighborhood and you realize you haven’t been there for along time. You know where everything is and you know all of the people and you remember all their faces. It makes sense because you used to go there all the time and you used to see them. You then remember yourself there and you realize that those people are looking at you like maybe they remember you. But they are remembering the person that you used to be, who is not the person you are now, so they are remembering something that you are not, because you are different. So it’s all different, and it’s all the same. That is the feeling.
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Fantastic! I bought this on Tuesday from a woman who was moving out of her house. It is the most fantastic thing ever. I tacked it on a wall so that I could enjoy it for awhile. Linen Table cloth 1912-1947. The earliest signatures are fading and unraveling: Debbie Rowling 1912 & L– Rowling 1912 and Judy or John Brown 1912.
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Fantastic! I bought this on Tuesday from a woman who was moving out of her house. It is the most fantastic thing ever. I tacked it on a wall so that I could enjoy it for awhile. Linen Table cloth 1912-1947. The earliest signatures are fading and unraveling: Debbie Rowling 1912 & L– Rowling 1912 and Judy or John Brown 1912.
