Posts from the ‘Pillows’ Category
A sweet 15″ x 12″ pillow that I made from a fragment of a 19th c Ottoman towel for Pat McGann Gallery. I did a coordinating front band with linen back. These kinds of towels would have been used in the Turkish Bath, hamam, by wealthier patrons. What is amazing about these kinds of Ottoman embroideries is that they were worked so that the front and the back are the same so that there is not a back side. This fragment is almost naive compared to the detail that can be found in some examples. There was a good article about these towels and the hamams in Turkey in World of Interiors awhile back, if you can find it.
A pair of Swat Valley Embroidery Pillows that I made for Pat McGann Gallery last week. Cotton on Cotton.
These are a pair of pillows that I made awhile back for Pat McGann Gallery. The vintage hand embroidered panels are from the Swat Valley, Pakistan–an intricate silk embroidery on cotton.
This morning I looked at these pillow fronts –c1970 fabric–that I had not yet finished and thought, Row of loops across top! I added them. Thought & Action. They make me want to twirl around; spin them by their many loops, and do a little pillow dance.
This pair of vintage fabric pillows are part of a group that I designed and made for the new online shop Iron & Tweed, which BTW will be up first of April 1 if it all goes well. This is a vintage Indian cotton fabric which is not woven as one piece of complete colorway but individual colorways sewn together to create variation in color. It has the same 1970’s linen/cotton back that I’m totally crazy about right now. Not to mention the buckskin loops and vintage appliqued flowers patches.
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.
