Posts from the ‘Pillows’ Category
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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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| 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.
The pile method of organization. My worktable. I do what I can. Previews of pillows that will be finished and ready for sale first of the week. Please sign up at the right for free pillow give away once I’m up to 50 followers I’m giving one away. Hurray! Tell your friends.
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| This is not Zoffany, it’s vintage Claridge house. |
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| Egyptian applique. Made as tourist pieces. |
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| The darker red are an antique fez embroidery and the orange -not as old. |
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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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| 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.
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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| 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.
