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Beautiful Silks Workshops presents: Fiona Wright: STITCHING the FUTURE Friday to Sunday 15th, 16th & 17th October 2010
3 days $375.00 plus materials fee of $25.00 (see below for details) Women’s Stitching Tales ~ Story Cloths “Life is a journey, the destination is always the same: how you get there is your story.” Every cloth tells a story, the colours you choose, the marks you make, the marks it accrues over time all add to the memories and meanings it encodes. Choose a story that has meaning for you- perhaps your own, that of someone you admire or a fiction…spend a few moments, make a few notes before class [suggestions to follow on enrolment] and we will embark on this trail together. Many cultures have used a flat surface to tell a whole story, think medieval tapestries [Read the fictional story created by Tracy Chevalier of how the Lady and the Unicorn Tapestries came to be and some of the meanings embedded into them for inspiration], Kantha quilts of India, Molas of South America, these are all good places to begin a little research to get you in the mood… Other places to set the mood Blog “Spirit Cloth” and the work of Jude Hill. The work of Dr Skye Morrison on the “Stitching Women’s’ Lives” Project The website- www.redthreadranis.com Our days will be set out with the mornings for active construction- cutting, perhaps machine stitching, discussion…. The afternoons will be in a quieter mode; a time to stitch by hand, contemplate what you are building into your work, discuss ideas and have a good old chat over a cup of tea whilst stitching. Notes for preparations and requirements: Beautiful Silks is provising a dyed pack of mixed textiles to all participants. We encourage you to start the work as soon as you claim your spot! We will send you the pack, you then make a coloured background of a certain size. A paper template is sent with the pack, you then stitch what will become your background. On commencement of the workshop, small felt pictures, stitching and storytelling have already commenced. We also provide you with a theme....'my future'. Tutor Profile Fiona Wright has always loved textiles. Her practice and other loves over the last decades have taken her to live in exotic Rajasthan, from where she runs well researched craft tours, http://www.fionawright.com/ will find her current tour planner. Her knowledge of Indian textiles is growing, as she spends more of her life in India with Indian textile workers. Fiona's work can be viewed on her website, she is an inspiring teacher and artist who brings a unique spirit to Beautiful Silks workshops.
To enrol email: workshops@beautifulsilks.com or call (03) 9419 7745 |
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