Each year our Embroiderers’ Guild have a super weekend school at Plas Tan y Bwlch in North Wales.
This year I chose to work with Anne Kelly, the tutor for ‘Travels in textiles’. I thought it also linked well with this current module. It was great fun.
Using maps, photos, postcards, fabrics and other bits, Pritstick and watered down PVA, threads and hand stitch, prints and text, I produced a zigzag book; a memory of travels to Vancouver Island last year with my husband.
Here are a few photos of the not yet but almost finished item:
Right hand end of the first length with buttons ready to add cords to fasten it together
One side of the book unfolded, showing glimpses around the coast of Vancouver Island
On the other side, the middle bit depicting the green tropical forests
Concertina book with the two sides tacked together.
The text added was from a book called ‘The elders are watching’ a beautifully illustrated book of land and seascapes interwoven with an environmentally conscious poem by First Nation’s artists.
I look forward to completing work on this.
Others in our group produced fabulous pieces and it was lovely seeing them altogether at the end of the course.
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