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Embroidered tales and woven dreams" is a wonderful show of textiles from Central Asia and India - it's on till 25 March and is a nice quiet place to draw - not many visitors, which is unfortunate as the works on show are gorgeous.
My first choice was in a side room that might not be part of the exhibition, an early Islamic textile from Central Asia, 8th or 9th century, silk -
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Reindeer with antlers surrounded by S motifs for protection |
Inside the chequerboard, the squares are composed of several sections, almost like a log-cabin patchwork design. The colours have faded and what is now dark may have been green and blue, as well as the yellow and red and brown or perhaps black -
Yet again my good intentions to finish this off later in a colourful way came to naught -
A "Safavid chasuble in lampas" from 15h century Iran next caught my eye -
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Worn sections were patched with more fabric, carefully pattern-matched |
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White silks as well as gold-colour, on that blue background - a complicated bit of weaving |
I started with fine felt-tip pen and then switched to the freedom of pencil -
The crisp line of the pen is an invitation to lose oneself in ever more detail; it also can be used in a sort of hatching to represent the actual threads in the weaving. Perhaps it's a better idea to start with the pencil and add those hatched threads later with the felt-tip. Next time, maybe?
Elsewhere.......
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Jo's models in traditional middle eastern dress |
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Najlaa's "orange cloth" |
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Mags' close look at furniture and its shadows (more on her blog) |
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Sue's complicated fabric pattern |
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Judith's versatitility |
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Joyce's notes on embroidery |
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Michelle's details of patterning |
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Carole's "strange jewellery" |
Extra-curricular activities -
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Mags continues with her "train stitching" |
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Carol drew ancient statuary at the British Museum |
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Sue went to another Veterinary College evening session |
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Judith tried out different backgrounds on a copy of last week's work |
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Najlaa produced more marbling on fabric |
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Janet's Mexican bag is very much in the spirit of the exhibition |
Tool of the week -
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Very fine Mono rubbers; the slightly chunkier one is from Muji |
Addendum
My good intentions and conscience met in a moment of early-morning insomnia and I got the crayons out -
After sharpening every pencil in sight and dithering about colours, in the end I used only the red, a bit of grey, and the remains of my coffee.
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