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Illustration: Finnish embroidery 18th century The history of embroidery in Finland is made more complicated by the history of the country itself. For over five hundred years Finland was considered to be an integral part of the Swedish Empire, only to end that era by becoming part of the Russian Empire for just over a century
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Finnish Embroidery
Illustration: Random Ascent Denise Linet 2009 The work of textile artist Denise Linet resembles that of a complex assemblage of different mediums, experiences, and observations. Linet’s work incorporates a whole host of printing processes from straightforward dying and painting to the much more complex and accomplished process of the transference of photographic imagery.
Illustration: May Morris Battye embroidered tapestry (detail) 1900 May Morris is probably the closest William Morris ever had to a successor, even though she was heavily marginalised by the scale and popularity of her father. May Morris was a firm believer in her father, his mission and the aims of the British Arts & Crafts movement. May was an early convert to the craft and skill of embroidery and spent most of her life designing, publicising, and expanding the appeal and versatility of embroidery
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May Morris and Embroidered Tapestries
Illustration: Duncan Grant rug design 1913 Rug design may not immediately come to mind when thinking of the British twentieth century fine artist Duncan Grant, but he was involved, admittedly sometimes in an often minimal and oblique way, with the Omega Workshops project of Roger Fry. From some of the images shown here, and links to others, it is obvious to see that Grant along with his lifelong friend Vanessa Bell, were acutely aware of, and deeply involved in the new European abstract ideas being developed not only in fine art, but also at the leading edge of the decorative arts world.
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Duncan Grant and Rug Design
Illustration: Pan Pipes textile design by Harry Napper 1890s Harry Napper was probably one of the most influential designers connected with the prodigious and to some extent prestigious output of the London retail outlet Liberty. Although Napper supplied a number of textile designs, he was also involved in the design of carpets and rugs, furniture and metalwork, much of it for Liberty.
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Harry Napper, Liberty and English Art Nouveau
Illustration: Hindoo Ornament from Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament 1856 Owen Jones started his chapter on Hindoo Ornament in his groundbreaking The Grammar of Ornament first published in 1856, with an apology for the poor record that Britain had of early Indian architectural and ornamental decoration. He surmised rightly, that at some point in the future the British would have as large a collection and more importantly, the same level of understanding of Indian art and design, as they were beginning to achieve with that of Ancient Egypt for example.
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Owen Jones and Hindoo Ornament
Today sees the opening of the exhibition Warriors of the Plains: 200 Years of native North American Honour and Ritual at the British Museum in London. The exhibition puts together artefacts that focus on the various indigenous cultures that lived on the North American Plains between 1800 to the present day
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Warriors of the Plains: 200 Years of Native North American Honour and Ritual
Illustration: Selection of Chemehuevi basketry and pottery The Chemehuevi, like so many indigenous cultures across the South West of the US, were and still are expert basketry makers. The Chemehuevi have a long tradition of basketry that extends across countless generations. The basketry craft itself was the traditional domain of women as it was across much of North America
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Chemehuevi Basketry
Illustration: Honiton lace design 1910 The town of Honiton in Devon produced some of the most sought after lace in England. It was said that the town had been producing lace since the Elizabethan era, though it is now thought that serious production of lace did not begin for another century after that
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The Revival of Honiton Lace
Illustration: Woman’s embroidered shirt, Western Siberia Siberia is a huge sprawling and diverse area of the planet and contains a complex patchwork of people and cultures, from the original indigenous people, to those brought in through various waves of immigration from the Russian Empire through to the Soviet Union and now the Russian Federation. Although most areas of Russia have their own distinct embroidery traditions and skills and many may well have brought those traditions with them to Siberia, it is the indigenous cultures that make up the bulk of embroidery techniques and pattern work of the area. Among these indigenous cultures are peoples such as the Yakut, Evenki and Chukchi.
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An Introduction to Siberian Embroidery
Pat Dolan Earth Cells The organically inspired textile artwork of Pat Dolan can be viewed as both a reflection of the macro or micro cosmos that we live both with and inside. Dolan in fact shows us a world that we cannot see with our own eyes and very often find hard to perceive.
Illustration: Ernest Percyval Tudor-Hart First Sin tapestry 1961 Ernest Percyval Tudor-Hart was a Canadian fine artist who spent a large section of his career in Paris and London where he opened and taught in his own schools, within the first two decades of the twentieth century. Tudor-Hart moved in some of the best artistic circles in Europe and knew a number of artists including the Hungarians Alador Korosfoi-Kriesch and Sondor Nagy, and so therefore also knew the Godollo Arts & Crafts colony in Hungary.
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Percyval Tudor-Hart and the First Sin
The Aran Islands are a group of small windswept islands situated off the west coast of Ireland which has given us a unique and often copied knit genre. It is important not to confuse Aran with the Scottish island of Arran which has nothing to do with Aran knit and is in no way related or linked in anyway with the Irish Aran.
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Irish Aran Knit
Illustration: Navajo weaver 1903 It is believed that the Navajo learnt their spinning and weaving techniques from their neighbours, the Pueblo and Hopi. However unlike the Hopi, weaving was not considered to be a male preserve, among the Navajo women took over most of the spinning and weaving technology
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The Traditions of Navajo Spinning and Weaving
Illustration: Range of Apache basketry, 1907 The Apache people were skilled basket makers who traditionally produced a wide range of baskets for a number of domestic uses. The main categories of basketry that were produced include wide shallow trays that were used for winnowing, vase shaped baskets that were used for storing grain, bowls for preparation, and what are termed burden baskets for the general carrying of firewood, food and any other domestic item that needed instant and easy transportation
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Apache Basketry
Illustration: Byzantine Ornament from Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament 1856 Owen Jones placed the chapter on Byzantine ornament between that of the Roman and Arabian in his 1856 book entitled The Grammar of Ornament . This chapter sequence was always important to Jones as it set out his theories of who influenced who and who followed who, both culturally and historically
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Owen Jones and Byzantium
Illustration: Pazyryk saddlecloth depicting an elk It is now assumed by many archaeologists that the people, who were initially entitled as Pazyryk , are in fact either Scythian or at least a branch of that culture and people. The Scythians were a nomadic people who used the great plains of central Asia and southern Russia as their extensive homeland. Many different cultures have used the vast steppes of Europe and Asia for past millennia, but they have all shared a particularly common bond, seeing textiles as an important element of their lifestyles, even being seen as one of the main domestic ingredients of their mobile cultures
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Pazyryk Horsemen and Elks
Gerrie Congdon Sunset Composition 2009 The textile artist Gerrie Congdon produces work that deals with the elemental landscape. The natural world is such a large part of Congdon’s compositions that they set both the scene and the style of each piece. Her work forms a collage of experiences all of which are of the quiet, thoughtful and reflective variety, the best type when observing and representing the natural world.
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The Quiet Stillness of the Textile Work of Gerrie Congdon
Illustration: Icelandic Church embroidery Icelandic Christian based and themed embroidery started with the conversion of Iceland in 1000 to the start of the Protestant Reformation church in 1550. Icelandic religious embroideries were used throughout the numerous Catholic Church services and came in the form of altar cloths, chalice veils and a range of other church furnishings.
When talking about Tule River basketry we should of course be really talking about Yokut basketry. The Yokut nation originally consisted of over sixty diverse and distinct communities, all speaking a common language and sharing the larger Yokut culture, all living within central inland California.
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Tule River Basketry