Jan 10, 2025
guyyysss i finally finished this piece! took me over 2,5 years, 124250 stitches, and 180 thread colors. It is approximately 45x45 cm in size!
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guyyysss i finally finished this piece! took me over 2,5 years, 124250 stitches, and 180 thread colors. It is approximately 45x45 cm in size!
I'll admit I never fully got your gripe with shows and movies presenting embroidery as a silly women's diversion but now I've been dipping my toe into it as a hobby I'm like....this shit is SO hard and time consuming and making it look good is going to take SO much practice. I'd bite the head off any screenwriter who even hinted otherwise. I'll go to jail about it but at my trial I'll have a captive audience so who's REALLY losing here, huh?? HUH?!
it is. SO HARD.
I'm terrible at embroidery. it truly is an art form- and like most art conventionally associated with women, it's been undervalued for a very long time
like yeah it's not necessary for survival, but neither is painting in oils, and yet we have a dozen movies (correctly!) glorifying the work of skilled male- and occasionally even female -painters. where's the May Morris biopic?
look at that! Morris designed and made these bed hangings, with assistance from fellow artist Mary Newill! try to tell me that's not art; I dare you!
finished the applique on my Hawaiian quilt!
it’s an African tulip motif
it’s my first time doing needle-turn applique. now i get to quilt it
Got bored and messed around, found out natural henna powder when made into a thin soupy consistency is AMAZING at dying/staining wool!! I assumed it would do *something* because it dyes skin and hair so well, but I didn't expect such a vibrant color so quickly! I don't know how well it'll last or anything since I'm just getting into fiber arts/textile arts, but like look at this color😍 This is JUST raw (washed) wool dipped into the 'liquid' for all of maybe 10 minutes and rinsed, no mordant or anything of the sort. Needless to say I think the experiment is a success lmao
Tiger for @keefpiee ^_^
Melissa Joseph. Kindergarten Carnival, 2023.
Needle felted wool on industrial felt
Textile work is more important than you think, Arya Stark
More or less Arya (as well the ASOIAF and GOT fandoms) being told by her future sister-in-law Daria Umber why it is really IDIOTIC to view traditional feminine skills as not worth learning
“Miss Stark, have you ever bothered to even think of where the fabric or threads needed for various textile work comes from? Do you think that they are made out of thin air, and that you can just ruin your clothing as you please without caring of how that sort of behavior would horrify not only those who worked so hard to make said clothing before you began to wear it, or how it would look like in the eyes of those really poor people with only rags for clothing?”
There was something scary about the way Daria seemed to smile in a friendly way, and Arya just knew that she was in massive trouble now.
“Sewing is a survival skill, ” Daria said in the same friendly voice as she came closer to Arya and loomed over the younger Stark daughter, but her eyes did not match her smile, ”It is not something “stupid” to learn because without clothing to protect our bodies against the elements, we humans can not surive in extreme climates like north of the Wall in the Lands of Endless Winter or in the desert in the middle of Dorne. Sewing is needed to transform fabric into clothing and keep the pieces together. Embroidery in different colored threads and designs can transform fabric into a piece of art, and become far more worth in selling for money. Tailors and seamstresses make a living out of sewing and embroidering clothing. Spinners and weavers transform wool, flax, cotton and silk into fabric. By looking down on those who do all those works for a living, and on poor women who have to spin and weave their own fabric just to clothe their own family members because they can not afford to buy fabric on markets, you are insulting skills that have often been passed down for generations between women. Still think that sewing is not worth learning, Arya Stark?”
Link to chapter in question: https://archiveofourown.org/works/40588857/chapters/105235152