On Textiles

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One of the privileges of knowing how to sew and mend is seeing something starting to tear or break and saying "oh no you don't! I still have use for you."

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Slowly but surely, the embroidery grows.

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I was gifted a tablecloth that used to belong to my great grandmother. She has started an embroidery, but never finished it. Since I'm into textile crafting my mother gave it to me.

The original parts are the beige and the markings. I decided to finish it, but instead of copying the original plan I'm going to make a diagonal rainbow gradient to make is very obvious where my great grandmother stopped and I continued.

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Finally finished this embroidery that I started about a year ago. I decided to use the same stitch as the Bayeux tapestry for extra medieval feel.

Pretty happy with it even though rhe right horse is pretty wonky due to me running out of space on the fabric. But it's fine, it's not like the originals were trying to be photorealistic 😉

This is the inspiration:

"Arthurian Romances". General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

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I might not be able to build a house or fix a car, but I can mend fabrics. This tea cosy will now live on for at least a decade more.

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Skirt-pouch, the final item I made in the first year of my education at Sätergläntan. I don't have much use for it unfortunately, but I was happy with how it came out so it's currently hanging on a wall in my living room.

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Current project is reconstructing a "bussarong", an workers shirt. The original (below) was owned by a man born 1863, now owned by Västerbottens museum in Umeå, Sweden.

I love focusing on a plain workers garment. Otherwise in my education we look a lot at fancier garments used during celebrations or when visiting church on sundays. This garment is for all of the other days.

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I'm currently living in a boarding school for crafts.

In the entrance there is a sheet hanging, I guess to hide the fact that people live here and have to put their jackets and shoes somewhere.

The fabric is nice, probably linen, so for so for the last couple of weeks I've been sneaking there during nights and adding embroidery.

I want to add small, silly embroideries to every dull public fabric! They're all canvases in my mind!

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I once bought a shoulder bag. When its edges started fraying and holes appeared, I decided to mend it until no trace of the original bag is left.

It was a military surplus bag, but with every mend it looks less and less militaristic.

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Speaking about having fun with a craft, this was an welt pocket sample I improved by adding eyes and teeth

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take figures out of their boxes btw. sew patches on your favorite jacket. go to bed with your favorite plushes. wear the pants you usually save for special occasions. draw something cool on your wall. put a sticker on your laptop. dye your hair and pierce your lips. glass is meant to break, metal is meant to rust. items are meant to be used. that's how the world knows that somebody loved them.

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Horse is on its way

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Work in progress, medieval lady boldly charging an soldier using a (soon to be added) distaff and spindle

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"What! We have another newcomer?"

Embroidered fanart of the Super Nintendo game E.V.O.: Search for Eden

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If you cannot have fun with a craft, it isn’t worth anything.

Make a weird little guy.

Out of clay, drawn on paper, embroidered. Bring them out of your imagination into the world. Forget about flaws, the world is now containing a part of your creativity that didn’t exist before and is now richer because of it.