I made these two neck pieces for a show and auction called Romantica, in mid-February this year. Just around St Valentine's Day, the theme was naturally everything conceivable under the title.
For a change, I wanted to do something quite subtle and soft, deceptively conservative and even repressed, but with a twist. So I thought embroidery, that traditional ladylike past-time to ponder all kinds of things on long afternoons, and that I still had to learn at school, was the perfect way to adorn some silk flowers.
Which came with really quite prominent centre parts ; )
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Like a Virgin I (2010)
silk flowers, glass beads, crystals, antique imitation pearls, antique catch
Like a Virgin II (2010)
silk flowers, glass beads, crystals, antique imitation pearls, antique catch
Both sides were embroidered.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
subversive embroidery a.k.a the devil made me do it
Labels:
contemporary jewellery,
embroidery,
my work,
needlework and french were never waisted on me,
romantica
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Inari K.
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Oh these are gorgeous!
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