2017

We move forward from two successful exhibitions in 2016 in Prague and in the USA to the challenge of an exhibition in the Netherlands in the Autumn. We continue to work on A2 sized pieces in portrait format and will be producing four pieces over the year with the theme of 'Freedom'. An essential part of our art is working in series to a common format which does give us all a framework for our creative endeavours.

Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Indian Textiles

Here is my next quilt in the series inspired by Ethnic Textiles. This time it is India

There is something about seeing a pile of textiles in a a market that I love. Carpets in Morocco, Kelims in Turkey and bits of textiles in India. I seem to have a large collection of these photos.

I wanted to make my quilt look like a pile of textiles which proved to be quite a challenge. I padded each row.





I have used screen printing, block printing and stencilling to make the individual "quilts".
The cowrie shells and buttons are screen printed. I added a little hand stitching.


Here is one of the photos I took in a shop in India



I want to try to make a much larger version of this for the Contempoary Quilt Group Challenge - Horizon, to be displayed at Festival of Quilts in August
Gillian




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7 comments:

  1. Katia Oh27 March 2013 at 21:36

    Lovely! What a brilliant inspiration!

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  2. Magie Relph31 March 2013 at 20:04

    Excellent piece Gillian. I love the concept - it really works well.

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  3. ElaineRM3 April 2013 at 10:51

    The first thing I love is the colour, then all the different surface designs on the fabrics and how the whole lot goes together to look just like a pile of quilts. Gorgeous. Elaine.

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  4. Trish Graham9 April 2013 at 20:09

    wow, what a lot of work, and what a wonderful result. I am intrigued by the way the cowry shells seem to stand out, I thought they were sewn on at firstt. Very inspiring.

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  5. Miriam Weaver14 May 2013 at 07:30

    Wow beautiful! I've just found your blog via thread studio on Facebook. I'll look forward to seeing this quilt for real at the Festival of Quilts

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  6. Ada Plouvier-Kopitopoulou15 May 2013 at 05:59

    Beautiful colours and patterns. I really love the quilt

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  7. Rozizart26 May 2013 at 17:40

    Lovely textiles - colourful and cheery. Have shared on Pinterest.

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