@BrendaP ... I'm always interested and terrified in equal measures about textile artwork but seeing these Im wondering whether my Appliqued coastal cottage would have been allowed?
@Iminei It's not a case of "allowed" or "not allowed", it was the end of course exhibition by students on that course and the theme was the paths we walked through lockdown wherever in the world we are. I think
Fibre Arts Take Two do a similar thing with each course they run.
All of the pieces (except the photo!) would have used much the same techniques; dry collage of various fabrics and papers to get a background, temporarily held together with carboxy-methyl-cellulose (wallpaper paste) and then more layers of applique, and maybe found items, added then the whole lot held together with hand and/or machine stitching.
You probably didn't use the wallpaper paste - indeed that was new to most of us but everyone agreed that although initially messy it's much nicer to work with than other adhesives because when you get to the sewing stages as it doesn't clog the needle and also it's pretty inert and harmless. But otherwise, apart from not being the 3:1 landscape format, it would have fitted the brief although we were encouraged to dye/stain/mark fabrics ourselves and to upcycle pre-loved stuff. As is clear from the e-book everone's style is different, indeed it would be wrong if we weren't.
I haven't been doing much of it the last couple of weeks, but once all the Christmas stuff is out of the way I do want to get down to doing more of this sort of thing. Cas called it
painting with cloth.
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