PieceWork, January/February 1995 Digital Edition
PieceWork January/February 1995 |
The Traditional Silk Braids of Japan |
Peruvian Maquitos: Colorful Sleeves Knit Traditions Together |
A New Eloquence: Northwest Coast Indians’ Button Blankets Journey to the Northwest Coast with Janet Berlo and share her captivation with the ornately adorned red and navy blue tribal capes she witnessed at community festivals. Janet describes the capes as being “further embellished with mother-of-pearl buttons, or plastic buttons, or rough abalone shell appendages, or metallic sequins. These button blankets move in the firelight or the spotlight as their wearers dance and make the eloquent speeches so fundamental to Northwest Coast Native American ceremonials.” You’ll learn the history of these captivating capes and enjoy the colorful photographs. |
Trapunto: A Gift of Light and Shadow Meet John Robert Degge, a harness maker from the 1850s, and his wife Mary, and learn all about the wholecloth quilt (a quilt constructed of one piece of fabric) designed by John and sewn by Mary for their daughter. This exquisite hand sewn quilt features hundreds of precise stitches and stuffed with a technique known as trapunto. This technique involves carefully moving the threads of the backing cloth aside, stuffing the motifs, and moving the threads back into place. Add further elegance and pleasure to tea time with a pattern and instructions for quilting your own trapunto tea cozy. |
A History of Costume in Miniature: Betty Kingsbury’s Figurines |
The Very Stuff |
Concernynge the Excellency of the Nedle Worcke Spanisshe Stitche |
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This issue was scanned from an original printed issue. |
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