Category: textile art
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‘Dolosse’
Dolos (or Dolus) is the name of the Greek spirit of trickery. Tricksters are shape-shifters, ambiguous, promiscuous, the clever fool. They are often defined by their duality. Tricksters, as part of the liminal process, are all around and help to shape the world. In modern times, think Bart Simpson, Frank Abagnale, Bugs Bunny, Tyler Durden,…
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Quilt update
It has been a few months since my last post. (Haha – that sounded much like a confession.) Lots have happened and life just got away on me a little. We started painting the house, yet to be finished, weather and other commitments permitting. I also wrote a proposal for a solo exhibition at a…
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Hoerdraad
This is a bit of a crass word in my home language, which loosely translates to ‘whore thread’. It doesn’t actually exist as a word and I doubt a lot of people would know the meaning of it, but in my family we know exactly what it means – I call it a ‘family heirloom’…
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Quilting in a small space
I guess the right way to go about creating a quilt would be to have a plan, or a sketch, or to roughly lay out all the pieces of fabric first to get a feel for the overall picture, and what the quilt would look like. However, I live in a tiny cottage (45m2 to…
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Quilt week #2
For as long as I can remember I’ve been making patchwork blankets for myself, family and friends. It consisted mostly of pieces of off-cut fabric, patterned in blocks or lines, machine stitched together and sown onto a backing, usually with an old worn out blanket sandwiched between the two outer layers, and finished off around…
Wouna le Roux 