Thanks, Lorri. The lace I have in mind will be an interpretation of the second painting on the page, the center section. I won't be creating something new, just interpreting it in a different medium.
This is already so much fun, though I am at the very beginning stage of studying the image and imagining it in lace, thinking about techinques, colors and threads. I'm quite a conservative person who likes to tred in well-used paths, so this is really a departure for me! Sr. Claire On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 18:00, Lorri Ferguson <lorri...@msn.com> wrote: > I don't see any copyright issues here at all. You are taking inspiration > from the painting(s) and creating a totally different work or 'art'. > Do keep us up to date on your progress! And good luck to you. > > Lorri F > > > > From: quietasa...@gmail.com > > Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:55:42 +0200 > > Subject: [lace] Lace from a painting > > To: lace@arachne.com > > > > > I have decided to embark on a new adventure in lacemaking! This will > > actually represent two departures for me, since I don't work in color (I > do > > mostly altar linen and traditional patterns) and I've never tried to > design > > my own pattern beyond the simplest. > > > > A friend of mine in the US sent me the catalog from an exhibition of > > Australian Aboriginal women's paintings called "The Painted Song". Many > of > > these paintings have a very "textile feel" to them and some of them > depict > > the witiji (hair strings) that are given by men to women to mark > significant > > life events. So, from fiber to two dimensions, back to fiber. > > > > I want to take a detail from a painting by Pansy Napangardi, which can be > > seen online at <http://tinyurl.com/6j8pcnj>. The part I want to > interpret in > > lace is the central feature. The sinuous line in the filling is just > crying > > out to be made in punto mimosa and the dried berry clusters in the > carrying > > baskets (the oval shapes at six and two o'clock) can be done the way > flowers > > are made in Cantu lace. The U shapes (representing the two traveling > women) > > and their digging sticks (the adjacent straight lines) I see as little > round > > tallies between plaits. > > > > I still have no idea about the filling through which the mimosa will > snake. > > I'm thinking about something using two or three colors in the passives, > and > > maybe a very loose and airy cloth stitch. Or maybe I'll do some sort of > > complicated weaving of plaits. > > > > Since this is just for my own pleasure and the joy of challenge I don't > > think there are any copyright issues, are there? > > > > Does anyone have any comments, suggestions, caveats? > > > > Thanks! > > Sr. Claire > > > > - > > To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: > > unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to > > arachne.modera...@gmail.com > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
