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An Online Exhibition

On May 3, 2020, SJMQT celebrated National Textile Day by prompting artists, museums and other cultural organizations to post a fiber art piece that highlighted text. Everyone was welcome to participate on the social media platform of their choice and any language or symbol that communicated text was acceptable.

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Did you know that this Sunday is #NationalTextileDay? On May 3rd we'll be honoring this national holiday with the hashtag #TextOnTextiles highlighting fabric-based works with text! Go here or visit our homepage for more information on how to participate: sjquiltmuseum.org/text-on-textiles This Diner Quilt from our Permanent Collection (Unknown Maker, Cotton, Machine pieced, hand quilted) has us longing for a day where we can support our restaurants, diners and other eateries again. Take a closer look to see phrases such as, "Home Cooking," "Blue Plate Special" and "Cooked to order." Start thinking about a fabric work in your life that shows text and remember to post it for National Textile Day! #MuseSocial #MuseumFromHome #PassItOn

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Hand-stitched collage. Work in progress. Made from old clothes, dusters and stuff I found around my parents’ house, where I have been exiled for 12 weeks. Made in secret, averaging about an hour a day (today I got three), not long after dawn. This is my favourite time of year. Early mornings in May and June. I spend the rest of the year planning for it. I didn’t plan for this particular scenario, though. I’ve no idea what shape it will take or how big it will get. I guess it will come to an end when I finally leave, whenever that might be, and will end up documenting my time here. #ivegoneonholidaybymistake #imnotfromlondonyouknow #saatchitakeover #collage #textontextiles #handstitchedcollage #womenswork #feministart #lockdownart

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Been living with my parents for 9 weeks and 4 days. During that time I have managed to grab a bit of ungodly-hours-daily-stitching. I read a lot of of advice for would-be writers which goes something along the lines of writing a bit every day results in you having a lot at the end of the week/month/year. You may not be happy with what you have, but something is better than nothing. And you can work on that something. I think the same advice goes for artists. For as long as I can remember, my artwork has been an amalgamation of stolen hours. All pieced together at the end. You take what you can get, or nothing at all. Thank you to @simonwoodwood for the ‘flours’. It’s relegation for crisps. Hoping you all have a happy Sunday. If you are lucky enough to be tucking into the Observer (or other) right now, please consider giving me Cummings. Thank you. #dominiccummings #arttips #textontextiles #artistsupport #slowart #embroideryisart #textileartist #covidart #lockdownart #arttextile #handstitched

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Over 100 years before logomania dominated 1990s fashion, another trend encouraged men to wear advertisements on their sleeves: the cigar silk smoking jacket. These masterfully assembled garments incorporated the silk ribbons used to wrap bundles of cigars for shipping, each printed prominently with the name of a cigar brand. Popular in the late 19th century, cigar silk jackets combined the vibrantly colored ribbons in complex patterns with intricate stitching; they could have been made by professional seamstresses, but typically wives sewed them for their husbands. As men smoked in the evening, they donned the comfortably-fitting jackets to protect their clothing from tobacco stains - and for those looking to make an especially bold impression, the cigar silk jacket was the perfect statement piece. The example in the FIDM Museum collection was showcased in our 2016 exhibition "Man Mode: Dressing the Male Ego," and it's our contribution to #TextonTextiles in celebration of #NationalTextileDay! . . . . #FIDMMuseum #fashionhistory #menswear #cigarsilkjacket #cigarsilk #smokingjacket #manmode #fashionmuseum #historyofmenswear #fashionexhibition #logomania #fashiontrends #fashionfads #museumfromhome

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We could go on for a long time but for now, here's our final piece for #NationalTextileDay! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Image Detail: Tankfarm by Ginnie Hebert ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "The tanks containing radioactive waste on the⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Hanford Nuclear Reservation continues to have⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ problems with leakage. The article printed in this⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ piece is referenced below:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Macfarlane, Andrew. “Nuclear Waste Leak Continues⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ at ‘America’s Fukushima’; 33 Left Ill by Radioactive⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Fumes.” The Weather Channel. 4 May 2016. https://⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ weather.com/news/news/nuclear-waste-leak-continues⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ (accessed July 8, 2016)."⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #visionsartmuseum #artsdistrictlibertystation #quilting #museumfromhome #virtualmuseum #sdmuseumsathome #stircrazyvam @gomuseums #textontextiles

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Celebrating #nationaltextileday today with the hashtag #textontextiles. This is a piece I created a couple of years ago using hand-dyed fabric and digital embroidery. I often think of my role as a curator as ‘forecasting’ and predicting what people will want to see after distilling the current politics, social happenings and general feelings held by the public. We also sometimes work multiple years in advance so I wonder if whatever is relevant now will be in the hearts and minds 2+ years from now. Putting together a national hashtag was so fun today! I wonder if it’s a new way of curating for the future? #textontextiles #nationaltextilesday #sjmqt #curatorialpractice

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WORD SALAD - described as a ‘confused and unintelligible mixture of random words and phrases’ Sounds like someone in political office to me. 🤨 All my letters are done for #theproverbialquiltalong hosted by @dsquilts, @sewtopia and @thenextstitch. One paper “W” from the pattern by Denyse Schmidt @dsquilts as there is no “W” in my quote. 😬 Fabrics: ‘Big Sky’ by @surface_love from @modafabrics. Background is Essex Linen in Limestone from @robertkaufman. #dsquilts #denyseschmidt #mynextstitch #sewtopia #theproverbialquilt #proverbialquilt #proverbialquiltalong #intownquilters #surfacelovefabric #bigskyfabric #modafabrics #essexlinen #robertkaufmanfabric #robertkaufmanfabrics #robertkaufman #scrappyquilt #textontextiles #nationaltextilesday #sewyourscraps #sewyourstash #scrapmyisolationaway #irelandsews #sewireland #talesfromthecuttingmat

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Today is National Textile Day! Our neighbors at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles @sjmqt invited us to share a textile piece which showcases text to celebrate our mutual love of textiles and its many forms. #TextonTextiles This piece is by Terri Friedman, @terrifriedman_studio, whose woven textiles will be exhibited in the upcoming group exhibition “Personal Alchemy: Terri Friedman, Maria Paz, Muzae Sesay” opening to be announced. For Terri Friedman, making art is a method of healing by taking action against despair. Friedman relates the act of weaving to the connections of neurons in the brain. She’s interested in the brain’s capacity to create new neural pathways to work out negative thinking. Many of Friedman’s textiles in Personal Alchemy contain text that reflect both her anxiety about the state of the world and optimism towards its future, weaving the words “Awake,” “Now,” “SOS,” and “Wrong Way” through her panels. She uses color, abstraction, and text as “memorials of light coming through loss…all through a filter of optimism.” . . [ABOVE] Terri Friedman, “Awake,” 2017, Wool, acrylic, metallic fibers, 82 x 39”. Courtesy of the Artist. #nationaltextileday #nationaltextilesday #textontextiles

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I’ve been learning so much whilst working on @stitch_for_change project - from @pardo8915 & everyone else taking part. Really savouring the #slowstitching and meditative qualities of #handstitching & #embroidery. * Starting to put some of the skills I’ve been honing into work of my own - this is a WIP ‘War, what is it good for?’ * We’d love you to get involved in @stitch_for_change - your work can become part of a large scale #Pandemic Patchwork that will go on display when these tricky days give way to some normality. If you’d like more details you can visit us at Facebook or DM here on IG. . . #lockdown #lockdownlearning #textilearts #textontextiles #arpillera #arpillerastyle #patchwork

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#NationalTextileDay seems like a perfect day to share this costume designed by artist #HenriMatisse for a 1920 ballet that debuted at the Théâtre National de l'Opera (Paris). Throughout his career Matisse (French, 1869–1954) adopted different styles, but always sought "the essential character of things" to produce art "of balance, purity, and serenity.” In 1919, he was invited by Serge Diaghilev and composer Igor Stravinsky to work with them on "Le Chant du Rossignol (The Song of the Nightingale)," which was based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale "The Nightingale," and told from the point of view of a Chinese fisherman. Matisse accepted and in his designs, focused on “simple shapes, clear light and pure color,” seeing the costumes as “a painting, only with colors that move.” This silk robe has metallic embroidery and is part of the special exhibition "Art of the Stage: Picasso to Hockney," which presents nearly 100 years of original performance designs by iconic artists. The exhibition is currently dark due to our closure, so we're shining a light on it here! 🎭 Robe for the Emperor in Le Chant du Rossignol (The Song of the Nightingale), 1920, Silk with metallic embroidery and metal studs, Gift of The Tobin Endowment, Collection of the McNay Art Museum. Art of the Stage is organized by @mcnayart Museum. #MFAfromHome #MuseumfromHome #matisse #Theaterart #Costumes #PerformingArts #TextonTextiles

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To celebrate #NationalTextileDay, here's the entirety of A Red Book. The carousel format crops it square, but you can read the whole thing on my website. "...when re-establishing the connection between the written text and the textile, we must also concede that there exists a significant relationship between women, who wove textiles, and textual production. By recuperating a textile history and including it in our awareness of literary history, we will recover a large community of female authorship... I am arguing for an expanded definition of literary history, one that includes this larger group of women who, from the beginning of ancient civilization, participated in the traditions of mythmaking and storytelling, preserving as well as perpetuating these stories in designs of woven fabric... during the time when weaving and story telling were analogous, female participation was not always marked as subculture, but that women's endeavors were equal to culture and were not considered beneath culture or marginal to it." Kathryn Sullivan Kruger, Weaving the Word: The Metaphorics of Weaving and Female Textual Production #textontextiles #nationaltextilesday #weaversofinstagram #handweaving #weaveweird

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Happy #NationalTextileDay! Our love of textiles is boundless - just like textiles themselves and the ways they help us express ourselves. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Stay tuned for more #TextOnTextiles pieces throughout the day and make sure to share your favorite pieces with the #TextOnTextiles and #NationalTextileDay tags!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Image Detail: Word for Word by @jetteclover⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "I was a journalist before I became an artist, and now⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ stitching has become a new way of writing for me."⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Thank you to @sjmqt for inviting us to participate!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #visionsartmuseum #artsdistrictlibertystation #quilting #museumfromhome #virtualmuseum #sdmuseumsathome #stircrazyvam @gomuseums

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In response to #TextOnTextiles I have put this piece of work forward; ‘Not a Shred of Truth. The work is about lack of truth at a time of Fake News and obfuscation with the challenge that our view of truth is very closely tied to our perspective on what is true. I made the piece in 2019 but today it seems to hold even more resonance in this time of Covid-19. The work links both Text/Language and Textile via the use of metaphors associated with the production of textiles, ‘Spinning a Lie’, ‘Unravelling of Truth’ and so on. The setting for the large-scale work is in St George’s Hall Old Courts, Liverpool, UK. In developing the work I used print, appliqué and hand embroidery. A lot of my work does include the use of text which I find quite interesting being dyslexic. For me the power of the word has always been present along with the inability to always recognise when a word is misspelt. #TextOnTextiles #sjmqt #societyofembroideredwork #prismtextiles2020 #prismtextiles #fabricofprotest #fakenews #textilemetaphors #obfuscation #applique #embroidery #embroideryart #handembroidery #handembroiderywork #truthanddenial #embroideryfineart #uktextiles #NationalTextileDay

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Happy National Textiles Day! To celebrate, we're joining the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles and sharing #textontextiles. These are some selections from SAQA Global Exhibition "Textile Posters". Learn more at www.saqa.com/art. @sjmqt ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Artwork details: (1) "I Will Not Be Silenced" by Betty Busby @bbusbyarts (2) "Chien Blond" by Christina Blais @christina_blais_art_quilter (3) "3 Wise Words" by Claire Passmore @claire_passmore_textiles (4) "No More Labels: A Plea for Civil Discourse" by Margaret Phillips ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #artquilt #saqaart #TextilePosters #NationalTextileDay #BettyBusby #ChristinaBlais #ClairePassmore #MargaretPhillips #saqaartist #fiberart #fibreart #textileart #textiles #quiltersofinstagram #art #quiltinglove #patchworkquilt #appliquequilt #saqa #quiltart #artists #sew #thread #fabric #textiles

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Continuing to explore #textontextiles. This time with diversified plain weave. Note that the first image is inverted so that the text is easily readable. This is only a sample and I wanted to: 1) Explore diversified plain weave with smaller yarns. I’m using @websyarn 10/2 cotton for my thick and @aurifilthread 50 wt sewing thread for my thin sleyed at 60 epi 2) Find out if working at that sett and with sewing thread would drive me batty (it did not, although the piece is only 5.5 inches wide) 3) Explore color. The thick warp is white but I am using 4 different colors of thin across the piece. So far I’m preferring the sections where the thin warp and the thick weft match and the thick warp and the thin weft match. #weaversofinstagram #avlkseries #avllooms #swgonmyloom #complexweavers

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Happy #NationalTextilesDay ! Today, we’re joining the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles (@sjmqt ) in the campaign #TextOnTextiles to introduce fiber-based works with text. • Our picks are two fashion designs by Céline Semaan Vernon of the Brooklyn-based design label @theslowfactory . Featured in Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's exhibition “Contemporary Muslim Fashions,” Vernon’s works focus on human rights and sustainability stewardship through fashion. • The “Banned Scarf,” launched in partnership with the ACLU, is printed with NASA satellite imagery portraying the Muslim-majority countries included in President Trump’s original immigration ban in 2017. In the same year, the designer also presented the “US Constitution and First Amendment flight jacket,” responding to the ACLU’s campaign to write the First Amendment in Arabic. The reversible jacket features the text of the First Amendment in Arabic on one side, and in English on the other. • To learn more, visit the virtual walk-through of the exhibition here: https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2020/04/24/contemporary-muslim-fashions-virtual-tour/ • Images: Installation image, Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Céline Semaan Vernon (b. 1982, Lebanon) for Slow Factory (est. 2012, United States); BANNED scarf; 2017; Cotton and silk; Courtesy of Slow Factory Céline Semaan Vernon (b. 1982, Lebanon) for Slow Factory (est. 2012, United States); “US Constitution and First Amendment” flight jacket; 2017; Screen-printed polyester; Courtesy of Slow Factory

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American rug hooker Patty Yoder conceived of her designs as “paintings with wool to be hung and enjoyed as art.” The Alphabet of Sheep, a series of 33 hooked rugs that was also published as a book in 2003, was a project that combined two of Yoder’s favorite things: illustrated alphabet books and the sheep, goats, and llamas at Black House Farm, her Tinmouth, Vermont, home. While these rugs celebrate Patty’s friends, family, and animals, they also connect Yoder’s work to a long tradition of rug hooking in New England. In 2000, Vermont’s state Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples were entitled to the same rights as opposite sex couples, thus making Vermont the first state in the U.S. to give full marriage rights to same-sex couples. Writing about H is for Hannah and Sarah, A Civil Union, Yoder commented, “I hooked this rug with great pride in the state of Vermont and with great hope for the future of the United States of America.” H is for Hannah & Sarah, A Civil Union will be featured in our online exhibition, “American Stories” opening Saturday, May 16. #ShelburneMuseumFromHome #ShelburneMuseum #MuseumFromHome #TextOnTextiles #NationalTextileDay #AmericanStoriesOnlineExhibition #Vermont #CivilUnion _ Patty Yoder (Tinmouth, Vermont, 1943-2005), H is for Hannah & Sarah, A Civil Union, 2000. Wool and cotton, 32 x 32 ½ in. Gift of the Yoder Family. 2010-98.24.

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MCD is celebrating #NationalTextileDay with two of our favorite #TextOnTextiles 🧵⠀ ⠀ @benvenom uses both symbols and text to communicate, calling a symbolic language of tattoo, occult, biker and heavy metal imagery into being. His quilts include traces of words or phrases; signposts in the symbolic narratives appliquéd on recycled fabric.⠀ ⠀ While @liacook2's pieces don't use verbal/textual language, they do show communication patterns. Lia studied viewer’s brain’s responses as they looked at her woven textile pieces, and then visualized these patterns as an overlay on top of the base image. Each piece in the series is unique to a different viewer’s brain.⠀ ⠀ Visit past MCD exhibitions through the link in our bio or at sfmcd.org/exhibitions⠀ ⠀ [Ben Venom, 'Don’t Tread on Me!', 2016. Image courtesy of Lucas Saugen.]⠀ ⠀ [Lia Cook, 'Su Series', 2010-2015. Image courtesy of Lucas Saugen.]

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Here’s a little incidence of #textontextiles for #nationaltextileday - the #rhinocerosproject Reading Room and Ephemera Collection Sign - recently completed for our show @mendocinoartcenter this past fall. @michellewilsonprojects and I have been building The Reading Room and Ephemera Collection since our first show/installation/residency @ramonstailor in 2016/17. It houses texts that inform our project - from absurdist literature to scholarly work on the sixth extinction - as well as objects - both magical and documentary - that we’ve made and collected along the way. The embroidered sign was made in this spirit - the backing fabric, fringe, loops, Pom poms and embroidery floss are all remnants from the making of the tablecloth for our sewing paraphernalia table made while in residence at @sjmqt with their abundance of beautiful upholstery material. The aardvark patch, which I just happened to have along with the rhinoceros at the other end, is a shout out to @sullivan8066__ former curator of @janetturnerprintmuseum who so generously hosted us for several days in 2017, and showed us a Turner print of an aardvark that rivals Durer’s rhinoceros in her curious gaze. Scroll through to see the orientating tablecloth, now complete with compass, and the original digitally designed sign - here printed by @kent.manske and @nanwylde for #ecoecho @workssanjose 🦏 I’m immensely thankful for everyone who has shared in this project along the way! Looking forward to more! 🧵

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Don't forget to join in on our celebration of #TextOnTextiles for #NationalTextileDay!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Image Detail: Incidents of Travel by Brooke Atherton ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "“Have you found what you were looking for,” she asked.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ My meandering path (the red line) crosses a continent to a landscape where mountains dramatically rise up from the plains; there I accidentally found the people who have helped make it my home. These friendships have been the planted seeds that flowered and turned it into a place of⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “coming from and going to.”⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In my work, I use things I’ve collected that have a direct connection to the people who are so important to me. I record stories of travel, incidents of history, notes on change, voyages in time, artifacts, maps, photographs, drawings, objects dealing with a site of importance, a place of meaning, a location of the spirit, a fragment of bone, a petal of a rose. I have found what I was looking for, but there is much more to explore.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “She smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.”⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ (This statement is composed of quotes from twelve people as we discussed the importance of our communities in our lives.)"⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #visionsartmuseum #artsdistrictlibertystation #quilting #museumfromhome #virtualmuseum #sdmuseumsathome #stircrazyvam @gomuseums

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And our third piece! Can you make out what it says? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ImageDetail: Time to Relax by Susan T. Avila (@stavila1456)⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "Since 2010, my colleagues at UC Davis have worked with students to promote awareness of women’s heart health through an annual red dress project. Through their efforts, I became aware that heart disease was the number one killer of women, killing more women than all forms of cancer⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ combined. In 2012, someone I knew well, who was younger than me, collapsed and went into a stroke-induced coma; she died five days later. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This event helped me take stock of my own personal health and inspired me to create a larger heart health project called Matters of Dis-Ease. My work illuminates and amplifies the many factors involved in maintaining optimum health. One of the key indicators of disease is stress and my most recent work focuses on stress reduction and the importance of conscious and mindful breathing. Time to Relax contrasts the busyness of life — visually represented through complex shibori patterns-- with barely visible⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ information commanding the viewer to “Take Ten; Take it Easy; Take a Break; Take Time Out, and Take a Breath.” The piece is designed to remind us that even in a chaotic world it is important to pause a minute before mindless actions (or tweeting)."⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #visionsartmuseum #artsdistrictlibertystation #quilting #museumfromhome #virtualmuseum #sdmuseumsathome #stircrazyvam @gomuseums #nationaltextileday #textontextiles

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I don’t normally post on Sundays, but today is #NationalTextileDay ! San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles has invited artists and organizations to share their textile work that showcases text. ⠀ ⠀ That just so happens to be most of my textile work :)⠀ ⠀ This is a little flashback Sunday to my weaving titled Recollection. You can check out the full piece on my website!⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #TextOnTextiles #sjmqt #weaving #textart #fiberart #fiberartist #textileart #textileartist #flashback #weaversgonnaweave #weaveweird #weaversofinstagram #weaversofig #weaverfever #wovenart #wovenwallhanging #modernweaving #weavingstudio #fiberstudio #textilestudio #handwoven #weavinglove #textartist #rvaart #rvaartist #wovenwallart #slowmade #craftart #makersmovement

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The #rhinocerosproject embroidery is a sort of tapestry of stories - @landlookersociety and I have the unique perspective of looking at all the stitches, and while I don’t remember who did everything, there are numerous stitches that I see and remember who and what and where. In just this section, I remember @tintanoctis sewing the letter C, that cute kid at the @kalaartinstitute during the @100daysaction event sewing the letter O, finishing #albrechtdürer’s initials at the @salinaartcenter in a circle that included @aheartybreakfast, @fourletter and my mom! and completing the last letters of the word “rhinoceros” at @shotwellpapermill. The final piece is a whole interconnectioned storyline. Today, for #nationaltextilesday, in support of @sjmqt, I’m posting this #textontextiles in honor of the many hands that sat and stitched with us around the #rhinoceros. #tapestry #embroidery #bordar #bordado #sanjosemuseumofquiltsandtextiles #sewingcircle #communityart #socialpedagogy #dürer #kunst #kunstwerk #stillcantbelievewefinishedit

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Happy National Textile Day! As part of the #TextonTextiles challenge, we’d like to share the words of encouragement found on this kanga. The Swahili proverb written here translates to “do not be discouraged,” or “do not give up,” words that resonate with many of us right now. Kangas are popular garments in East Africa where women often wear them in pairs (as wrapped garments and headscarves), using the specific patterns and proverbs as a form of self-expression. When new migrants arrive at the Kenyan Kakuma Refugee Camp joining nearly 150,000 people largely from South Sudan and Somalia, the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund gives them “dignity kits,” which include Kangas similar to this one. This kanga was featured in the exhibition Unpacked: Refugee Baggage in the #LMTGallery #dontbediscouraged #unpackedrefugee #textiles #HLATC #uwsohe #textilecollection #nationaltextileday

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Happy National Textile Day — the day to celebrate all the fiber arts! To celebrate, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles encourages all fiber artists to post work today that incorporates text using the hashtags: #textontextiles #nationaltextileday and #sjmqt What a great combo celebration! I decided to share some of my stitched paper artwork that combines my monotype printing on paper with some antique paper from a Japanese book I found at a local antiques shop. I realized the mulberry paper used for the printed book pages is almost the same as the paper I use today in my monotype prints! This book must be at least 100 years old, perhaps older. I’m not sure what the Japanese text says, but I like the texture of the kanji characters. The last two images of this post show the original book, and it’s cover which is beautifully embossed. These three pieces of artwork are called Dwelling, Balance and Twist. They are all stitched paper collage, combining my monotype prints with the antique Japanese paper from the book. I love this palette of black and white, with some grey and creamy tones. It’s one I come back to again and again. Happy National Textile Day… go make some art! #textileart #artquilt #stitchedpaper #stitchedpaperart #stitchedpapercollage #contemporaryart #modernart #stitchedart #artwithtext #monotype #monotypeprint #monotypecollage #japanesepaper #mulberrypaper #papercollage #blackandwhiteart #contemporaryinterior #moderninterior #minimalpalette #minimalistpalette

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The bed rug was one of the costly furnishings that adorned the early bedstead. Into the late 18th century, New Englanders seldom placed rugs on the floor (which was usually covered with sand, straw, or woven mats), instead carpets and rugs were primarily used to cover tables, chairs, and beds. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Although imported bed rugs were available, many needle workers in New England—and Connecticut especially—made their own rugs based on popular designs. The stylized flower and vine motifs were adapted from Renaissance designed published in pattern books. The same books were used by Colonial American artisans for decorating furniture, silver, gravestones, and printed papers. #NationalTextileDay⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣ Philena McCall (1783–1822), Embroidery of running stitch with a cut pile on a wool tabby weave foundation. American Decorative Arts Purchase Fund, 1972.11⁣⁣ #thewadsworth #museumfromhome

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