TRAVELLERS’ BLANKETS: recording stories in print and stitch
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Include the class for which you want to be waitlisted, your full name and mobile number. Our thanks!
Tutor: Dijanne Cevaal (Vic)
Include the class for which you want to be waitlisted, your full name and mobile number. Our thanks!
Tutor: Dijanne Cevaal (Vic)
My hand stitched Travellers’ Blankets are so called because they tell the story of a journey (symbolic or otherwise) through stitch and colour, through embellishments and emotions, fragments collected over time, stitched and embellished to create a wonderful whole. This workshop is all about creating multifaceted stories expressed through print, colour, layering and stitch. We begin by making linocuts; a dynamic process, requiring strokes and graphic detail to create multi-coloured impressions on fabrics. These vignettes can reflect snippets of stories, inspiration from nature, abstract shapes, symbols, or motifs. The resulting prints are then incorporated, layered together, and embellished with hand stitching. Stitch is the writing that binds the printed elements together. The process is personal and individual, like handwriting. It is also mostly intuitive, though if you like structure and order various options are offered to develop your work in this way. Both the print and stitch elements of this workshop cover various design options, techniques, and the use of colour to create contrast and effect. Along the way your piece will start to dictate its own rhythm, structure, and colours, culminating in works that are personal and particular to each of us.
Material Fee: Approx. $30
Material Fee: Approx. $30
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Bio
Known for her blog “Musings of a Textile Itinerant”, Dijanne Cevaal is based in the Latrobe Valley area in Victoria but teaches worldwide, predominately in France. Her work is inspired by nature, her surroundings, and travel. She uses dye and print techniques to turn white cloth into a multi layered textile creation embellished by hand and machine. Much of Dijanne’s work also incorporates stories that are the textile equivalent of written stories. The travellers’ blankets are meditations in stitch on various places travelled to, both in reality and in the imagination. She uses her linocut printed fabrics to create little vignettes as vehicles for the stories that are told in the bigger pieces. These pieces are also observations of the world around us. Website: www.origidij.blogspot.com Instagram: @origidij |
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