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Sewing Machines in Art and Music

2/14/2014

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The Artists Wife at the Sewing Machine, by Ignat Bednarik
I'm wrapping up Sewing Machine week with a little art and music.

Many artists have painted sewing machines and women using them. Sewing machines actually used to look like pieces of art.
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I've seen many tables made with the legs and treadles of old machines.  This one here is particularly beautiful, I think.

Click this link for a whole page of fabulous imaginative furniture using old machines on Pinterest.
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Sometimes sewing machine parts are used to make a piece of art like this piece "Walking Ship" by Greg Brotherton from the future Museum of Realist Art in East Boston. 
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Have you ever been in an All Saint's store? The first one I saw was in London, but they are in many cities around the world now. There is one in New York, for sure. I should write about their clothing in some future blog, because it is really interesting, but everyone of their stores is filled with vintage sewing machines.  Usually in the windows, but often all over the store. Here is a photo from the New York store.
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This man has done something really interesting with sewing machines. His name is Martin Messier.
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This from the Youtube page ...
MESSIER DOESN'T SEW : HE RESUSCITATES OLD SINGERS PUT ASLEEP YEARS AGO IN ORDER TO RELEASE, IN SOME MAGICAL WAYS, THE LUMINOUS AND SONOROUS PRESENCE OF THE PAST. HE CARRIES HIS PUBLIC IN A DREAMLIKE UNIVERSE WHERE EACH MACHINE, AS SINGULAR SUBJECT, IS MAGNIFIED. AFTER YEARS OF SILENCE, SEWING MACHINE ORCHESTRA IS GIVING SPEECH TO THESE SURVIVING OBJECTS OF THE INDUSTRIAL ERA.
Here is another video of cool a musical sewing machine on Vimeo.  I can't figure out how to embed this one in my blog. You will have to click on the link to see it, but please do, it is really interesting. It is by lara grant - you can see her other work if you click on her name.
And I conclude with an honest to goodness "Sewing Orchestra" It is from the Ridtweld Academie Fashion in Amsterdam. Many of you know I am a flutist and a classical singer. My college degree is in music, so I particularly like this one.
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Ellen Zuby link
2/13/2014 10:38:02 pm

Love all the posts on sewing machines. I am lucky enough to have inherited my grandmother's old treadle Singer. Both my grandmother and mother were seamstresses and sewing machines seem as ordinary to me as chairs. Your posts this week were most welcome to one confined to the house by snow and ice.

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