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The art in my studio

7/17/2013

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I've got a lot of neat sewing related artwork in my studio that hardly anyone gets to see. So today ... welcome to my studio walls.
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I start with a gift from Betsy Burger, my friend and the design director at Simplicity I work with. This is a page from a 1950s McCall's magazine.
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Next is a gift from my son Kurt, who gave this to me in honor of our cat and all the lace up Renaissance bodices I was making at the time.
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This is a small paper cut out I bought in China when I visited there in 2011.
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This is a small embroidered piece I bought on that same trip to China. I love the sewing machines, the cut out garment on the work table and all the finished jackets hanging at the top.
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This is a gift from Martha McCain. It's a reproduction of a painting by Jean-Edouard Vuillard entitled "Woman darning". A very peaceful piece to look at.
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This is a reproduction of a painting by Antoine Raspal entitled "The Couturier's Workshop, Arles, 1760." I purchased this a year ago to hang on the wall when I was helping a wonderful young designer, Celia Reyer, create her interpretation of an 18C garment on site at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC in 2012
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This is a little etching given to me as a thank you gift by a young woman who graduated with my son Eric from UC Berkeley. I gave her a little advice about working in the fashion industry and I got this wonderful piece of art. Her name is Tramaine de Senna Click on the picture above to see more of her art at her website.
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OK, maybe this isn't exactly about sewing, but it is the clock above my worktable. I recently brought it back from my mother's house. It was always in the room I slept in when visiting her. This was a gift to my mother by the artist Winston Smith. He is a well know artist who's work has been on the cover of the New Yorker to mention one place. Click on the photo of the clock above to go to his website.
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This tea pot is a gift from Simplicity. Every once and a while they used to give sewing themed gifts to all the freelancers. This sits on my window sill.
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And, I know this is stretching the term artwork, but I like this little button shaped paper weight!
... another Simplicity gift


One year they gave chocolate bars that looked like rulers ... but, I'm afraid that one didn't last very long. :-)

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