Mosaic

Heres a mosaic I started to work on but abandonned based on Van Gogh's work. I liked it but wanted to produce my own scene of an Italian lake (which I have nearly finished). So I disassembled it and re-used the expensive Venetian Smalti (bought whilst on Murano) or my new scene.

And here's another mosaic group project that I am involved in, The barbeque fire and scene with the pond and birds is my creation. Its a question of whether it will be finished before the winter weather destroys it.

Murano painting and Textile ramblings

What a lot has happened since I last posted. There has been so much going on but I've managed to paint. Here's the latest I am working on from our trip to Venice in early summer. Its of Murano....

 

And here's a tapestry I made on my Masterweaver loom (which is really an 8 shaft caplable of taking textured yarns in the warp and not for tapestry at all). Think I might sell this loom soon but nobody knows what a Masterweaver is so who would buy? Hubby wants me to keep it.

 

I don't weave much now. I finished my 5 years at Art college with a Masters in Textile Design and spent quite a few years earning my living in the textile world, selling yarn designs, knitting pattern designs, bespoke woven lengths, knitwear (Harrods-shawls and ponchos) and translating knitting patterns and my favourite....textile art... here's an example of my textile Art made for Lloyds Bank Stourbridge about Blackcountry Industry.

  and here are some of my huge 30cm beautiful tassels made to match fabrics and commissioned by a local shop.I made lots of these and signed and dated each one. I wonder if they will ever turn up on an Antiques Roadshow one day?

I won't ever be able to make another tassel like these as I used to twist the yarn for the ropes using the height of our three story Victorian house (which we sold).