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SCHMUCK 2011 Munich

Lisa Walker

lisa walker

Galleri Rah

helen britton

Hanna Hedman

Electroforming

SCHMUCK 2011

Off to Munich in 2 days to visit SCHMUCK 2011 in Munich-how exciting!

Lina Peterson

Embroidery Images

Reading Material

At home with the Gerogians (Behind closed doors) Amanda Vickery
The Gentleman's Daughter, Womens lives in Georgian England (Amanda Vickery)
Mrs Delany Her life and her flowers (Ruth Hayden)
Demons, Yarns and Tales
Luxury in the Eighteenth Century; Debates, Desires and Delectable Goods ( Maxine Berg and Elizabeth Eger)
The Rise of Design-Design and the domestic interior in Eighteenth Century England (Charles Saumarez Smith)
The Hare Witth Amber Eyes A hidden inheritance (Edmund de Waal)

18th century interiors

Here are some 18th century wallpapers resuced from London homes. I am now focusing on a specific period in time, editing my work and taking it forward. This is a particularly interesting time for me as it is a time when there started to be a segregation of males and females and when feminism started to fight against supression with the use of interiors

Mrs Delany

Mrs Delany was a member of the Bluestocking Brigade in 18th century Britain. She produced the most amazing emboridery, producing such fine deatil for the clothings of the royal court, but when her eyesight went she started to produce pictures out of paper, with the most immense detail. She was almost a botanist, inspired by images that famous Botanists of that time such as Ehret, Lightfoot and Miler brought back from their travels. Her scissor skills were the most detailed, later on producing silohette paper cut outs of domestic lifes