| Title: | Canal flowers necklace |
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| Date: | Oct 2020 |
| Original Size: | about 20 inches long |
| Notes: | A reworking of my rainbow bobbin lace necklace. The WS&D National Exhibition title for 2020 (repeated for 2022) was "Cotton, Coal, Canals", and I designed this to fit in with that - basically added a zigzag inkle woven strip behind the flowers to give the impression of leaves. The resulting neckpiece is much more wearable than the original rainbow necklace First version was a rainbow necklace produced for the Birmingham WS&D Guild Annual Competition in 2017. Necklace in tatting with bobbin lace - the main thread is node tatting, with 4 small flowers on it. I used these for the centres for bobbin lace braided flowers using cold-dyed crochet cottons, and then added 3 more flowers in bobbin lace. For the National Exhibition I first added an inkle woven strip, zigzagged behind the flowers, and finally a ring of white daisies with blue centres, on a blue node tatted cord with jet beads. All the coloured yarns were dyed with Procion dyes |
| Groups: | Tatting |
| Weaving | |
| Textile jewellery | |
| Exhibited At: | Birmingham Guild of Weavers Spinners & Dyers Annual Exhibition and Competition 2023 Friends Meeting House Cotteridge |
| Hall Green Art Society Spring 2023 All Saints, Kings Heath | |
| Midlands Textile Forum Sense of place Nature in Art, Twigworth, Gloucestershire | |
| Midlands Textile Forum Sense of Place (Nottingham) Nottingham Society of Artists | |
| RBSA Friends January 2024 Brook Street Gallery, St Paul's Square, Birmingham |
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| Original Artwork: | Available |
| Price For Original Artwork: | £80.0 |
| Prints Available For: | £2.0 |
| Cards: | £2.0 |
| Postcards: | £0.4 |