| Title: | No Shrinking Violet |
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| Date: | Jun 2018 |
| Original Size: | 6 foot tall including hat |
| Notes: | This is a collection of upcycled garments produced for the MTF No Shrinking Violets exhibition. I imagine this is a mature (widowed, like my great-grandmother?) woman. She is wearing subdued colours in her skirt, as befits a widow, but has gone to town on the violet blouse, and the purple green and white flowers on her hat. The overskirt was converted from an evening dress of my great-aunt's (probably 1950s), the underskirt uses a bit of older lace, which had already been recycled once, mounted on purple satin. The blouse was a pale lilac one, redyed to attempt to give the impression of a violet, with a bit of dyed lace added to give a peplum. Belt buckle 1920s, which I wore on a cloak in the 1970s. The hat was second hand (probably 1980s) machine embroidered and stiffened with PVA. Hat is for sale, the rest of the costume not. |
| Groups: | Textile pictures and exhibition entries |
| Textile garments | |
| Dyeing | |
| Exhibited At: | Midlands Textile Forum No Shrinking Violets Here - Sewing the Seeds of Equality - expanded exhibition Nicholson Gallery, Leek, Staffordhsire Moorlands |
| Birmingham Guild of Weavers Spinners & Dyers Annual exhibition and competition 2018 Friends Meeting House Cotteridge |
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| Original Artwork: | Not available |
| Prints Available For: | £0.0 |
| Cards: | £2.0 |
| Postcards: | £0.2 |