Showing posts with label Sewing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sewing. Show all posts

Saturday, June 16, 2018

SUMMER Spin -Time to Head Outdoors to Spin the Wool & to Fall in Love

Meeting of Saint Margaret and the Prefect Olibrius by Jean Fouquet. 1452 -60 for Étienne Chevalier.  A common image in medieval manuscripts is a woman spinning while standing, often the lady is depicted spinning wool amongst sheep.

A textile is a fibrous substance, such as wool, cotton, flax, or silk, that can be spun into yarn & woven or knitted into cloth.  Stone Age peoples wove nets, baskets, mats, & belts out of reeds, grasses, & strips of animal hides - and this eventually led to the creation of fabrics to substitute for the animal skins which often served as human clothing. Ancient textiles were made mostly of linen, cotton, wool, & silk. Spinning & weaving were mentioned in the Bible. 
From Exodus 35:25 Every skilled woman spun with her hands & brought ...... All the women who were skilled in sewing & spinning prepared blue, purple, & scarlet thread, & fine linen cloth... 
From Proverbs 31:19 In her hand she holds the distaff...Her hands are busy spinning thread, her fingers twisting fiber. ... She extends her hands to the spinning staff, & her hands hold the spindle...

As civilizations developed, the people, the fibers, & the different methods tools invented for turning the fibers into cloth traveled to different parts of the world, & many ideas on making textiles were exchanged among various peoples. Spinning is the simple process of drawing out a twisting of a few fibers together into a continuous length, & winding them into a ball or onto a stick. There is archaeological evidence to suggest that spinning was practiced in Europe at least as early as 20,000 years ago. In the early days of spinning, the drawing out & twisting of the fibers was done by hand; later the winding stick itself was modified by the addition of a weight, or whorl, at its lower end (which gave increased momentum). Thus a modified winding stick became the spinning implement, or hand spindle.

SUMMER Spin -Time to Head Outdoors to Spin & Tend the Chickens!

Woman carrying a distaff under her arm while feeding chickens. Luttrell Psalter, British Library, London 1300s England


Eons ago just as today, a textile was a fibrous substance, such as wool, cotton, flax, or silk, that can be spun into yarn & woven or knitted into cloth.  Stone Age peoples wove nets, baskets, mats, & belts out of reeds, grasses, & strips of animal hides - and eventually led to the creation of fabrics to substitute for the animal skins which often served as human clothing. Ancient textiles were made mostly of linen, cotton, wool, & silk. Spinning & weaving were mentioned in the Bible. 



From Exodus 35:25 Every skilled woman spun with her hands & brought ...... All the women who were skilled in sewing & spinning prepared blue, purple, & scarlet thread, & fine linen cloth... 

From Proverbs 31:19 In her hand she holds the distaff...Her hands are busy spinning thread, her fingers twisting fiber. ... She extends her hands to the spinning staff, & her hands hold the spindle...

As civilizations developed, the people, the fibers, & the different methods tools invented for turning the fibers into cloth traveled to different parts of the world, & many ideas on making textiles were exchanged among various peoples. Spinning is the simple process of drawing out a twisting of a few fibers together into a continuous length, & winding them into a ball or onto a stick. There is archaeological evidence to suggest that spinning was practiced in Europe at least as early as 20,000 years ago. In the early days of spinning, the drawing out & twisting of the fibers was done by hand; later the winding stick itself was modified by the addition of a weight, or whorl, at its lower end (which gave increased momentum). Thus a modified winding stick became the spinning implement, or hand spindle.

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Sewing outdoors - 19C Girls



 Janet C Fisher (Welch artist, 1867–1926), In the orchard, c.1900.



Mary E Dear (English artist, 1848-1867) Patchwork 1857



John Thomas Peele (English-born American genre artist, 1822–1897)  The Knitting Lesson



John Dawson Watson (British artist, 1832-1892)



William Frederick Witherington (British artist, 1785-1865) The Sewing Lesson



Charles Edward Wilson (British 1854-1941) Girl Sewing


Albert Edelfelt (Finnish artist, 1854-1905) A Girl Knitting Socks 1896


Monday, May 11, 2015

Interiors - Jean Edouard Vuillard 1868-1940 Staying Indoors

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Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Lucy Hessel Reading 1924

Jean-Édouard Vuillard, the son of a retired captain, spent his youth at Cuiseaux (Saône-et- Loire); in 1878, his family moved to Paris in modest circumstances. After his father's death in 1884, Vuillard received a scholarship to the Lycée Condorcet where Vuillard met Ker Xavier Roussel (an aspiring painter & Vuillard's future brother in law) & artist Maurice Denis.  In 1885, Vuillard left the Lycée Condorcet. On the advice of his closest friend, Roussel, he refused a military career & joined Roussel at the studio of painter Diogène Maillart.  There, Roussel & Vuillard received the rudiments of artistic training. In 1887, after 3 unsuccessful attempts, Vuillard passed the entrance examination for the École des Beaux-Arts.  I begin this survey with a later, atypical painting here, but I will try to follow his evolution as a painter chronologically from this point on.


1888 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Madame Vuillard



1890 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Grandmother Michaud Seen against the Light



1890 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Marie Vuillard



1891 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940)  The Flowered Dress



1891  Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The Conversation



 1891 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) L'elegante



 1891 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman at her Toilette



1891 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman in Black


Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) The Green Interior 1891



1892 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) My Grandmother



1892 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman Brushing a Garment



1892 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940)  Breakfast



Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Under the Lamp or Two Women Under the Lamp Sous la lampe ou Deux Femmes sous la lampe. 1892.



1893 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Cup of Coffee



1893 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Madame Vuillard Seated



1893 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Seated Woman Dressed in Black



Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Young Woman in a Room Jeune femme dans une chambre. c 1892-93.


Edouard Vuillard, Interieur a la Table à Ouvrage, 1893



Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) At Table 1893


Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) The Linen Cupboard c 1893-95



1893  Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Old Woman in an Interior



1893 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The Yellow Curtain



1893 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Two Women Drinking Coffee



 1894  Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Breakfast



1894 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940)  Linen Closet



 1894 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The Little Restaurant



1894  Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman Sitting by the Fireside



1895-1900 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Madame Bonnard



1895 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Old Woman in front of the Fireplace


1895 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Madame Vuillard Cousant


1895 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) My Mother


1895 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Breakfast at Madame Vuillard's


1895 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman with a Cup of Coffee



 1899 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The Woman



1899 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) In Front of a Tapestry



1899 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The First Class Compartment



Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Interior 1900-05



1900 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Annette Roussel with a Broken Chair



1900 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) After the Meal



1901  Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Wife and Child



1901 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman with a Hat



Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Luncheon 1901



Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Joseph and Lucie Hessel in Small Salon, Rue de Rivoli 1900-05



1902 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940)  Interieur



1901 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The Table Setting



Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940)) Le Salon de Madame Aron, from 1904



1905  Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Sewing



1908 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman in Profile


1910 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman with Black Eyebrows


1910 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman with a Hat


Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Madame Vuillard in the Dining Room 1919-25


Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Mille Nathanson in the Artist's Studio 1912


Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Mother and Child 1900


Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Madame Arthur Fontaine


Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Portrait of Claude Bernheirm de Villers 1906


Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Woman Reading 1910


Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Madame Hessel on the Sofa, 1900



1912  Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) A Child wearing Blue Overalls



1927  Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940)  actress Jane Redouart



1932  Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Countess Jean de Polignac



1889 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Self Portrait