I quite like some of their pieces (www.magnoliapearl.com). I found one
of them in an eBay search for vintage clothes and looked up their
website. Thing is, I like using vintage linens to make new clothes. I
find that small pieces like circular doilies are very hard to use--too
big for an applique, too small to make into garments. A lot of work went
into crocheting them but whatever I do, it still looks like a doily,
unless I can make a large lace doily work as a lace cover on top of a
parasol or hat. Actually, though, a lot of what this textile artist
appears to be using is random pieces/ends of coarse crochet and lace.
Their trick seems to be to give up the idea of flatness and just hang
stuff. A bit extreme in places, but I find some of it charming--early
Renn- and Dickens-Faireish. The sensibility of the clothes Jessica
Overstreet made before she died, and Patty Farber/Petrushka made before
she became a couturier to the stars and correspondingly expensive.
You're back East, but some of the SF Bay Area people will know the look
I am referring to.
Fran
Lavolta Press
www.lavoltapress.com
On 5/22/2010 5:51 AM, R Lloyd Mitchell wrote:
WOW! Doilies indeed...how ever did you find 'this'?
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