Looking for something
festive to write about I decided to show you images of some free bobbin lace I made a while
ago based on angels’ wings. The original piece was an installation of ten of
these fragments of lace, each mounted on a separate piece of iridescent sheer
fabric. They were joined together by ties of the same fabric and hung so that
there were four along the top row then three, two and one in the subsequent
rows forming an upside-down right-angle triangle to approximate the shape of an
angel’s wing.
I was pleased
with the installation but then decided to use the separate elements to make
panels that could be hung individually. I therefore removed them from their
fabric backing and remounted them on crinkled blue tissue paper to suggest
movement and added some torn scraps of silk paper to reference wings and framed
them as individual pieces. They can now be used as Christmas decorations and I’m
delighted to have made two different types of work from the same pieces of lace.
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