Isi
For the theme of Palimpsest, I made a book around language and discourse. Language of the past that still applies to today’s discourse, a repetition of words with the power of destruction, of creation and the threads that link our history – past, present, and future to humans in search of identity.
Joan
This book is an adaptation of a Hedi Kyle structure and reflects a series of layers and meanings from my work on the Yorkshire textile industry, with handwritten text from order books in a local mill.
Patti
I didn’t have time to make new work for this month’s theme; instead I found a textile piece I made when “collecting colour” with artist Alice Fox. The vintage linen has been stained with natural dyes and then stitched. It’s wonderfully tactile.
Tamsin
This book is part of an ongoing project on JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations. I started by considering how musicians will often write all over a score while they practise and how I nearly always sit down to play the piano with a pencil to hand. I printed some pages from the score onto cartridge paper, which both lent itself to being written on, but also having areas of the score scraped away. I slotted the pages into a version of Heidi Kyle’s crown book.
