rubificticious
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OMG! That sounds fantastic! I don't know where to start! I haven't even heard of any of those techniques! So, it was a tree trunk? Like, a Textile Art? Sculpture? Sounds so fantastic!~kiki said:Actually, it didn't look as good as it sounds ... It was pretty simple. Your pages sound great! In answer to your question, the moths were all the same size. In fact, on the left hand pages they were all placed in the same position and on the right they were in a random position, so it looked like it had sort of flown onto the other page .
I didn't post what I made, but basically I made an abstract tree trunk (sounds really bad) The backing was created using 3 variations of grey merino wool rops mixed with silk fibres and I molded the bottom to form rustic tassles. I then added strips of different organza in silvers and greys which I attached using wavering lines of machine embroidery. There was also a nuno-felted tree-knot that ran the entire length of the piece and a series of little knots created in silk paper. I added lines of glass beading and silk ribbon embroidery and finished it off with chunky felted tabs and a white moth which looks like the one in the picture. I created it using a technique called bagging and made a little body out of faux fur. The backing was hand sewn on so the raw edges of the felt were left exposed, and the fabric layers were left to frey/ hang down over the edge of the felt. Overall the shape was pretty streamlined. It wasn't supposed to look realistic, the focus was more on the texture of the bark etc.
Well-- our teacher told us it was better to use our inspiration page as a title page, but I guess if your teacher said it was ok, then thats fine
Mmm... I hope it will be fine to do the title page. I know that when I was looking through folios, i liked the ones with the TP more because it looked like a heading, sort of introducing the work, and the ones without them felt incomplete.