Minimalistic Muslin Cards from SewDanish

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Recently Fibrefusion Contemporary Textile Art Group, thetextile group that I belong to, published their 5th book, Muslin, a Stitched Exploration of Loose Weave Fabrics  . While exploring the potential of muslin, I worked quite a few samples that I absolutely love andthat I’m planning on exploring and taking a lot further.


I have for a (long) while been fascinated by workingwhite on white. I have been focusing on and challenging myself to see howminimalistic I can go before there is ‘nothing’. In a busy life where I’mconstantly swapping in and out of ‘my’ three cultures the Danish, English andAmerican, working rather minimalistic gives me a bit of breathing space (ifthat makes sense). J


Removing the color from a design puts emphasis on textureand shading and something very exciting starts to happen. Don’t get me wrong Ilove color, but currently in my work, I prefer to use it quite restrictive, as an accent tothe design.  The cards in this blogpost are made as a result of my Muslin, white onwhite exploration. The small collages are stitched with strips of muslin on totorn pieces of Khadi (cotton rag) paper. Due to the ‘relaxed’ technique all thecollages are slightly different and very organic.  All cards are avaiable from SewDanish - Scandinavian Textile Art