French Handkerchiefs mid 1800's

 

A selection of embroidered French linen handkerchiefs from the early-mid 1800's, just for the stupendous skill and beauty.

Claudine Aspar I

 

Claudine Aspar 's Exhibition  featuring her mixed media apparition dresses. 

"The Apparitions Dresses

What is hidden behind the tales-myths - Miraculous Apparitions - is there an invisible world that is part of our lives? - The Apparitions dresses tell stories: Apparition of the virgin, apparition of fairies, goddesses, miracles, flowers in the snow, an image that is imprinted, the clothes become relics...

Under the maternity hide goddesses, Artemis of Ephesus, Cybele, the Matrona... The stories intertwine.

Dresses spread out, suspended between heaven and earth.

Rivers, sources contain many secrets, forgotten pagan cults, we can sometimes place wishes there which over the course of the water can take shape, the trees whisper in our ears messages that we no longer hear. Some encounters take place in dreams and are embodied in creation.

We must learn to re-enchant daily life, revisit our dreams, the legends. The apparition dresses float between heaven and earth and create a link between body and mind, they call us to another place, a window onto another time, another space, an opening onto lost knowledge." Claudine Aspar

 

Alyssa Jos

 

Alyssa Jos is a Parisian artist whose medium is leaves, she soaks them is a plant based solution dries them and then weaves and sews them into textiles, for interiors and clothing items.

Séverine Gallardo III

Séverine Gallardo has been creating crowns of felt and embroidery, headdresses to arrest the eyes and inspire the heart, modelled by Halbo Kool.

 

Karine N'guyen Van Tham I

Karine N'guyen Van Tham is a French textile artist who uses nature to create her garments. In particular for a number of years hse has been incorporating the scales of pine cones, making an irresistible surface texture, like a natural armour.

These images are from a series called 'The Clan' consisting of several breast plates formed from comes. Karine imagines herself as an explorer or an archaeologist and creates elements that reveal and highlight details of clothing, a “second skin”.

 

Cyril Maisonnave

 

Cyril Maisonnave knits cutlery, and it is beautiful, surreal and amazing.

"Between my reflection on knitting and my interest in the forgotten poetry of familiar objects, I therefore naturally associated knitting and cutlery in a process of re-reading daily practices. My cutlery, through their treatments, tell us about their scrapping, their erasure. Their metamorphoses, their assimilations into the natural environment from which their materials come, lead us to a poetic reflection on ourselves ... The object certainly loses its usefulness, but it becomes a catalyst, a revealer of our attitude towards the world." Cyril Maisonnave

As he developes this theme Cyril has recently been dipping his knitted tableware into porcelain. 

Séverine Gallardo I

 

Séverine Gallardo's wonderful felted, embroidered and knitted headwear. Séverine graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Marseille in 2000 and fought to major using textiles and medium she had used since a child with her grandmothers.

Angélique-Marguerite du Coudray

The incredible, beautiful, creative, sculptural, stitched learning aids created by Angélique-Marguerite du Coudray (1712-1789) to teach midwifery to rural French women in the 18th Century. Angélique-Marguerite was born into a prominent medical family and by 25 had completed her medical training and exams, just before the authorities to banned instruction of female midwives. In 1759 she was commissioned by the king to instruct midwifery to peasant women in an attempt to reduce infant mortality.  For the next 24 years, she traveled throughout France sharing her extensive knowledge.

To help her teach rural midwives, Angélique-Marguerite created various stitched models and a full-size obstetric model, which she called "the machine". It was a model of a woman's lower body, made of fabric, leather and stuffing. Thank you