Day 3698: Embroidery and Catherine.

 

"Bless the children": old photo, digital collage

 

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 Pauline Nijenhuis: From conception to creation

Thanks to Rad Nana, in Colorado for sending me this interesting article. Artist, Pauline Nijenhuis, has an inquiring mind. Following the success of her first HAND@WORK project, Pauline has developed her second in the series to ask: what differences do we see in the ‘handwriting’ work of five embroidery artists? And how will the public evaluate the work made by hand in relation to the same work embroidered by a machine? Moreover, do people, in this era of growing digitization and robotization, still appreciate handiwork? We asked Pauline about her process, from concept to creation, for her HAND@WORK embroidery project and we find out what she and four other embroiderers 

Marjolien Burbank, Tessa VanHelden, Mique Henheer, Hinke Schreuders, Pauline Nijenhuis

 

discovered about themselves, and their work, along the way. What struck me during the project is that an object made by mankind shows ‘handwriting’ – in this case in embroidery.

The new HAND@WORK project focuses on the question: what makes something ‘handwriting’ and what does that add to a work of art? And what does the crafter derive from making something by hand? This will be my new battle with the machine!

Frank de Wind, TextielLab Tilburg (Textiel Museum)

 

Pauline Nijenhuis: The embroidery machine at TextielLab

Embroidery supplies

 The participating artists, including myself, used a needle, DMC yarn, scissors, embroidery ring, logbook and a photographic camera. The embroidery machine used at TextileLab was an SWF model and used a yarn made of Gunold embroidery thread, which is polyester and viscose rayon.

Frank de Wind, Textiellab Tilburg

The machine makes 550 stitches per minute. and a total of 22,875 3 cm stitches were required. Embroidering one piece of this work took 40 minutes. On the other hand, the hand embroiderers took an average of about 13 hours. 

Tessa van Helden

Hinke Schreuders

Mique Menheere

Pauline Nijenhuis

The HAND@WORK project is wrapped up in a multidisciplinary installation: the five embroidery works by the participating artists, six machine embroidered works, a film documentary (12 minutes), a large object called ‘Under Construction’ (see photos) and a digital survey among visitors. I want to find out from this project the visitors’ opinions about manufacturing by hand or machine – in this case about embroidery. So part of the exhibition included a digital survey questioning them about this. I also asked visitors about their appreciation of handicrafts.

Once the results are analysed, I will write a book with Caroline about this project and our conclusions.

Hand@work installation

I did my best to edit, but the original article, here, is a much better read.

For more information visit www.paulinenijenhuis.com 

 

Another digital collage from an old photo.

step 1

It's an old photo that I found at a flea market some time ago. I am using her because I think she could be a Ukrainian child?

 

To the original, I will add three additional layers:

step 2

step 3

step 4

step 5  (Catherine)

 

 

 

A great 1+minute video, Dad & son, here.

 

Just because ...

Blue-winged Kookabuua

 

 

 

Smiles for Tuesday ...

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

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