This caused a few raised eyebrows when it was submitted as my metre piece for City & Guilds. It is called 'The Thread of Life' and it is silk paper created using Jo Sonja's textile medium as the binding agent. The lettering was free machined using Madeira metallic thread. I printed the lettering onto water soluble paper using the computer and then laid strips of it over the top of the silk paper.
My first efforts failed as I used PVA glue as the binder and the whole thing went into a horrible wet mess when I dissolved the paper!!
The poem is the same as the one that is printed in the book below and the theme of which is all about having lived a good and long life and not being afraid to die and leave others to follow on from where you left off.
Hazel, you have some lovely ideas!
ReplyDeleteThats a great idea and llvely to use an old spool too.
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