Spring Challenge - Art Deco

Spring Challenge

Art Deco

The next challenge is to make a quilt influenced by Art Deco.

The term Art Deco refers to a style that spanned the boom of the roaring 1920s and the bust of the Depression-ridden 1930s. It affected all forms of design, from the fine and decorative arts to fashion, film, photography, transport and product design. The name Art Deco was taken from Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratives et Industrials Modernes held in Paris in 1925.

I have a book on Art Deco Textiles which mentions...

Techniques: Cubism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Futurism, Modernism, Pochoir

Artists: Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Derain, Dufy, Kokoschka, Kandinsky, Beckmann, Nolde, Boccioni, Severini, Balla, Paul Iribe, Seguy, Benedictus, George Barbier, Clarice Cliff

Some interesting information is available on the Victoria & Albert Museum website at V&A - Art Deco

There is a lot of inspiration to be found on the web, just google ‘art deco’ or any of the other key words I have mentioned and check out all the images. I have inserted a selection into this post.

 Cubism, Charles Braque

Textile designs by Eugene Seguy

Expressionism, Franz Marc

Fauvism, Andre Derain

Futurism Fortunato Depero

Pochoir

Clarice Cliff

Chrysler building New York

The Queen Mary

O Canada

Love….. it can go from one extreme to another; either it is totally mushy and commercial or something as simple as a love of the outdoors.  

Well, I wanted to do something completely different. Firstly, I haven’t done any hand stitching in this piece except when putting on the binding; and secondly, I’m getting over my fear of free motion quilting and have done the entire background in different motifs.

During the Olympics in February, I found that every time the Canadian flag was raised, I stood proudly in my living room belting out the Canadian anthem with a great sense of pride.  So, my interpretation of “Love” is for my country.  I may not like the politics, the politicians, the taxes or the weather, but I’m very thankful to be living in this country - O Canada!

  

O Canada - Detail 1

O Canada - Detail 2

Material:         Commercial cotton and batik fabric

Technique:      Free motion quilting, fused maple leafs, trapunto

Katie

Tea - this flavoured water that does us so good

Tea is a great part of my life, every single day. The tea does me good, it makes me stay calm, relax, it helps me find a moment's peace. So I just had to do something with tea. I love the elegant japanese sign for tea, and I also wanted to bring in one of my teacups. I used photo-transfer for the cup, and stenciled the sign with Markal oilstick. The text was done with my embroderymaschine. The I machine-quilted the background with simple straight lines, some angular spiky shapes at the bottom and finished with seed-stitch and french knots. Simple binding in red framed the piece.

 And some close-ups

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