Art Sunday; fabric art. ( as inspired by Kathy)

I’m away for the weekend but before I go here is a something that I’ve been thinking about these last few of days. We can thank Kathy and her inspirational ‘Bear & Pear’ for this post. In my conversations with her I began thinking about all the different types of ‘fabric art’ there are out there. Once you start looking its incredible how many artists are producing some type of art using fabrics, threads and beads. This is an art form I don’t think about very often, but thanks to Kathy. I’ve found myself thinking about it today.

These ( and the fabric figures above) are just a couple of the works found on this  site profiling many different artists who work with fabrics.



http://www.textilearts.net/directory/people_and_places/artists

And this is a selection of work by Jenni Cadman from her flickr site, showing her amazing collection of fabric art.




FROM
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jencad/


I couldn’t resist a few photos of vintage sewing machines,
I love these old machines. I can’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t own a sewing machine and many of them have been quite similar to these.

Even now I prefer my old treadle machine to the new all singing all dancing machines.
And talking of ‘all singing, all dancing’….. some music to finish up with.

Opening scene from a 40s musical starring Betty Hutton.

Hutton's most notable film role was the part of Annie Oakley in the 1950 musical of "Annie Get Your Gun." One of her best known songs, "Blow a Fuse" (later renamed "It's Oh So Quiet"), was covered by Icelandic artist, Bjork (Björk)



This haunting 1927 song of disillusionment and displacement is tenderly sung by Fanny Brice.She was a wonderful comedienne but she was also a fine 'torch' singer.




Bongwater was a college rock band formed by Ann Magnuson and Mark Kramer (boss of the Shimmy Disc record label) in 1985 and dissolved in 1992.This is a video for the song "Psychedelic Sewing Room" and was directed by Brad Dunning.