Articulation Textile Group

One never knows when a flash of inspiration for a work will strike. Often an article stimulates a childhood memory and links to later life experiences. Are you old enough to remember when general stores wrapped their customers' purchases in brown paper torn off a large roll..... ...and tied it with string. In the home, both brown paper and string were kept, along with the purchase because both had many further uses. Recycling is not a new concept, but maybe it could be expressed as an idea in a work using brown paper to reference another time of recycling? Hand-cranked sock making machine Textile related artifacts in museums often attract the eye of a fibre artist. Textile history is as long as human history so the fibre artist has a treasure trove of knowledge and techniques to pull from. Spinning Niddy Noddy for making yarn into skeins ready to dye. Every culture fashioned tools and equipment to work with fibre and cloth. Often these tools are '...