Textile Biennale in Rjswijk

Today I was with my UK friend Jane on tour again.

Like we did to Leiden some weeks ago, 

we went by public transportation

(for me bike, boat, bike, train, bus)

The museum in Rijswijk 

(though it's not a specific textile museum like the one in Tilburg)

"does in textile" a lot : f.i. the retrospective exhibition of Leslie Gabrielse

was there some eight years ago,

and I think this is the fourth Textile Biennale that they're organizing.

I already read about it in my favourite textile magazine TextielPlus

(... sorry .... only in Dutch !) 

One of the rooms.

Chiachio & Giannone (ARG)

(flowers ?)

Mai Tabakian (FR)

Caroline Bartlett (UK)

A beautiful installation with delicate embroidery 

with embedded imprints of textile in porcelain

Raija Jokinen (FI)

Rebacca Ringquist (USA)

(detail ... pojagi-like)

Debra M Smith (USA)

(the front of the flyer)

Monica Bohlmann (DE)

Ane Henriksen (DK)

(a translucent room)

Amanda McCavour (CA)

(combination of paint and stitch)

Pauline Nijenhuis (NL)

(weird animals)

Henrique v an Putten (NL)

(thousands of pins (numdered !) ... and thread)

Katie Lewis (USA)

(a weird installation : all the original furniture of this room

embedded in folded cloths !)

Derick Melander (USA)

(very, very fine crochet and embroidery)

Ying Chew (AUS)

Not all of it, 

but things I liked

Oh my, there are so many different way to make textile ART !

.....

If you have the opportunity :

GO  VISIT  THIS  EXHIBITION

it's more than worth the trip !

It lasts till September 27

(Thanks again for the lovely day Jane !)

tiny felts

When I saw daughter's little leather amulet bag

it was an inspiration for some tiny felts.

Three tiny bags with the flap folded over.

When they're completely dry, there will be a thin cord

through the top of the bag

(and around the neck)

My assistant today was very helpful

when I started the next one.

He even insisted to help me rolling !!!

Seeing that it was getting smaller and smaller

he thought it was a fun hat

... though better suited for his monkey

HA !

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Daughter has been knitting some "earthmothers"

They posed for the picture on the garden stairs.

(the dark green one also of home spun wool)

The lovely rainbow-mother close up.

6 - 6 - 15 ... painting again

But

before I started again on my small paintings

I had to work on the felting - exchange :

namely a composition of all the pieces

that were send to me during the whole year.

I hadn't succeeded doing so with the exchange

of the previous year, with my "sunny" theme.

This time it was a bit easier

because I asked for 

"a red piece that could be hung" 

I fixed two stumps of old Buddleja wood together

and hung the pieces on the branches.

(if you want to see all the different pieces up close :

just click on the label felting-exchange in the sidebar)

With that task literally out of the way

(and in the mail)

I could go back to my paintings.

There are still two really small one that are 

in their first stage, and I'm still thinking how to continue.

So I took another old canvas

and started hiding what I painted some years ago under a new layer of paint,

and I just love to do an underpainting of red(s). 

Then another layer and rub till some of the red is back.

And once more : stenciling and printing

(the first layers of it, that is !)

Because I wanted to make a big bird,

I made a template of one out of heavy drawing paper.

An impression of the template in place, and after it was removed,

and here it is !

(50  x 40 cm)

(19.7"  x 15.7")

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During the very warm last few days

the water lily showed her first flower of the year

in a beautiful pink (but too much sun for the picture)

the Meconopsis Cambrica (that I got from Gabi)

Nigella Damascena

and Iris Sibirica "purple haze"

Sitting in the garden with all these beauties around you 

is a sheer delight 

;-)