The Hands of Fate Mo 16
are finished!
vintage chamois leather evening gloves embroidered with silk threads, embellished with grape & passionfruit vine tendrils, Acacia sp (aka florist’s Zig Zag), boar bristles, emu & rainbow lorikeet feathers, eucalyptus seed capsule, Cecile Brunner rosebud, a fragment of butterfly wing, boar’s tooth that I wore as an earring for 20 years, the copper blue wing bone of a fruit bat electrocuted in the power lines 11 years ago, the last of the Italian murrini star beads, a good clear single point crystal with a beaded lace hilt, turquoise, moss agate, glass & clay beads, the cold fish I carved from a paua shell with a bandaged heart from back in 2008, quail wishbone and the shaft of an eagle’s flight feather fretworked by mortuary beetles back in 2013, display box made from craftboard collaged with The Gardener’s Catalogue (1974), embroidered & painted rotted lace ribbon with laser cut stars from Els of FiberRainbow
you can see photos of these gloves in process widdershins here
The Hands of Fate
Posted: February 14, 2016 by Mo Crow in It's Crow Time, magicTags: hands of fate, talismans
Comments
A beautiful tribute to your hands…..the whole piece looks wonderful Mo. From the making of the box, the use of the old gardening mag. the embroidering and those gloves…WOW!
(((Eliene))) it’s a thank you letter to my hands!
Wow Mo they are wonderful. That ribbon title works beautifully.
thanks Leonie, it worked!
The spirit, the heart, the depth and the detail all combine in a wondrous alchemy! I really enjoyed looking back through posts about this developing – a real triumph Mo!
(((Susi))) they grew!
Wonderful piece
thanks Debbie
love these. the box is wonderful too. it’s been nice to be able to see them grow
thanks for visiting Sue
truly brilliant, Mo…
thanks Grace, getting the lettering to work on the rotted silk of the ribbon took a bit of doing but it got there in the end!
Everything has found their rightful home there in your hands Mo.
this one took quite some time but got there in the end!
Magnificent, Mo!
(((Carol)))
They are lovely. I have a pair of gloves that my mother was making and never finished – I should look at them withe new eyes and maybe finish them in a more creative fashion
Hi Gillian, go for it, the construction of gloves is fascinating!
Healing and creating hands. Beautyful magical.
(((Tilly)))
gorgeous, how is it to stitch on the leather?
these old gloves (circa 1950’s) are chamois so the leather is soft as butter to stitch through but very fragile and needed to be stitched with silk thread (linen was too harsh & ripped the surface) the very thin Italian glove leather I use in the crow eye talismans is delightfully strong & stretchy and copes with linen thread just fine
So stunning. I love how the leather and natural bits relate to the densely printed background that you collaged. And, as usual, the language of craft — your supply list — reads like poetry. Can the box hang vertically?
I will be displaying the box and gloves flat on a plinth as I want to encourage people to handle them & even try them on. well this is my thoughts so far Madeleine who owns Artsite Gallery will be hanging the show & may well want them on the wall, if that is the case I will have to figure out how to tie them in place!
They look so fragile for all that handling!
they are but I want people to be able to see the reverse … I will have to supervise the handling