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OT Designing embroidering private symbols
I am not sure How many of you make/use / fill [ at least some of your
work]with Symbols ,,, many probaly use `accepted` , traditional symbols [ national flags, tree of life , crosses etc,,,, ] this is very interesting in itself. I use the traditional ones , but at times find i need to make my own symbols. [ or pictograms]. and other times i use a kind of Overall design that combines several elements in my work , thus it is an Echo of the symbol i want to show , the assocaiation i want to awake, in the looker`s mind . mirjam |
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Hi, Mirjam: I occasionally use known symbols but frequently use things
that resonate with me that aren't universally recognizable. In the quilt I made upon my mother's death, I uses four rivers of blue fabric for her four children. Three have "life-lines" through them (the fourth is for my brother who died after only a few days). And I used four yellow circles as suns, with stitched rays, that move in and out of the rivers for the grandkids. No one else seeing it would recognize the meaning but it is very meaningful to me (and my family once I explained). I like the idea of repeating and varying symbols like you mention, and especially the concept of echoing... Marjorie Mirjam Bruck-Cohen wrote: I am not sure How many of you make/use / fill [ at least some of your work]with Symbols ,,, many probaly use `accepted` , traditional symbols [ national flags, tree of life , crosses etc,,,, ] this is very interesting in itself. I use the traditional ones , but at times find i need to make my own symbols. [ or pictograms]. and other times i use a kind of Overall design that combines several elements in my work , thus it is an Echo of the symbol i want to show , the assocaiation i want to awake, in the looker`s mind . mirjam |
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Thank you Marjorie.
I love the idea of Rivers as symbolizing the children , I am sorry you lost a brother so young. and respect very much your ability to include him in the quilt. Rivers as chidren of your mother , show your mother [to me] as EVE the mother of All life as written in the Torah ... What a beautiful symbol, And this just what i meant about the general outlook being a Great Symbol .. May you enjoy your work many years. mirjam |
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No one else seeing it would recognize the
meaning but it is very meaningful to me (and my family once I explained). That's the part that makes needlwork "special". We put our hearts and souls into the pieces - and why can't we make it something tactile that we can go back to see. The first piece I ever did "just for myself" was a sampler after my father died. It's nothing too special - nothing earth shattering - but every time I look at it I think of him and smile! After 9-11 I decided to start a Dear Jane, and as I worked on the pieces, I'd note on the back what was occurring in the world when i worked on each piece. Somehow I'm going to date those on the quilt (once it gets finished - years from now - tee-hee), so that I can look back. Even now it's interesting to look back at those and see the good and the bad that was going on. I never thought about adding in symbolism of my own into my works, but you may have just inspired me!!! Sally Rudkin Stitchin'Spiration - a hobby gone wild ... or a dream come true!!!! http://stores.ebay.com/Stitchinspiration |
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