Embroidered Collage

I had originally gone to the library to wait for the Art Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design to open.  It's a great little museum with nice examples of a variety of types of art.  I enjoyed an exhibit on the use of webs and loops and such traditionally associated with textiles translated into a variety of other media in contemporary art.  The section on decorative art was nice as well, and it was good to be able to spend my time instead of being on a tour like at Winterthur.  I sketched some of the chair backs from the late eighteenth century.  I put one in Kirsten's journal, which you can see in the updated blog.

I spent most of my time in a room with embroideries from along the silk road.  I sketched patterns from each of the pieces on display and I posted an example page below.  One half, mostly geometric in nature on a counted ground, were from the Caucasus, and the other half, primarily florals in chain stitch, were from Uzbekistan.  I'd like to translate these pattern sets into more complex collages of similar style to my spiral pieces.  I took color notes, but had to just use a pencil in the museum.  I had a good time at the museum and was very glad I went.