Another excellent use of embroidery in the modern age.
Photos from our FANTASTIC Penguin Threads event at Purl last night. Thanks to all who came to celebrate with Penguin, Purl, and (artist/creative visionary/very cool person) Jillian Tamaki.
For those of you still looking to get your design event fill, we have an upcoming event that’s sure to get your crafty pulses quickening. Coralie Bickford-Smith, cover artist extraordinaire behind the much-tumblr-loved Penguin Hardcover Classics (along with the more recently released Great Foods, & Hardcover Fitzgeralds), will be in conversation with Grace Bonney, blogger extraordinaire behind the ever-inspiring blog Design*Sponge and gorgeous book Design Sponge at Home. They will be at Book Court in Cobble Hill on December 2. We hope to see you there!
Not to go on and on about Jillian Tamaki (although she deserves it, doesn’t she?), but when she’s not doing mind-bogglingly stunning work for our Penguin Threads series, she’s also a traditional-media artist.
Halloween is a huge deal in our office, although I doubt any of these are technically appropriate. Lower that sexy Virginia Woolf hemline a few inches though and I’m in!
(image via the Hairpin)
“A fine example of English amateur embroidery of the late 1600s, this work bag bears the initials of the young needleworker who made it, who also added the date 1669, and her age, ten. The bag, which would have been used to store embroidery implements and supplies, is decorated on both front and back with red wool thread, primarily in a double running stitch, on a linen foundation.”
Though “young needleworkers” are few and far between in this century, Jillian Tamaki has created something pretty amazing with our Penguin Threads.
(via The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
