{"id":10672,"date":"2026-09-04T15:22:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=10672"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:22:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:22:37","slug":"browsing-with-pinterest-textures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=10672","title":{"rendered":"Browsing With Pinterest – Textures!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In every medium are many artists who select some grid layout for their design. I learned about about traditional geometric patchwork and quilting as a cultural project while temporarily based in the USA 1987-94, and instantly loved how identical elements are repeated in horizontal\/vertical grids, or composed diagonally (“on point”) in that traditional textile artform. However, I only ever made one traditional design (Flying Geese) quilt, because my creative embroidery background took over. By 1989 I was adding mixed media to traditional quiltmaking techniques to produce original quilted wall art in the then fairly new art quilt<\/em> medium, and in the early 90s adopted improvisational construction techniques. While my choices in preferred techniques and materials have changed greatly since then, my love of grids has endured, and most of my art quilt portfolio is still based on some kind of grid layout.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Detail, Out of Order #9, 2026. Note the distorted grid layout.<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The pin boards on my own Pinterest site<\/strong><\/a> are mostly textile and fibre art related topics. The titles of my pin collections include contemporary hand stitch, textures, grids, sheers, stitch on paint, holes, edge treatments and more you can check here<\/a>. Sometimes I save an image to more than one board if they overlap, as do the contemporary hand stitch<\/strong><\/a> and textures collections<\/a>,<\/strong> because to a stitcher these are so related. Pinterest is really a vast catalogue, personalised because it knows my particular interests, and while I browse there at least once a week, it’s often without finding anything especially interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But on Pinterest this morning my attention was really<\/em> taken by this image of the bodice area of a mixed media dress<\/a> by USA artist Marylin Stevens<\/a> (who gave permission to use it here) <\/p>\n\n\n

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Detail, mixed media dress, by Marylin Stevens<\/em><\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

If you check carefully and look at the full image<\/a>, it’s only the front part of a dress, not a complete dress that someone could pull over their head to cover their body, but my interest isn’t how she stitched or wove it, because I can think of several different ways I could get something like<\/em> this texture in a pattern a bit reminiscent of the Greek key or meandering pattern, also used by the Romans. My interest is the textural pattern itself, achieved using whatever process she did… and it will be on my mind for a while!<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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