{"id":590,"date":"2009-09-28T13:16:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T18:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=590"},"modified":"2012-01-11T14:25:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T19:25:02","slug":"fascinating-rural-textile-exhibition-montevideo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating ‘Rural’ Textile Exhibition, Montevideo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Muestra de Colchas y Tapices de Retazos<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Twice last week I<\/span> visited an exhibition of pieced bed coverings made in several different rural areas of Uruguay\u00a0– some of the historic antique pieces which\u00a0Las Traperas, Uruguay’s group of patchwork quilters, have been researching over the past year or so.\u00a0 The exhibition fits right into the rural theme of this year’s Dia del Patrimonio, held over last weekend, in which many buildings and facilities not always open to the public\u00a0were open for the people of Uruguay to visit and appreciate.<\/p>\n

Well lit, and beautifully set out in the events centre at the Alliance Francaise, Bvd. Artigas 1229\u00a0 , it is open daily through friday october 2nd, \u00a0from 10am to 8pm.\"P9210314-1\"<\/p>\n

Made by a resident of Rocha in the 1950’s, Olga Pereira, this bold log cabin style was constructed from I would say, dressmaking offcuts, and the combination of black, lights and brights, and lots of bright red really blew me away.\u00a0 The red centres are of a large variety of different fabrics ranigning from heavy wool to light silk, but all bright red, and this glows.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s about 1.75m x 1.2m and has a wool binding in a couple of different browns.\u00a0 \"P9210313\"<\/p>\n

Next, a very interesting item – a beautifully knitted and fringed throw rug or summer bedspread, and, get this – knitted out of the string that sewed the sides and tops of sacks of sugar –\u00a0carefully pulled out,\u00a0 washed and wound and saved\u00a0– (over how many years? ) before being knitted up !\"P9210306\" From the 1940s.-<\/em><\/p>\n

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It was knitted in sections, as\u00a0join shows\u00a0 diagonally placed in the lower part of the picture.\u00a0 Clearly the knitter would have had an impossible taks to splice every end – there were so many of them – so she knotted the ends and left them exposed, making a lovely additional surface texture on one side.\u00a0 Presumably the top side, as this was the one turned out for us to see.\u00a0 Well, I guess it didn’t matter, which ever way the user wanted it would be right.<\/p>\n

I think it’s gorgeous.<\/p>\n

You can find further pictures of pieces in this show by going\u00a0to<\/p>\n

http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/Alison.Schwabe\/UruguayHistoricTextilesAndBedCovers2009Exhibition?feat=directlink<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Muestra de Colchas y Tapices de Retazos Twice last week I visited an exhibition of pieced bed coverings made in several different rural areas of Uruguay\u00a0– some of the historic antique pieces which\u00a0Las Traperas, Uruguay’s group of patchwork quilters, have been researching over the past year or so.\u00a0 The exhibition fits right into the rural […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-9w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}