A truly Renaissance woman, Myrle Borine has embraced creativity her entire life. From jewelry and print making to working with stained glass, beads, ceramic and polymer clays, Myrle's artistic expressions are never banal.
This blog is dedicated to Bead Mad Myrle and the simple Delica bead...
BEADED QUILT
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After a year and 200,000 delica beads later
I finished a 3' wide by 4' long beaded quilt.
I was inspired after seeing a quilt show at the Michener Museum.
The second picture shows a close-up detail of the quilt.
The Japanese kimono is one of the world's instantly recognizable traditional garments. The word kimono literally means "clothing" and up until the mid 19th century it was the form of dress worn by everyone in Japan. Myrle's large kimonos are about 22"wide x 30" high while her smaller ones are 8"wide x 10" high. When she was just beginning to bead, Myrle visited a museum and saw a piece of material from an old tomb displayed between two pieces of glass. It set her to thinking... what a good way to show both sides of a flat piece! So she immediately proceeded to display her small one-sided kimonos between two pieces of Plexiglas. This means of display wasn't well suited to many exhibitions so Myrle went to free-standing, clear Lucite stands. With her new kimono stands, she was able to actually make more realistic beaded kimonos with both fronts and back...
Just like every other beader who becomes infatuated with beads to wear, Myrle fashioned her initial beaded collars the same way as her contemporaries... But why not "frame" the neck with a more traditional shape, accenting the roundness of the face which rises above - right on Myrle!
This Peyote stitch pattern on metal frame vessel was chosen by juror Bruce W. Pepich Executive Director of the Racine Art Museum for the Wayne Art Center 2009 Craft Forms Exhibition. The form measures 15" high x 11"wide x 11" deep One day Myrle saw a form similar to this and decided she wanted to bead something with that same shape. So she drew up what she wanted and a friend of hers welded it together for her... Then she went to town! All pattern artists have one thing in common – they all use patterns in their art. The medium or technique is not important as long as someone employs a combination of elements or shapes repeated in a recurring and regular arrangement. When it comes to art, patterns have been used from ancient times. They exist in nature; the repeating units of shape and form can be identified in the world that surrounds us.
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