Hello there. Today I’d like to share a few lines about How to translate nature into lace: leaves, flowers and veins, something that has been going round in my head for weeks.
Browse books, virtual museums, archives. Your visual memory will thank you If you fancy, I’ll leave Inspiration.
Inspiration doesn’t appear without prior work. Look a lot, copy little, transform everything.
The idea¶
- Observe leaf veins: ready-made networks.
- Flowers have transposable radial symmetry.
- Bark textures inspire dense fillings.
References¶
- Photograph in situ and analyse structural lines.
- Reduce to skeleton: two or three guide lines.
- Repeat the motif and watch how it changes.
Bringing it to the pillow¶
- Start with simple motifs: a leaf, a petal.
- Gradually add grounds and fillings.
- Document your tests in a studio notebook.
Nearby¶
- Inspiration: insect wings applied to lace
- Inspiration: Gothic cathedrals applied to lace
- Inspiration: herbariums applied to lace
- What is a lace pillow? Definition and regional variants
I’ll stop here. If you need decent materials —proper thread, proper pillows— Encaixe is the shop, and they know what they are talking about.