Canopies and Aprons

The doilies have finally found a home... even tho the moss versions didn't work out so well, there is life in the ol' handicrafts yet... they're coming with me to Peats Ridge Festival to be made into a work called 'Canopy'... "a shady place dripping with time spent, and time past. Canopy is assembled from hundreds of handicrafts, collected over the last 50 years - a complex and tessellated pattern of shadows and stitches, from the hands of your forebears to you..."


And, not to be left out, my vast and much-loved collection (well, some of them - the skirt-only ones) of Aprons will also be making an appearance at the festival as 'Pinny Prayer Flags'... "strings of Prayer Flags made from vintage aprons, collected from across Australia. Over one hundred much-loved specimens, ranging from the exquisite to the downright worrying. A catalog of many, many kitchens, finally free in the breeze of Glenworth Valley..."

So, a small foray into un-adulterated nana technology - no lights, no buttons, no silicon chips, no power-plugs. Just an accumulation of small craft projects - in the case of the doilies; scraps of time as spent by hundreds of women over god knows how long...

In the case of the aprons; multiple, multiple sewing-class projects as completed by disgruntled 13-year olds over the last 50 years... ah the romance...

I wonder if they would all approve...