Decorative Arts Class: Glove projects
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labricoleuseMy decorative arts class has just presented their first round of projects, gloves. They make a simple pair in order to get a hang for the weird shapes of glove patterns, then a complex pair which involves some sort of challenge--either a pattern manipulation, or a material like leather, etc. Here are some images of their results.
Left: simple knit gloves with contrast thumb and fourchettes
Right: pink leather scalloped-edge gloves, both by first year grad Erin Abbenante
These gloves by first year grad Katie Keener have boiled wool on the back and leather on the palm.
White and pink leather gloves by second year grad Colleen Dobson. Colleen made these based on a research image of a glove advertisement from the 1950s. You can see her strange pattern shapes at the top!
Third year grad Candy McClernan has made several pairs of gloves before, so for her project she decided to research how to update this 1930s pattern for a modern crochet artisan. Old patterns like this often cite obsolete brands/sizes of yarns, and have odd elements of their notation. (This one gives fairly clear instructions for right hand, and then just says to do it in reverse for the left!)
White leather embellished gloves at right by second year grad Denise Dietrich. At left you can see her samples for the scalloping, cutwork, and artwork. Denise drew the "etching" embellishment on the backs of these gloves, working from the research image of an antique pair seen below.
Research image of antique gloves from which Denise worked.
Left: simple knit gloves with contrast thumb and fourchettes
Right: pink leather scalloped-edge gloves, both by first year grad Erin Abbenante
These gloves by first year grad Katie Keener have boiled wool on the back and leather on the palm.
White and pink leather gloves by second year grad Colleen Dobson. Colleen made these based on a research image of a glove advertisement from the 1950s. You can see her strange pattern shapes at the top!
Third year grad Candy McClernan has made several pairs of gloves before, so for her project she decided to research how to update this 1930s pattern for a modern crochet artisan. Old patterns like this often cite obsolete brands/sizes of yarns, and have odd elements of their notation. (This one gives fairly clear instructions for right hand, and then just says to do it in reverse for the left!)
White leather embellished gloves at right by second year grad Denise Dietrich. At left you can see her samples for the scalloping, cutwork, and artwork. Denise drew the "etching" embellishment on the backs of these gloves, working from the research image of an antique pair seen below.
Research image of antique gloves from which Denise worked.
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Date: 2013-09-10 07:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-11 12:12 am (UTC)Then for the complex project they draft changes as required, like the shapes you can see in the image of Colleen Dobson's gloves, for which she had to completely redraft rotating seams and slashing/reshaping.
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Date: 2013-09-11 12:18 am (UTC)I really appreciate they way you take the time to respond to my questions.
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Date: 2013-09-11 10:58 am (UTC)I figure, if one is writing a blog, a comments section implies dialogue is welcome. I know some high-traffic bloggers' comments sections function more as a discussion board for readers than a means to interact with the writers themselves, and maybe if i had hundreds of thousands of readers (rather than high triple-digits, or just breaking the thousand mark on my best days), i would not have time to respond to everyone. But, i try to make it a priority because really, i started this blog to document stuff in my field that i felt was in danger of going unrecorded, unremarked upon, and untalked about.
Great glove work :)
Date: 2013-09-11 01:54 am (UTC)Will you be posting more images?
Both "How to Make Gloves" by Eunice Close, and the 1970s Time-Life book "Novel Materials" come across eBay quite often. Great choices to reference since they are more available than the others. :)
Thank you!
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Date: 2013-09-11 01:33 pm (UTC)On Denise's project, how is the image applied to the leather? Is it actually drawn on or did she use some form of printing?
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Date: 2013-09-11 05:13 pm (UTC)