Video: Needless to say: embroidered portraits of Jenny Hart
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
A little over ten years ago, American craftswoman Jenny Hart first took up a needle and a hoop, and soon she founded the firm "Sublime Stitching" ("Amazing embroidery"). The task of the needlewoman is to revive and popularize the "old-fashioned" art. Books, exhibitions, performances, collaborations with magazines like Rolling Stone and The Face, her own successful business - the 39-year-old American is by no means old-fashioned. And her embroidered portraits are very different from traditional needlework.
If about 15 years ago, someone prophesied Jenny Hart (Jenny Hart) that she would become a famous popularizer of embroidery, she would only laugh: "Since April Fool's Day, huh?" But somehow I still had a chance to try. Embroidery attracted Jenny Hart because it turned out to be quite simple and at the same time interesting. Soon she came up with the idea to cross a new hobby with an old love for pictorial portraits (at the age of 5, the girl was sent to an art school, and she began to draw with pleasure).
But the project "Embroidered Portraits" lay on the shelf for a long time. Jenny Hart did not believe in herself and believed that she would not have enough patience for such a large-scale work. But when I finally took up the mind and the embroidery frame, I could not tear myself away. The craftswoman jokes that she has developed a "handicraft addiction", from which nothing helps: neither coding, nor psychotherapy.
For those who believe that embroidery is boring and, in general, yesterday, Jenny Hart usually answers that everything depends on the author and, in general, what you sow is what you reap. Of course, in the 21st century you will no longer limit yourself to traditional motives and ordinary ornaments - you need to move forward. Therefore, the slogan of the company founded by Jenny Hart "Sublime Stitching" - "This is not grandma's embroidery!"
Jenny Hart was attracted by a couple of embroidery techniques, so at first her innovation was only about the content of the work. Pastoral paintings and touching portraits were replaced by works in the nude genre, images of tattooed ladies, embroidery posters. Needlework, shocking experienced embroiderers, soon gained popularity. Jenny Hart founded her own embroidery school, started her own business and began to write books.
Programmed embroidery of the needlewoman - two napkins forming the inscription: "This work never ends" ("This work is endless"). They lay for a long time on the back of Jenny Hart's work chair. They mean that the whole work cannot be redone, and that original crafts will survive the centuries, for needlework: paintings embroidered on paper, portrait and newspaper embroidery is forever!
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