The Thread Sketch Collection is an affordable range of little textile designs that explore and celebrate the experience of being a woman. Each piece measures 25 x 20 cm and comes either framed in a simple black frame or window mounted on quality mat board.
I first came up with the idea of producing thread sketches when I was designing the original “Princess and the Pea” embroidered thread drawing for an upcoming exhibition around 6 or so years ago. That piece was 2 metres high with the Princess reclining on the top of many many mattresses made from multiple fabrics of different colours. In order to work out my fabric combinations for all those stacked mattresses as well as other design elements such as the size of the figure relative to the mattresses, I decided to make a little thread sketch of the piece - like a prototype, or in sculpture we’d call it a maquette
Anyway whatever we call it it's a small version, sketchy and quicker to execute than the final piece and its purpose is to work out the design before launching into the big one and wasting all your fabrics by getting it all wrong. Once I'd done the small Princess and the Pea I started thinking it would be nice to make thread sketches of more of my larger designs and frame them so that they are nice little affordable art pieces.
So, I took around 12 of my designs, shrank them down to miniature and reproduced them multiple times in different fabrics & colours. I framed them up and took them off to Mornington Twilight Christmas Market where I pretty much sold out of them all immediately!
Since then, I’ve refined things a little - I have a popular range of designs that are always available to order. Each piece is individually handmade by me using freehand machine embroidery with (mainly) recycled fabrics. You can personalise the pieces choose your fabrics/colours and I can always make little design changes such as hair colour/style on request. Every so often I bring out some new designs and discontinue my older ones.
The Thread Sketch Collection is also now available on greetings cards and prints and also a wide range of other products via RedBubble
My Thread Sketches and greetings cards are also available through Incub8er Emporium Prahran
All Thread Sketches pictured above are currently available.