SILVERED GOSSAMER WINGS

Gossamer glimpses of silvered light, bouncing, reflecting, catching.

Combining, with soft translucency.

One of my favourite children's books right now is Kaito's Cloth. A beautiful poetic story of finding, capturing, creating and releasing beauty onto the world through the delicate impermanence of butterfly wings. Kaito sews a cloth shot with silver thread to create her own wings - capturing forever the beauty they have. This is my butterfly wing - a soft delicate weaving of textures into lightweight lace, shot through with some Habu stainless steel thread (raw thread, unwrapped) - silvered glimpes - so that when it moves, the fabric catches the light, and has a little bit of structure. The lace, a structured charting akin to lists being made, to try and temper the flippery of forces dancing in my head, taking my energy and enthusiasm. The texture, soft, tickling fluffs to temper the heaviness of winter coats and black outfits. The colour, a murky fine description of green and grey, deep, and enveloping. The entire thing born to show a beautiful tortoiseshell scarf pin - a dragonfly - for their wings have an equally fine display of beauty, intricacy and translucency, veining and detail.

"She took a silver needle, as fine as a hair. She threaded it with spiders' silk, as strong as love and as soft as eiderdown"

Comments

[di]

Ahh beautiful. I remember that book.

[Carson]

sheerloveliness

[Lin]

That will look lovely in the Habu.

[tyler]

gorgeous piece, please do post once its finished with that perfect bauble in place (love the dragonfly pin). i'm not familiar with the book but just browsed on amazon -- lovely, innocent notion of creating beauty. your writing is poetry as always.

[Creature of Habit]

Beautiful - and beautiful post!

When I saw that first picture in Flickr, I mistakenly thought THAT was the yarn (not just the fragile threads that make up the yarn).....I thought, what is she going to make with this!

Regardless....it will be lovely. It always is. ;)

[amisha]

so so beautiful.
i love that last line... "as strong as love"
so very much.
xox