Threads of Experience: Fabric-And-Thread Images - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0918949920 ISBN 13: 9780918949929

Publisher: Papier Mache Pr, 1996

Synopsis

The artist and editor present a collection of poems, essays, and fabric portraits celebrating the lives of elderly men and women

About this title

From the Publisher:

THREADS OF EXPERIENCE is the first Sandra Martz (editor of the bestselling WHEN I AM AN OLD WOMAN I SHALL WEAR PURPLE) anthology to include full-color art reproductions. Martz selected twenty-four unforgettable poems and essays and combined them with twenty-four exquisite fabric portraits by internationally acclaimed fiber artist Deidre Scherer. The result, a wonderful tribute to our elders-their wisdom, strength, and courage-is a real collector's item.

Barbara Lee Smith, author of Celebrating the Stitch: Contemporary Embroidery of North America, writes in the foreword: "Just as life is built from layers of experience, Scherer builds her forms, cutting the cloth, layering it...We are dawn into the work through the eyes, and then note the years, the attitude, the humanity of these people and their surroundings. Each face is so expressive: questioning, confronting, mocking, conspiring, laughing, surviving."

This gorgeous full-color coffee table book is "a true gift and an inspiration." (Fiber Arts) THREADS OF EXPERIENCE intimately reminds us that life is full at all ages.

Review:

Deidre Schere remarkable artwork and Sandra Martz's selections of ageless words from twenty-four authors on the beauty of aging have created a stunning tribute to the wisdom, strength, and courage of older women and men through an outstanding anthology of intense, insightful, inspired, vivid poetry. The memorable art throughout gives perfect visual expression to the sentiment and observations brought to the page with an equal artistry of language and thought. -- Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Papier Mache Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0918949920
• ISBN 13: 9780918949929
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64
• Editor: Scherer Deidre, Martz Sandra