The initial collaboration between the "acclaimed fiber artist Diedre Scherer and well known anthologist Sandra Haldeman Martz" has been well preserved in a lovely volume brimming with poems and graphic textile portraits about women of a certain age. Beautiful condition -- taut pages stayed unread, unmarked, unmolested. Slight bumping of unclipped dust jacket. See photos.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Threads of Experience: Fabric-And-Thread Images

Publisher

Papier Mache Pr

Publication Date

1996

Language

English

ISBN 10

0918949920

ISBN 13

9780918949929

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Near Fine

Dimensions

Weight

431 grams

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Synopsis

In their first collaborative project, internationally acclaimed fiber artist Deidre Scherer and well-know anthologist Sandra Haldeman Martz have created a stunning tribute to the wisdom, strength, and courage of older women and men. Scherer, whose work has appeared on the cover of five Papier-Mache books, captures both the inner and outer beauty of her subjects. Martz, editor of the bestselling When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, brings together a selection of unforgettable poems and essays that perfectly complement Scherer's fabric images.

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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.

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These volumes represent the cream of my aunt's voluminous collection, which includes signed first editions from a friend's defunct Lincoln City store, antiquarian tomes a Reed professor bequeathed decades ago, and the art & design section of downtown Portland's long-lamented NorWester Bookshop. Given spatial constraints, I've little choice but to liquidate the inventory she spent a lifetime accumulating, but my dilemma opens opportunities for the right consumer. Shop freely and enjoy in her memory!

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