Showing posts with label louise bourgeois. Show all posts
Showing posts with label louise bourgeois. Show all posts

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Fabric art

Found some wonderful images from the talented Louise Bourgeois who died this year (at the age of 99 I think!). I was interested to read that her family moved further out of Paris to run an antique tapestry restoration business - I wonder what amazing tapestries she worked on as a young woman.
The images from the book, Ode de la bievre made me think immediately of patchwork. I was reading Kaffe Fassett's Passionate Patchwork this morning (I borrowed it from the library) and all I could think of was that there is so much to learn about colour.
passionate-patchwork.jpg
I would love to get hold of a copy of both of these books. In the meantime, I will keep gazing at these images to see what I can learn from this beautiful work.
Louise Bourgeois' limited edition art book.
{found originally via all the mountains}