What the h*** is needlework/art anyway?
Lesa & Mark Steele
Maybe is just been the people Ive been running into lately, but *nobody*
knows what the heck "needlework/art" is.
Never mind trying to explain the designing aspect of it (please fellow
designers help me with this---I've resorted to saying "textile designer"
for some miniscule understanding).
Does anyone else find that "needlepoint" is the only terminology the
general public (layperson) understands? And frankly I find it hard to
explain without a needle in hand :-)
Lesa
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Lesa & Mark Steele
http://nj5.injersey.com/~cs
Lula
Having been a textile designer/colorist in the past --- saying you are
textile designer is misleading because that's a whole other field.
But I can understand why you would say that---most people don't have a
clue to understand the term needlework designer!
Most times I have had to explain it by saying, you know, the designs you
see in books and magazines for embroidery and cross stitch? Then they
get the idea.
I just tell people I own a needlework design business which covers
everything I do from designing needlepoint/cross stitch designs to
publishing charts and manufacturing (painting all the canvases) and
selling product (trade shows).
I've found even after 12 years of designing it's not simple just to say
what you are ---a needlework designer---there's always an explanation of
some sort expected---because people who don't stitch have no idea.
Look at it this way---it's a chance to enlighten more people to the
wonders of stitching.....
Lula from Wooly Dreams Design
http://home.earthlink.net/~woolydream
Mary Jarvis
I've been stitching for years, have won ribbons at the NY State Fair the
past two years (and hoping for more this year) and have still not managed
to educate my parents and inlaws in the correct terminology. Both my
mother and MIL will look at a complex piece and say "Is that counted cross
stitch?" I've taken to using the term "counted thread" because it covers a
multitude of techniques and they don't listen when I explain the
differences between different techniques anyway! At least I have my dh
trained not to call it "knitting"....
Lesa & Mark Steele <mst...@stitcherssource.com> wrote in article
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Nadya
In article <33AB46...@stitcherssource.com>, mst...@stitcherssource.com
wrote:
> Does anyone else find that "needlepoint" is the only terminology the
> general public (layperson) understands? And frankly I find it hard to
> explain without a needle in hand :-)
I get a lot of blank looks when I say "needlework" too. I find that
"embroidery" sometimes gets through to people. And since I think
embroidery encompasses a LOT, I'm at least in the ballpark!
Nadya
Jerome Culik & Martina Culik Moore
Lesa,
When it seems (to me) that the majority of the stitchers in this
newsgroup and in the USA do cross stitch, I as a needlepointer
am always surprised when someone knows identifies my work as
needlepointing rather than cross stitching!
Martina
Lesa & Mark Steele wrote:
>
> Maybe is just been the people Ive been running into lately, but *nobody*
> knows what the heck "needlework/art" is.
>
> Never mind trying to explain the designing aspect of it (please fellow
> designers help me with this---I've resorted to saying "textile designer"
> for some miniscule understanding).
>
> Does anyone else find that "needlepoint" is the only terminology the
> general public (layperson) understands? And frankly I find it hard to
> explain without a needle in hand :-)
>
> Lesa
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> Lesa & Mark Steele
> http://nj5.injersey.com/~cs
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Linda Haynes
>t
>> Does anyone else find that "needlepoint" is the only terminology the
>> general public (layperson) understands? And frankly I find it hard to
>> explain without a needle in hand :-)
>
>"embroidery" sometimes gets through to people. And since I think
>embroidery encompasses a LOT, I'm at least in the ballpark!
>
>Nadya
In the UK a lot of people think needlework refers to everyday mending,
sewing buttons on etc............
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Linda Haynes
E-Mail lin...@locomotive.com
@pica.army.mil Lucinda
People I meet have alot of different terms for the needlework I do. Such
as
- Needlepoint (when it is really cross stitch) -- most popular
- Is that cross stitch? (usually said with a puzzled look on the face --
to me it is
pretty obvious, but I am very familiar with it)
- Needlework ... is that like needlepoint?
- Needlework ... is that like quilting or something?
- And of course the obligatory "knitting"!
Lucinda
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lrasmuss @ pica army mil
Nadya <nady...@europa.com> wrote in article
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> In article <33AB46...@stitcherssource.com>,
mst...@stitcherssource.com
> wrote:
>
tir...@earthlink.net
I am working on an article for the Portland Bead Society (Portland,
Oregon) website about the use of beads in religious articles (vestments,
ceremonial articles, etc.). If you work in any of the needlearts using
beads and create religious articles, and would like to have your work
featured in this article, please contact me at the following email
address:
My own work includes the use of beads in Judaic art. Pictures of my
secular beadwork may be seen at the Portland Bead Society Website at:
http://www.hevanet.com/beadport
I should mention that I will be the sole decision-maker as to what work
will be featured in the article, and will give priority to work which is
well-finished and presented, but not necessarily created by
"professional" artists. I guess you could call me a jury of one!
Robert Tusler
Lesa Steele wrote
> Does anyone else find that "needlepoint" is the only terminology
> the
> general public (layperson) understands? And frankly I find it
> hard to
> explain without a needle in hand
In my country the only word the genral public understands is tapestry.
I've moved away from needlepoint because that tends to include everything
from a rug on six gauge canvas to fine work on silk gauze. But saying
I'm a canvas worker does not mean anything except to other canvas workers
- some people think I make sails!
I think you have to select the language to suit the audience, and
recognise that some people will never understand. Whether they don't
listen or are just incapable of comprehension is another matter.
Robert Tusler, Surrey, England
rtu...@cix.compulink.co.uk
http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~rtusler
AChrist787
Robert,
You mean you're not making sails over there? And all this time I thought
you had a little boat with a wonderfully decorated set of sails. :-)
Anne
Anne Christopherson
"Old roses are full of instructions on how to live right."
Robert Tusler
> You mean you're not making sails over there? And all this time I
> thought
> you had a little boat with a wonderfully decorated set of sails.
> :-)
>
> Anne
Anne
I'm finishing off a needlepoint with a lot of sails and boat shapes on
it, which I call Sea Fever - 'I must go down to the sea again, to the
lonely sea and the sky'. Of course, my Surfing the Internet Sweatshirt
also has a sail on it. But in my sailing days I did not have time for
needlepoint, so the yacht sails remained undecorated.
Perhaps Martha Beth, who is a yachtsperson, can help us here - I fear
that too much stitchery on the sail would interfere with the free flow of
air over the sail and cause loss of power in the sail.