Monday, March 28, 2011

Jacobean Paper Embroidery

All the work I do with books, leaves me with lots of paper print offcuts.  I am fascintated with the different fonts and colours of the book pages and the way they age differently.
I have a serious collection of vintage craft books too, and so I used a Jacobean embroidery pattern as the basis for creating this poster.
The paper comes from vintage magazines and books.  I love the gentle faded hues!

10 comments:

Genevieve said...

These are incredible Denise!!!!!

Hey Cherry said...

These are gorgeous! Can't wait to see them in person.

Jesse said...

That's beautiful!

Denise Kiggan said...

Thanks so much! I really enjoyed putting this together.

Unknown said...

Wow ! Denise that is beautiful.You must frame them.You could even deco your frame with paper.***

teresaS said...

Seriously? I am in AWE! I love vintage paper and have a lot on hand myself, but I have never seen anything as lovely as this! You are so talented!! It would be fun to try this but I guarantee I could never get close to this !! thanks for sharing!

ann said...

o that is so beautiful!!

girl said...

Just gorgeous! Thanks.

Jess said...

I love these! Your creativity just keeps flowing...

Keri said...

This is really lovely - thank you for sharing