View RSS Feed

Antique

These 'Ties That Bind' Explore Life With Father

Rate this Entry
by , 06-17-2019 at 12:19 PM (1178 Views)
      
   
Name:  hi-res.vignettes.photo-dan-meyers_slide-94c542ac9ee9331641b1781c03cb3c505a7a7c11-s800-c15.jpg
Views: 266
Size:  42.9 KB

In the fall of 2017, a dozen women in New York's Catskill Mountains came together for a craft project. Many of them were New York City transplants, and most were either retired or semi-retired; they needed something to occupy their minds and hands during the long, snowy Catskills winter.

Name:  hi-res-big-daddy-by-wendy-brackman-and-catskilled-crafters-photo-dan-meyers_custom-45ef95513c9c2.jpg
Views: 305
Size:  44.8 KB


What they found was old neckties, hundreds of them, which they cut into small hexagons to make a quilt — of sorts. The group, which dubbed itself the Catskilled Crafters, pieced the hexagons into a giant 10-foot-long tie called Big Daddy, and dozens of foot-wide hexagonal cloth "vignettes." Local sculptor and performance artist Wendy Brackman became a mentor to the group. She named their project The Ties That Bind — and all of it is now on display in the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore.

Name:  sophie-the-cat.photo-pamela-martin_custom-c63017a397ca39e24e2974c1085ee37bd9fbfe67-s800-c15.jpg
Views: 45
Size:  38.0 KB


Crafter Gail Freund lost her father a year and a half before the project began, and used his silk tie and a tie that belonged to one of his best friends as part of the work. A former magazine and newspaper illustrator who also spent years designing costume jewelry, Freund says "it was really comforting to do a lot of sewing and handle their stuff. It was very meditative."

Name:  working-together.photo-gail-freund-f3625fd09088a32d12111ad17b45c66041961cbd-s800-c15.jpg
Views: 58
Size:  28.0 KB


more...

Submit "These 'Ties That Bind' Explore Life With Father" to Google Submit "These 'Ties That Bind' Explore Life With Father" to del.icio.us Submit "These 'Ties That Bind' Explore Life With Father" to Digg Submit "These 'Ties That Bind' Explore Life With Father" to reddit

Categories
Uncategorized

Comments