Textiles Transformed: Thread and thrift with reclaimed textiles by Mandy Pattullo explains that we don’t have to look far to be inspired, and that vintage materials and techniques can be combined to create treasured timeless pieces….
Published by Batsford
Mandy Pattullo first trained as a surface designer within textiles. She has since moved on, her practice connecting more with the fabric of textiles in new ways, such as transforming vintage pieces and using historical cloth to create timeless patchworked embroidered items. She regularly exhibits her work and and teaches in the UK and other locations. I love the way Mandy roams many countries, just like the beautiful bird on this book’s cover, she flies, locates and gathers as she goes, both experience and in fact materials to use in her own art-way.
The work observed is never too daunting to suggest that it is not achievable. It is folk art, it is primitive, in the most beautiful manner which any true artisan will appreciate and admire. She doesn’t walk the line of anyone else, her work is unique and can only be observed as hers.
She educates herself in the past and draws it into the future, intepretating her findings and translating them for us in the visual. You will be inspired to go into your own family treasures, is there a quilt with a past life? Or a napkin passed from a dear grandmother?
What will you transform?