Now the assignment a business on a shoestring has come to an end, I think this may not the end of the blog. I did state somewhere earlier within this new found technology, that I was not so sure how it would work out. Well I have to say I quite enjoy putting imagery thoughts and processes down in this format.

The reason of this new entry is due to today's trip to London. I visited the fashion and Textile Museum to view an exhibition of liberties prints. Which I found extremely interesting to see how their fabrics have developed over the years.

Not only was a very interesting to see a large range of garments spanning the timeline of liberties itself. It was also extremely interesting for me to see some original painted designs as well as the way that liberties have developed these designs into such things as furnishing fabrics, dress fabrics as well as head scarves amongst other things.

However, this is not the main reason for this new entry. On a trip down the Kings Road and a visit to a fashion and home furnishing emporium called "Anthropologie" I found in an area within the front of the shop usually part of the shop floor. A small interesting exhibition of Louise Gardiner's fabulous embroidery work. I initially planned to research in-depth Louise is work in relation to the business on a shoestring assignment. There is a small section within the assignment proposal however this does not do Louise's work justice.

When I originally came across Louise's work I felt that the images I had were to small to work from. I did come across Louise's work again when a post came up on my Facebook page.

Images from Sue Hotchkis Facebook post

From Sue Hotchkis Textile Artist 10 December 2015 ·

I went to ‪#‎AnthroKingsRoad ‪#‎London this week & met @LoulouGardiner Beautiful‪#‎Embroidery well worth a visit. Her work is there until the 31st January in the Anthropologie Gallery 131-141 Kings Road

at the time I thought this is the lady I've looked into wow how beautiful must get onto this after finishing working on Richard box. However, this did not happen!

What a mistake I made,

looking at Louise's work close-up it meets all the needs stated within the assignment proposal. The work produced shows extreme patients and amazing talent. As with the work of Claire Heathcote, Louise leaves threads hanging within her work.

The time it must take Louise to produce these works of art, the attention to detail is stunning.

If I had the time to develop sampling based on Louise's work, I do feel that I would not have produced any work at all sell. May be it was meant to be that I did not get to see Louise's work saw close-up until this time. It would have taken my work in a completely different direction however I don't think I would have met any of the criteria of the assignment if I pursued this.

Here are some of the images I took today within the exhibition space.