The Woven Narrative

Shirley Ende-Saxe

Join strips of old photographs and documents into a unique format that literally weaves strands of a story together. Written text and and images will be woven together to tell a visual story about your life or the life of your family. A transparency will be added to the top of the paper weaving and joined to it with rough stitching.

Supply List:

• 1. 9X12 piece of heavy cardboard. Corrugated is fine.
• 2. Scissors suitable for cutting into cardboard, paper and fiber.
• 3. String. Kite, tatting,or crocheting.  About 1/16" wide or less, as long as it isn't easily broken, 100 yds.
• 4. 2 photo documents on a horizontal axis. These must be copies of originals because we will cut them into strips.
• 5. Color strings that repeat some of the color in the photo copies.You'll need about 200 yds. or so and this can be less strong.
• 6. 1 transparency of a text document, a letter, a birth certificate, a passport. These should be black and white, 8&1/2x11 inches and on a vertical axis. Trust me on this axis stuff but don't panic if you don't get it "right", we can make it work. Go to a copy place for this one. You can even write directly on a blank transparency.
• 7. 2 clips: bulldog, snack, any small clips to hold transparency to the weaving.
• 8. Needles: an assortment for sewing (possibly beading) and a large one for weaving.
• 9. Glue. Any regular white glue is fine.
• 10. Color sewing threads.
• 11. Beads, collage elements, acrylic paints and brushes. These items are for elaborating on the surface and you do not need all of them. You can even use your hair.
• 12. 1 sheet of computer paper.
  
  
• This is a long list but compact, most of it will fit into a large envelope and you DO need all of these unless indicated otherwise.