{"id":11124,"date":"2020-04-18T02:05:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T02:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daynajcollins.com\/curele\/?p=11124"},"modified":"2020-04-18T02:05:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T02:05:40","slug":"stitching-with-book-linen-scraps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/?p=11124","title":{"rendered":"Stitching With Book Linen Scraps"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My latest obsession has been exploring using little bits of book linen tabs, collected from when I rip books apart. I have quite a stockpile of these colorful little remnants.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been fascinated with the small size, the jewel-toned colors, and the raggedy edges since I began ripping books apart. In 2019 when I had my Salvage Collage<\/em><\/span><\/a> show at Guardino Gallery<\/span><\/a>, I first experimented with using the colorful little bits:<\/p>\n

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The Circus by Dayna J. Collins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This was one of my favorite pieces from the show and when it sold, the design idea flew out the door along with the art. Until recently, when those little linen tabs started to make themselves known to me once again. Over the past week I’ve been playing and experimenting with them every time I walked into my studio; I started thinking of the little linen remnants as stitches<\/em> used to hold pieces of paper together.<\/p>\n

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Stitched collage in scrapbook journal by Dayna J. Collins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And then I added some stitches<\/em> in my Great Pause Covid 19 journal<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Stitched page in “The Great Pause” Covid 19 book collage journal by Dayna J. Collins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Of course, I couldn’t resist making a series of stitched<\/em> collages on book boards.<\/p>\n

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Book board Salvage Collage by Dayna J. Collins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Book board Salvage Collage by Dayna J. Collins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Book board Salvage Collage with “long stitches,” by Dayna J. Collins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Time to go rifle through my bin of scraps.<\/p>\n

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My latest obsession has been exploring using little bits of book linen tabs, collected from when I rip books apart. I have quite a stockpile of these colorful little remnants. I’ve been fascinated with the small size, the jewel-toned colors, and the raggedy edges since I began ripping books apart. In 2019 when I had … Continue reading Stitching With Book Linen Scraps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6,355,411,239,297,388,415,409,292,393,362,1],"tags":[50,455,84,434,417,153,45,372,416,414,293,356,437,364],"class_list":["post-11124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alley-art-studio","category-art-work","category-collage","category-collage-artist","category-creativity","category-dayna-j-collins","category-discarded-books","category-faded-fragments","category-fragile-decay","category-mixed-media","category-mixed-media-art","category-salvage-collage","category-uncategorized","tag-alley-art-studio","tag-book-collage","tag-collage","tag-collage-art","tag-collage-artist","tag-dayna-collins","tag-dayna-j-collins","tag-discarded-books","tag-faded-fragments","tag-fragile-decay","tag-mixed-media","tag-mixed-media-art","tag-mixed-media-artist","tag-salvage-collage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11124"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11135,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11124\/revisions\/11135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}