Inspiration for embroidery design

Back in the mid 1990's, whilst in India, I discovered Tara books. The art is these books has continued to inspire me over the years.  It all started with "The night life of trees", still one of my favourites.

This, in turn,  introduced me to "Gond Art".

And this opened up a deep well of inspiration, not only for me, but, for countless others.

This is a very good article concerning how Gond Art has been used in the Indian Fashion Industry,  mainly using modern machine embroidery.

And the illustrations in this article really show how the drawings, or parts of the drawings, could translate into embroideries, there are so many filling stitches you could use to fill in the shapes.

It was whilst reading "The London Jungle Book"

that I realised that all of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book stories were the folk tales of the Gond people.

Just think what Impact that has had on our society!!

Now I have to start some small embroideries inspired from this.

Comments

[Rachel]

What a very striking style!

[Carolyn Foley]

There are elements that remind of of aboriginal art as well.