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PapercuttingsPapercutting is an art form that has been seen all over the world, adapted to regional styles based on cultures. It should come as no surprise that the Chinese have the earliest forms of papercutting currently known to us as the 'ancestor to paper' has been found in China. This was dated as far back as 2nd century B.C. and is considered as important as their discovery of printmaking, gunpowder and the compass.

~Thessatoria's It's Your Life
Naturally as paper spread throughout the world this art form evolved, spreading all over the Far East through to the Middle East. For example Japanese Kirigami where origami folds are cut and Indian Sanjhi. 
This art form is popular to this very day, take renowned British artist Rob Ryan, which I am sure many of you here would have at least seen his work before! His work has been seen printed over everything you can think of, kitchenware, clothes, books and probably more!
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A short history of QuiltingSince the history of quilting could easily fill a book and has in fact has filled many books, I'm going to keep this rather shorter. As it is a short overview there will be things left out that the more historically minded might miss but there are so many facets to quilting that I cannot include it all.
First of all some definitions to help you understand the terms I use:
- Patchwork is the sewing together of many pieces of fabrics to create a new larger piece of fabric that can then be used to make a quilt or a garment or anything else the maker chooses to make from it.
- Quilting is the layering of two fabrics with a filler layer in between that is then covered with lines or patterns of sewing stitches to hold the filling in place. In modern times it also often refers to a piece of patchwork that is given a backing and a filling and stitched through. In this article I will use both meanings.
Quilting has been around for at least 5000 years if not longer and used to pad fabrics for ma
Still Life PhotographyStill Life Photography is much like Still Life art in general, in the sense that the photograph (instead of a canvas) depicts inanimate objects and subject matters overall. Often, objects are grouped together for this portrayal, which the photographer exploits to really create a fantastic composition. Photography allows the artist more of a chance to arrange the objects for capture easily.
However, Still Life Photography isn't as easy as it sounds. One must think about the lighting, composition, and other matters to really make the photograph attractive and engaging. This is similar to Still Life art, in which Still Life Photography is founded upon.
You could say that Still Life Photography is influenced from the romanticism of traditional painting techniques. Still Life isn't simply the arrangement of objects, it is the presentation and illustration of the natural world, something more than a simple record. Photographs represent more than just what is there, they represent ourselves t
Eadweard MuybridgeSo Eadweard Muybridge, why should all animators know his name? He is an English photographer who moved over to America. So what is a photographer doing in our Film, Animation and Flash month?
Well his photography is really quite unique for the time, he set up multiple cameras for his shots in order to capture motion in the form of stop-action photography. He was also known for creating the zoopraxiscope, which plays a series of images in order to create the illusion of motion, in other words very early animation work! These series of images were on disc that were spun and projected, so the images loop in sequence. Kind of like your first generation animated gifs!
His photography work and his zoopraxiscope helped people to study in detail how things move. From the way people walk, jumping, running through to horses galloping. And as a tutor once said to me, if you can animate a horse, you can animate anything. These images surprised many people, such as when a horse runs, there is a pha
Out of Narnia... sort ofHere I'm presenting you 10 absolutely extraordinary fantasy and history inspired clothing Artisan Crafters - watch out for the awesomeness overload!
:iconfairysiren: ~Fairysiren - "full of art, fashion, history and hand-made wonders."

:icondaisyviktoria: ~DaisyViktoria - "making clothes and costumes since she was seven."

:iconangirias: ~Angirias - mastering fantasy clothing to the point of madness.

:iconSomniaRomantica: *SomniaRomantica - historically inspired fashion creations.
Dress Sepiolite, Somnia Romantica by M Turin by *SomniaRomantica
Japanese TemariAn introduction to vast world of embroidered balls for #ArtHistoryProject.
History
Temari, coming from words hand (te) and ball (mari), truly began as a simple toy. Around 7th century game Kemari (similar to hacky sack nowadays) derived from China's Cuju game was introduced in Japan. At first, it was played with leather ball. But as the ball games evolved into tossing and catching, first hand balls were created. Those were made mostly from scraps of old kimonos, wrapped with string so tightly that they would actually bounce.
Around 16th century, noblewomen started wind the balls with colorful silk threads and embroidering them. While competing with one another, the patterns would become more and more perfected and intriguing. Mothers gave temari to they children on New Year's Eve, not just for playing, but as a "love token". Inside some mari cores you could even find piece of paper with mother's w
William KentridgeWilliam Kentridge is a South African born filmmaker, sculptor and artist. His works are full of narrative that is influenced by politics and his studies in theatre. He generally works in traditional media such as charcoal and pastels. Some of his most memorable works were between the years of 1989 and 1996, which were a series of animations as viewed through the eyes of three different running characters.
During this period of time his works talked about the politics, social issues such as race and class, and injustice in South Africa at the time. Whilst his works are often about his views about what is going on, sometimes there are autobiographical elements in it as he has included his own image in his work.
The way he treats his materials also adds to the messages he is trying to get across. Rubbing out charcoal lines, drawing over it, but of course charcoal never cleans off completely so you can get a sense of the passing of time, decay and memory in his film.
"In the same w
Art History- Welcome to Literature!
Hello everyone! :wave:
This Month, the #ArtHistoryProject has collaborated with #CRLiterature to bring you a whole month of Literature history! We have got a very exciting month ahead, varying through an array for specialist subjects from six word stories, to chidlren’s literature and from tricksters to fantasy literature. Hopefully there will be lots of informative articles that interest you as a reader!
From early hieroglyphics to 50 Shades of Grey, literature has had a wonderful and varied journey,  one which spreads over many genres, styles and cultures. This month we will be looking at just some of these through a series of articles written by members of the literature community. These articles are snippets of the great history this proud art form has to boast.
We are inviting everyone, not just “writers” to come and get involved with this month! Maybe you will uncover a subject you knew nothing about but found deeply interesting, or feel
A Look at EmbroideryWhat is embroidery?
Embroidery is a sub-genre of Needlecraft. It is broadly defined as the art of decorating fabric or similar materials with a needle and thread (or yarn).
The applications of embroidery are as wide as imagination allows. It has been and still is widely used to decorate all manner of clothing, from wedding gowns to hats. Embroidery is used to make rugs, adorn quilts or even to make pictures out of.

Embroidery first found its roots in ancient China, around 500-300BCE. The need for stitches to mend, tailor and reinforce cloth led to the development of many new sewing techniques. The decorative potential of these stitches was quickly realised, and soon the art form of embroidery was born. Each culture has its own history, tradition and style of embroidery, each as beautiful and captivating as the next.
Today, machine embroidery has lessened the prevalence of hand embroidery, but there are still many individuals who practise it, both as hobbyists and pr
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As you wander around deviantART pages, there is noticeably one art medium that invades almost every element of the site. Whether it is the deviantART galleries, journals, news section, comments, forums, chatrooms, avatars or even dA profiles, it is hard to find a spot that hasn't been infiltrated by a familiar set of small, coloured, pixel circles. The art form I am talking about is of course the emoticon and throughout the past 10 or so years they have been happily adopted by deviantART and its community.
Although emoticons can often be spotted on a wide range of other instant messengers (IMs) and social media sites, deviantART has come to house a unique branch of these miniature art pieces. Whilst the majority of these alternative sites opt for simple, predominately yellow emotes with a range of basic expressions, the art community here at dA have stretched the art form far beyond its natural boundaries and developed entirely new styles of emoticons
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Dotted Underlines reveal interesting facts when hovered over.
At the bottom of the article are features!
Prosepoetry: A History
In the beginning there was prose and there was poetry. Prose was well-suited for the telling of stories, fiction and non-fiction alike. Similarly, but usually more succinctly, poetry can deal with the same subject matter, but with a wider array of phonetic and aesthetic tools at his or her disposal for the writer. Enter the prosepoem: a composition written as prose but having the concentrated, rhythmic, figurative language characteristic of poetry.
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"It was the Chinese who really discovered the means of communication that was to dominate until our age."


A. Hyatt Mayor

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(scene from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas)
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Fox, Fol
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Quilts on dA - A Feature

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 2:06 PM
Quilting is one of the many Artisan crafts that takes a lot of time to get a result so even avid quilters don't submit many deviations in the course of a year.  As a result there are not as many quilts submitted to dA as for example polymer clay and jewellery items. To introduce you to the many variations in quilting styles and subjects on dA I've split them up into several subsections.

Single patch quilts

A one patch quilt is a quilt that uses a single shape to create the whole quilt - so just squares or rectangles etc.

  

3, 4 and 9 patch quilts

These are quilts that have a unit that is split into 3 or 9 subsections which can be a single piece of fabric or several sewn together to create part of a pattern.

 

Appliqué quilts

Appliqué quilts are quilts that have most if not all of the pattern appliquéd to them.



Art Quilts

Art quilts are quilts intended to be a piece of art that is hung on a wall, usually with embellishments and not intended to be used in any other way.


Crazy Quilts

These are a form of quilt that was first popular in Victorian times and is again popular amongst many quilters. They are made with many different kinds of fabrics at many angles, not all that would normally be used on quilts like velvet, the seams are often embroidered and many additional embellishments are added.



Paper Pieced

Paper piecing is a method in which you basically sew the fabric to a paper pattern and then at the end remove the paper before quilting.


Other quilts

Quilts that do not fit the other categories I made here.


Fan art quilts

These need no explanation.


As you can see there are many, many types of quilts on dA I hope you enjoyed the ones I shared here and hope that it will inspire you to consider making one yourself.



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A Short overview of some of the many kinds of quilts you can find on dA.
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*Mattsma Dec 30, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Once the fight is over with my sewing machine, I do have two quilts to finish :D Lovely features too!
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=Magical525 Dec 30, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Nothing like a good clean, a drop of oil and re-threading to fix a lot of sewing machine fussiness ;)

Thanks <3
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*Mattsma Dec 30, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Yes ma'am, I just found the oil for it and will be working on that after I get my room cleaned up from this weekends mess making :D
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=Magical525 Dec 30, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
YAY!!

Now go clean your room! :lol:
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*Mattsma Dec 30, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
I know right??!! It's a mess!
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=Magical525 Dec 31, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Naughty girl!
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*Mattsma Dec 31, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
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*unicornslave Dec 30, 2012
Great post! I really enjoyed the journey through different types of quilts and their oh-so-different looks even within a 'category'.
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=Magical525 Dec 30, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Thanks :D It is amazing how quilts can be so diverse even if they use the exact same pattern.
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