Tolkien-inspired textile art

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Drawings and paintings based on Middle-earth are numerous - now Tolkien is becoming a more popular theme for textile art. I found a gorgeous example today:

http://www.quilts.com/fqf09/enVivo/SpecialExhibits/IQAWinners/images/full/04a-MasterMachine.jpg

This is "Tribute to Tolkien" - a prizewinning quilt by Sue McCarty, machine quilted wholecloth. Don't I wish I could see this in person!! More background information can be found on the Tolkien Society's news page (http://www.tolkiensociety.org/news/quilt-award.php).

[narfforc]

Wonderful!!!!!!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

This is "Tribute to Tolkien" - a prizewinning quilt by Sue McCarty, machine quilted wholecloth. Don't I wish I could see this in person!!

I would say: Don't I wish I had this at home :) Nay, I think this is exceptionally beautiful. There should be more things like this.

[Bêthberry]

There should be more things like this.

I think Estelyn should post a picture here of her own Tolkien-inspired quilt. I "lived" with it while I stayed a week with her--it was up on the wall in the room I had. I prefer its symbolism to the exact details of this quilt. I also prefer its colours.

[Faramir Jones]

Thanks for putting up that example, Esty!

I agree with Bêthberry that you should also put up some examples of your own work.:)

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

That is indeed quite a work of art. I've done quilting myself, and can just imagine the amount of work that went into that tribute! I doff my hat to her!

At the moment, I'm into creating charted needlepoint patterns which I sell through a local needlework shop, and last autumn, I designed my own little Tolkien tribute, which I titled "Stars in Shadows Shimmering." Given the limitations of the kind of design and the audience I'm selling to, it couldn't be very overtly Tolkien, but at least it turned out nicely:

http://mj-holmes.com/Images/starssmall.jpg

Perhaps when I have a larger collection of designs completed, I can go nuts and come up with something overtly Tolkienish. :)

[Faramir Jones]

That was nice to see, Ibrîniðilpathânezel!:D I'd be interested to see any more designs you come up with.