rth, though looking at it, tufting does look very floral-English rather than the more geometric designs in beading & other First Nations art up here.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
moose tufting
There’s an art form up here called “moose tufting” --a very 19th-century kind of craft, reminds me of a Paris exhibition I saw a few years ago that involved Victorian "hair" art, woven jewelry out of human hair. moose tufting is more elegant: you take tufts of moose fur, arrange it in clumps against fabric, cut the clumps down to form flower patterns, and dye the fur. curiously, tufting only developed after Europeans arrived in the No
rth, though looking at it, tufting does look very floral-English rather than the more geometric designs in beading & other First Nations art up here.
rth, though looking at it, tufting does look very floral-English rather than the more geometric designs in beading & other First Nations art up here.
moose hair is the new matthew barney...and that is the way of the world
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