Comments on: Universal Modern? http://raggedclothcafe.com/2007/10/28/universal-modern/ Discussions and ideas about art and textile art Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: June http://raggedclothcafe.com/2007/10/28/universal-modern/#comment-1298 Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:45:39 +0000 http://junomain.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/universal-modern/#comment-1298 Perhaps it’s the commercial patterns that bore me, Clairan. I certainly love shibori or any of its Americanized cousins, where the dye patterns repeat with serendiptous variations. But plaids — well, you have to remember I’m of the madras plaid generation — what we all wore in college (or were supposed to).

Yet I like Sean Scully a lot, and his work is definitely about repetition, sometimes even plaid.

It’s the machine-ness of pattern that I am not very interested in, I think. And so I tarred the whole idea with that smear. And of course, people can do amazing things with commercial fabrics, plaids included, but that’s way beyond me.

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