Jane Webb
My attempt at the Centipede or Back Bone stitch 1
I got in contact with Anne Morrell who is an expert in Indian embroidery techniques and who is a consultant for the Calico Museum of Textiles in Ahmedabad, India. She urged me to try stitching as a way of beginning to understand the role of the practice both in the culture from which it belongs and as a way to understand the work of Ethel Coomaraswamy at that time. So here are two of my many attempts. I found the stitch difficult, perhaps more so because I was attempting to create it on a flat surface, when Ethel had noted that the stitch was only drawn flat to help the viewer, and actually the stitch would have been around the seaming of a bag. The stitch on the left is not correct, but I believe the one on the right is beginning to approach the way Ethel described the stitch.
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