Crafts patchwork - Accentuate your style!

Contents:

• From the history of patchwork
• The creative component of patchwork
• Color in patchwork

Oh, it is beautiful and strange word "patchwork." What does it mean? And this is called a tricky word patchwork. From English "patchwork" is translated as "work with the flap." Craft patchwork characteristic features of a technique in which colored pieces of cloth are sewn into the whole cloth, and then they make a variety of interesting and useful little things (blankets, bedspreads, pillows, towels and even clothes). Patchwork is now experiencing a rebirth, becoming extremely popular. However, the patchwork is not a novelty in the world of crafts. We know it is a very long time and is considered one of the forms of folk art.

From the history of patchwork

Initially this kind of needlework appeared solely for reasons of economy. Beautiful factory cloth (as opposed to the homespun fabrics) was considered a luxury. That brought into play even the smallest scraps remaining after tailoring. In Russia, patchwork was very popular in the villages, where patches of different color trim sewn blankets and clothing. In Japan, quilted fabric was also a sacred meaning. A symbolic gift to significant date (66, 77, 88, 99 years), for example, was considered a kimono, made of the same amount of silk patches.

A patchwork crafts became home to good old England, where, after a ban on the sale of Indian chintz and implement the idea of ​​patchwork. But the history of this ancient craft even more than it might seem. For example, the oldest example of this creativity is the fragment of an ornament made of pieces of leather. Stored this exhibit in the Egyptian Museum, and dates back to the 980-m BC. Another example of patchwork was discovered in the "Cave of a Thousand Buddhas" in China. This carpet, clothes sewn from scraps of pilgrims, and the age of the creation already exceeded a thousand years.

The creative component of patchwork

Quilting, of course, the popular (even nationwide) invention. A patchwork itself - the notion exclusively Anglo-American. This folk art has now become recognized as a decorative art, as well as any other art, patchwork - a creative process. First appeared in England, patchwork then successfully moved to the New World with the first settlers, and it was there that he began to develop and improve.

If the first quilt sewed to save, then gradually began to lose patchwork utilitarian value, turning into an art with its own laws, techniques and artistic features. Patchwork characterized by its technique, which is based on the principle of mosaic. For patchwork technique characterized by the principle of drawing up patterns and ornaments of geometric shapes.

The main elements that make up the web in the technique of patchwork, it squares, strips, triangles and regular polygons. And as much as you can think of drawings of these figures - even hard to imagine. However, the names of patchwork patterns speak for themselves:

• Log cabin
• Well
• Herringbone
• Arable land
• Checkerboard
• Pine
• Windmill
• Star
• Honeycomb
• Flower
• Ship
• Stained
• Tulip
• Heart

And this is just a tiny fraction of known patterns for the products made in the technique of patchwork. Meanwhile, the process is not in place, and the masters are coming up with more and more new schemes for patchwork. Each loskutnitsy his artistic flair, his understanding of beauty and harmony. However, for the patchwork technique, there are rules of color combinations.

Color in patchwork

Since patchwork officially recognized art here "work" rules, which are disturbing, mistress-loskutnitsa may suffer a complete fiasco and get together patchwork masterpiece, made in the style of patchwork, something strange and motley alyapistoe. If the combination of tissue in texture and density is not limited to the strict framework for the combination of colors in the art of patchwork such frameworks exist.

Under the rules of this technique in the article patchwork must prevail (dominated), only one color. Other colors only complement it. Here is the proper and permissible combination of colors in the art of patchwork.

• Grey color: green, black, red, pink, blue, yellow, blue;
• Blue: blue, red, light purple, brown, orange, blue;
• Blue: gray, red, burgundy, gold;
• Purple: yellow, gold, turquoise, orange;
• Lilac: green, light purple, gray;
• Brown: gray, beige, gold, blue and green (celadon);
• Red: golden yellow, blue, gray, green;
• Burgundy: pink, green, blue;
• Pink: brown, burgundy, gray;
• Orange: purple, blue, white, purple, green, brown;
• Yellow: gold, brown, green.

Strictly speaking, the simplicity of the man-made art of patchwork both explicit and imaginary. On the one hand - simply nowhere: invented (or select) pattern, cut into shreds, but sewed them into a whole cloth. But you have to understand how difficult it is to come up with this pattern, it is not easy to choose the match the color patches, and the work itself with the technique of patchwork quite tedious and time consuming. But the real mistress, nothing will scare! And if you're a creative person, then a sin to refuse such a wonderful opportunity to realize their creative potential. Patchwork help you with this. Be of good cheer!

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