{"id":502,"date":"2013-02-08T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/08\/valentines-day-flowers-and-candy-2\/"},"modified":"2013-02-08T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T22:08:00","slug":"valentines-day-flowers-and-candy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/valentines-day-flowers-and-candy-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Valentine’s Day – Flowers and Candy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nValentine\u2019s Day – Flowers and Candy<\/div>\n
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\nThink of a Valentine\u2019s Day card:  all lacey, beribboned and beaded.  Those Victorians loved, loved, loved anything lavishly
\nembellished.  Actually, the French have
\na word for these trimmings: PASSEMENTERIE.<\/div>\n
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\nSince there is nothing I love more than a box of trim and
\nlace scraps with a few buttons and beads thrown in (I could spend hours sorting
\nand separating and imagining beautiful creations I would make) it should come
\nas no surprise that I greatly admire fiber artist, Candace Kling.  For more than 25 years Kling has created the
\nmost fanciful, lavish and imaginative fashion accessories from ribbon.   A graduate of California College of Arts and
\nCrafts, she had also studied at Parson\u2019s School of Design and the San Francisco
\nArt Institute.<\/div>\n
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\nHer fascination with vintage ribbon creations has led to a
\nwell known career in ribbonwork, creating fantasy out of folded, runched,
\nquilled and gathered ribbons.  She does
\nnot rely solely on the 19thC creations and their techniques, but constantly
\nreinvents her medium into what may be seen as sculpture.<\/div>\n
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\n This is a very lovely instructional book on ribbonwork.  The illustrations are easy to understand and
\nfollow.  The photography is well done,
\nglorious floral sprays adorn nearly every page.  There are also historic references to those needleworkers working
\nin ateliers who first produced these beautiful embellishments.<\/div>\n
\nThe Arful Ribbon, Candace Kling, C&T Publishing, 1996<\/div>\n
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\nCandace was featured in this volume from Threads
\nMagazine.  The cover shows her ribbon
\ncandy creations, while an article on her studio shows many of her fantastical
\nheaddresses.<\/div>\n
\nStitchery and Needle Lace, Threads Magazine, Taunton Press,
\n1991<\/div>\n
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\nHere are some of my attempts at her needle style.<\/div>\n
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\nFor more information please visit candacekling.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Valentine\u2019s Day – Flowers and Candy Think of a Valentine\u2019s Day card:  all lacey, beribboned and beaded.  Those Victorians loved, loved, loved anything lavishly embellished.  Actually, the French have a word for these trimmings: PASSEMENTERIE. Since there is nothing I love more than a box of trim and lace scraps with a few buttons and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-candace-kling","category-ribbonwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}