Sentences with phrase «knotted black thread»

In certain works, Clark augments found, sometimes historically loaded images and objects with multiple cornrows of braided and knotted black thread that blanket and dangle from their surfaces.

It's held in place by stitched and knotted black threads, like those intended to close wounds.

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In Atjeh, during the singing of the songs of praise, the singers tie knots in pieces of black thread which are then given to the children to wear around their necks as amulets.

These nine prints in themselves offer a mini-retrospective of the main motifs used throughout her career, from the early orthogonal patterns of her Bauhaus period, through her lyrical knots and threads and fibres of her Black Mountain pictorial weavings, to her more geometric and graphic works with their repetitions of triangular and rhomboidal forms of her later years.

Part safety net, part floating demon the long threads of knotted yarn that constitute the work come together in an imposing black mass.