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You've Got to be Carefully Taught

PROCESS

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Up Cycled Fabric

Shanah Warrick, a local fashion and textile designer, has been kind enough to give me her remnants of beautiful silk organza, toile, and other fabrics.  

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Free Motion Stitching

The fabric bits are sandwiched between water soluble fabric and free motion stitched in order to create a new textile.

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New Textile

After washing the machine stitched fabric, the sections are then sewn together creating one large textile.

Multiple textures are married together creating a foundation for the exhibit's message.

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'Writing' on the chalkboard

After writing the lyrics on dissolvable fabric, they are then free motion stitched onto the blackboard.

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Getting the look

The blackboard is once again washed removing the dissolvable fabric leaving lettering with chalk like appearance.  

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Blackboard with lyrics

Measuring 87"x40" the blackboard is to scale.  A sleeve will be added to the back to house lightweight pipe so the it can be suspended.

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Hand stitch on garments

Original minstrel lyrics hand stitched on period correct child's garment.

Red thread represents the red of the American flag.

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Turkey in the Straw

Original lyrics circa 1830's from Turkey in the Straw.

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Zippity Do Dah

The original title to Zippity Do Dah was Old Zip Coon with the chorus 'O zip a duden duden duden zip a duden day'.

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