Considering Sketchbooks

Recently I’ve been dipping into various books on textiles as well as going to a mixed media sketchbook course. A few things have resonated with me.

- Sketchbooks don’t have to be bound, they can just be a collection of ‘pages’.

- The pages don’t have to be presented in a 2D way, they can be in a 3D container.

- The pages can be worked on in a 3D way, any stitching doesn’t have to be flat.

In the mixed media class I’ve experimented with using stitches for printing, first making a printing block - stitches worked on card - and then using photocopies of stitch for printing plates using gum arabic. Lately some of my own looser sketches, worked quickly, are finding their way into the work too.

Corinne Renow-Clarke