Thank you Anne ,, glue doesn`t work since i want my cloth soft and reacting to air movements. The moment i became clear to me was when i sat in a dark Photo Studio where a photographer took pics of my work . i had an iron with me and ironed some parts ,, than as it hang up i saw a wrinkle i missed. I said to the photographer to stop ,,,, looked again and told him to go along .. I too grow wrinkles with time , why shouldn`t my works grow some ,, thay can age like humans and that is their beauty. Glue for my feelings is not what i want. But i Show other Stichers in exhibitions , and i also preffer Non glued works. In Saturday in the opening , where some of theLadies show work that has been solidified with glue and paint this question came up , There might be a gallery talk and i might talk about it , i am not sure yet that it is the right place and time to discuss it. Since one of their teacher was a painter , he preffered anything that Looks more like a painting ,,less like cloth. If they feel at thisstage that this is their ticket into Galleris around the world , who am i to blow up their Hopes. With time they might feel different.
The works might break and have cracks ,, etc,,, I have opened several Old times Xst that were framed conventionaly and than the edges glued ,, all glued parts were ruined... [of course glues in Europe before WW2 , had a different content... but still . I agree with those who say it should be left to each one to decide What she/he wants to do ,,,BUT i think TOO many of you , Accepted this method of framing like a Rule of ....; A Xst work should be framed like that !!!!!, have any of you tried to Not frame it , or Show it a Different way .. or just experiment with different ways of showing it ??? are you aware why and how framing was IMPOSED upon xst ??? In all the Old castles where you xst it is NOT framed . Enormous xst rugs are finnished neatly with a background cloth and that is that ...
That is what bugs me in this discussions... mirjam