Peeping through long Gowns

Helen McAllister

Unique piece, 2006.

Material: variety of bronze, gold leathers and red hide, wool, frayed shear fabrics, soldering iron for mark making on tufted wool.

Techniques: tufting machine with wool yarn, hand stitching, bronze, gold leathers cut into ‘seqins’ and hand sewn in ‘fish scale’ layered surface and button hole stitch detailing.

ยฉ Helen McAllister, photograph Logan McLean.


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