In a Minute Ago

… a different place …

In a Minute Ago has changed. This site first went online in 1995. As you can imagine the site has shifted and grown in many directions. Creating and maintaining a personal website has influenced my life in many ways. I now have two sites Pintangle and Sharon’s Sketchy Stuff Where is the textile related stuff? Visit Pintangle. You will find fibre related and textile material over on Pintangle which focuses mainly on contemporary hand embroidery and crazy quilting. You will find my stitch dictionary of hand embroidery tutorials and, free hand embroidery patterns. Pintangle is where I host the Take a Stitch Tuesday (TAST) challenge. Pintangle also houses many fiber related tutorials. Where is your art …

Playing in the margins with Stephan Schriber’s Gothic manuscript

Stephan Schriber kept an interesting sketchbook, as he was a mediaeval monk living in the south-west of Germany, who produced illuminated manuscripts. Simply described, Stephan Schriber’s sketchbook – dating from 1494 – is a collection of decorations, patterns and illustrations, but if you stop and imagine how it might have been used to produce illuminated manuscripts, its role in the process becomes even more interesting. The manuscript is of course highly decorative. Often, when writers refer to ‘decoration’, they are trying to suggest that the work is not as important as a piece of Art with a capital ‘A’. ‘Decoration’ and …