Reclaimed materials are always interesting to work with. Silk Sari Ribbon is on the top of my list of these re-usables. The strips are sometimes too wide to stitch with "as is," but most silks tear/rip very easily, and I can make several narrow strips of silk for stitching from a single length of the ribbon that comes in skeins for knit and crochet.
This example above is from a sample for a study of mosses that is part of a larger project (more to come on this over the next year, I hope). Here you can see the grey and yellow silk ribbons couched in place, then surrounded by loopy, textured stitches in a variety of fibers. Is it apparent that I am not too fussed by the restrictions of realistic color?
This next piece has been stitched on a ground of hand-made felt to make an impression of wind sweeping through the branches of a potted plant. The heavier leaves are stitched with torn strips of ribbon, with mixed wool and silk threads used break up the blue with some scattered, less-solid leaf images.
Silk, wool, and a little cotton scrim for good measure . . . It takes so little to pacify some folks!
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