Denise Perreault has created yet another beautiful window adornment, this time from vitreous glass tiles:
Tara’s Tiles, 2007
By Denise Perreault of Boulder, Colorado
Dimensions: 88″ wide by 28″ long
Materials: 1300 1/2″ square Italian and Chinese transparent architectural tiles in 26 colors; 1800 4mm Swarovski crystals; size 11 rainbow topaz glass seed beads; and large cut crystals, on brass rod
Time to complete: over 1 year
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Denise loves to take on “large scale [projects] with small beads,” and wrote an article with that title and subject in the May/June 2000 Beadwork. She is skilled with a number of weaving techniques, but in this case she square-stitched a bezel in two-drop ladder stitch around each and every tile. She used 5 pound test monofilament to string and attach all components to the brass rod
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August 20, 2007 at 12:56 am |
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August 20, 2007 at 1:25 am |
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August 28, 2007 at 5:33 pm |
OH! That is beautiful and just defies words for me. I’ve seen some work like this in person but it was a lamp cover at the time I saw it. (It might have grown into a curtain, I don’t know)
Thank you so much for sharing this photo. I’m off to look at more of her work.
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January 3, 2011 at 12:49 am |
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February 7, 2012 at 12:55 am |
Stunning! Really gorgeous – I have a question: how do you string the individual tiles to the crystals. I can’t quite make it out.
I can understand it each tile already had holes drilled through or if they had a groove around the outside all the way around.
I’d love to know how you strung them together. Oh – How much does the curtain weigh?
February 7, 2012 at 12:59 am |
You should ask Denise yourself. Her website is deniseperreault.com.