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The Nature of Things - by Tommye McClure Scanlin (Paperback)
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Highlights
- The Nature of Things weaves together a life full of happiness and sorrow.
- Author(s): Tommye McClure Scanlin
- 232 Pages
- Crafts + Hobbies, Weaving & Spinning
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About the Book
In these fourteen collected essays, Tommye McClure Scanlin reflects on her artistic journey and how crafting and life are interwoven, two threads that comprise a larger picture.
Book Synopsis
The Nature of Things weaves together a life full of happiness and sorrow. In these fourteen collected essays, Tommye McClure Scanlin reflects on her artistic journey and how crafting and life are interwoven, two threads that comprise a larger picture. Readers will find themselves lost in Scanlin's full-color tapestries and comforting writing style as they explore the natural fields and woods of southern Appalachia.
A final part of the book gives an overview of tapestry weaving basics with diagrams and descriptions for setting up a simple pipe loom and weaving a small tapestry sampler. Glossary, simple pipe loom illustrations, and a resource list are included for reference.
Review Quotes
"If you have ever appreciated a work of art, please read The Nature of Things by Tommye McClure Scanlin. Scanlin, a skilled tapestry weaver, is an equally skilled writer. In writing about her personal journey to art, she manages to capture the universal journey-the highs, the lows, and the intimacy of all who create things, no matter what the medium."
-Nancy Peacock, The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson
"Tommye McClure Scanlin invites us into her artist's life-her walks in the woods, her doubts and decisions, the colors and threads of her days. This is a book to savor-and return to again and again."
-Carol Polsgrove, It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, But Didn't We Have Fun: Esquire in the Sixties
"What a welcoming and generous book-every essay a gentle invitation to walk in Tommy's tapestry footsteps, to see the world with her discerning weaver's eye and share how, with warp, weft, words and images, she twines her life and beliefs with the natural world she loves so well. It leaves me feeling hopeful and freshly energetic as I tread my own path."
-Sarah C. Swett, author and artist
"Tommye McClure Scanlin is a consummate and accomplished artist; The Nature of Things demonstrates how she has finely crafted and continues to craft her well-lived life as an artist and teacher."
-Virginia Gardner Troy, Ph.D., Professor of Art History, Berry College