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Petra van Cronenburg
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Men's short nightgowns with stripes and patterns, 1968. Columbia Minerva Magazine.

cb2969ddf6b61953.png Fashion magazine 1968 promoting short robes looking like doctor's casacks. Popping colours: pink, yellow, orange, or combinations of toxic green and blue. Until the early 1970s *everything* was orange: you had the same colour like your waste bin or coffee machine!

Fashion magazine 1968 promoting short robes looking like doctor's casacks. Popping colours: pink, yellow, orange, or combinations of toxic green and blue. Until the early 1970s *everything* was orange: you had the same colour like your waste bin or coffee machine!

22101627ab273f3f.jpg Newsweek 1968 cover: "Male Plumage" with bright rose checkered suits, very coloured trousers and "plumage" for waistcoats.

430bb7a9d840caa4.jpg Visible mending on jeans fabric: a pink-purple-blue spiral of silk threads fixed with yellow stitching. And a rectangular silk patch with turquoise and golden fabric, fixed with intuitive embroidery in the same yellow.

Visible mending on jeans fabric: a pink-purple-blue spiral of silk threads fixed with yellow stitching. And a rectangular silk patch with turquoise and golden fabric, fixed with intuitive embroidery in the same yellow.

23c740b7e856651e.jpg Rectangular visible mending patch at the bottom of a marine blue T-shirt. The patch is yellowish green silk with dark pink stripes. It is fixed with intuitive embroidery in the same pink.

Rectangular visible mending patch at the bottom of a marine blue T-shirt. The patch is yellowish green silk with dark pink stripes. It is fixed with intuitive embroidery in the same pink.

e9eb5bdff4d1e05f.jpg A purple Viola cornuta with reddish nuances in the middle.

21a802facb50f762.jpg Office de tourisme with two big windows in a typical two-storey townhouse in Alsace, and windows with shutters. A stork with a sack in its beak can be seen in a shop window.

Office de tourisme with two big windows in a typical two-storey townhouse in Alsace, and windows with shutters. A stork with a sack in its beak can be seen in a shop window.

23d74e6e2306f0e3.jpg Zoom on the stork, a wooden cartoon-like figure with a yellow cap. In his orange beak he holds a blue sack. In former times, people believed that the stork brings the babies.

Zoom on the stork, a wooden cartoon-like figure with a yellow cap. In his orange beak he holds a blue sack. In former times, people believed that the stork brings the babies.

8c3a5e56969bf67a.jpg Same town, real stork's nest on very high lamps of a big parking place. The stork is the "national" bird of Alsace, and therefore, we have a lot of stork kitsch, are proud of storks, and happy that they come back (they were nearly extinct).

Same town, real stork's nest on very high lamps of a big parking place. The stork is the "national" bird of Alsace, and therefore, we have a lot of stork kitsch, are proud of storks, and happy that they come back (they were nearly extinct).

e174bb36a5e7c750.jpg An embroidered green dragon with reddish brown bat-like wings, spitting fire. Embroidered on white coton flanell, in a vintage oval brass frame.

An embroidered green dragon with reddish brown bat-like wings, spitting fire. Embroidered on white coton flanell, in a vintage oval brass frame.

2829c44b8015f804.jpg Showing the first steps with a cartoon.like sketch of the friendly dragon and the first stitches of the outlines. A needle where I start with filling them in green.

Showing the first steps with a cartoon.like sketch of the friendly dragon and the first stitches of the outlines. A needle where I start with filling them in green.

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A later state of the embroidery in a round embroidery hoop. The outlines are stitched with simple running stitch in dark red and yellow. As I come from drawing, I fill the dragon like I would colour a sketch on paper. I started with a bright yellow green. To give the dragon skin some texture, I use the needle to paint spots in different directions with this green and then add other shades of green next to them.

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A rectangular (portrait) abstract collage on a yellow background. The composition is based on a cross with the intersection point shifted to the top right. It's made with different white papers (transparent fluffy mulberry paper and lace print) and nature findings (wild cherry bark, a grea lichen, a very long acorn (like a pendant), an intertwined structure (root?), and some small copper stars. The natural holes in the bark are embroidered with silver thread.

1fbd3f829fa86781.jpg A completely curled and intertwined wooden structure marks the intersection point. If I remember well, it was a root found in a maize field.

A completely curled and intertwined wooden structure marks the intersection point. If I remember well, it was a root found in a maize field.

4836f2aade51fb9e.jpg A long acorn mounted like a pendant under a real lichen. It comes from a nearly 200 yrs old oak.

c9dea14022ce4e82.jpg The outer bark of a wild cherry, native to our forest edges. It's placed in the focus of the collage. The natural holes let me think of a writing done by the tree - I embroidered abstract signs along these holes (with silver thread). They look like unknown letters from another civilisation.

The outer bark of a wild cherry, native to our forest edges. It's placed in the focus of the collage. The natural holes let me think of a writing done by the tree - I embroidered abstract signs along these holes (with silver thread). They look like unknown letters from another civilisation.

a0ff1abc2b7f64eb.jpg Screenshot message: By blocking zirk.us (accidentally!) I removed 36 of my followers and 18 of my follows.

10333d1c6f2d4ee5.png An enormous hall like a cathedral. Only the raw walls remain, the roof has partially collapsed and lets the sunlight in. Nature is taking over the site with bushes and undergrowth: a few young trees are growing inside. The ground in the foreground is littered with rubbish from oil production. It's the central workshop of an oil mine over 100 years old.

An enormous hall like a cathedral. Only the raw walls remain, the roof has partially collapsed and lets the sunlight in. Nature is taking over the site with bushes and undergrowth: a few young trees are growing inside. The ground in the foreground is littered with rubbish from oil production. It's the central workshop of an oil mine over 100 years old.

4a21b1f5bdbeab57.jpg Part of my scrollbook with a needle and yellowish green thread. On a background of bright purple flannel a collage of small white lace, a square of a used teabag and scraps of saree silk. The spuares and rectangles are laid in a collage composition and get fixed with wild, wobbly stitches. One silk scrap in rosé has a beautiful dark lilac and red ornamental print.

Part of my scrollbook with a needle and yellowish green thread. On a background of bright purple flannel a collage of small white lace, a square of a used teabag and scraps of saree silk. The spuares and rectangles are laid in a collage composition and get fixed with wild, wobbly stitches. One silk scrap in rosé has a beautiful dark lilac and red ornamental print.

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A preciously ornated round cheese box with hand-made perlage and braid in orange and green colour shades. Inside is a green-grey moth, Jordanita subsolana. The wings on one side are hidden under a hand-made gossamer of raw silk, my symbol for vanishing. Once native to Alsace, they are now considered to have disappeared.
A tiny precious element in the same green as the moth is a piece of plastic waste that melted into grey concrete. Glass beads are fixed into a golden crochet "flower".

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