Featured Needlepoint Artist
Sally Corey Designs
123 Forest Road
Moorestown, NJÂ 08057
856.380.1364
http://www.NeedlepointDesigningWoman.com
NeedlepointDesigningWoman@comcast.net
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Sally Corey's fascination with needlework
appeared around the age of nine in the childish pleasure
of knotting string. At the same time she was already
becoming an artist, drawing portraits of her school
friends, and also a designer, creating fashions for
her paper dolls. Later at fifteen, an older friend
taught her to knit, but it was while a fine arts major
in college, working part time in a private needlepoint
design studio in Manhattan, that she put two and two
together. Having married soon after, and continuing
to design needlepoint canvases for a shop in New Haven,
while living in Maine another friend suggested that
she put together a book of designs.
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The result was Weaving Designs for Needlepoint, then two years later, Japanese Motifs for Needlepoint, both published by William Morrow.
Later she returned to New York City and entered the home
furnishings industry as a designer of custom rugs and
carpeting for a to-the-trade company in the D&D Buiding,
then moved on to designing printed fabrics for home sewing
and quilting, and later, for licensed Laura Ashley and
Arthur Sanderson bed fashions sold in Macy's and Bed Bath
& Beyond., as well as catalogs such as Horchow's.
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In recent years she has returned to her early fascination
with needlepoint design and developed a website to showcase
her updated classic, customized traditional and contemporary
designs in sophisticated colorations. Many of her designs
show the influence of her home furnishings textiles experience
as well as her fine arts training and work well with current
decorative trends.
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She
is intrigued wih the way color and pattern create a mood
and the mood she seeks to convey is a kind of glowing well-being
through balanced composition and harmonious color. Also
important is that a design provide the opportunity for the
stitcher to express her (or his!) creativity and work the
design in favorite stitches or follow a stitch guide to
add texture and individuality to the piece.
Currently she is also developing large scale decorative art pieces for wall hangings.
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The first piece in the series is called "Galaxy Mandala"
because its structure is based on that of the Tibetan mandala.
Shown here is a small charted section of the entire "Galaxy
Mandala" piece. It is counted out to be worked in
the Mosaic stitch, which gives it surface textural interest
in addition to the advantage of keeping the canvas straight,
avoiding the necessity of such a large piece having to be
blocked. The finished piece and otherviews of it can be
found at http://www.SallyCoreyArt.com.
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Sally's mission with this site is to advance the recognition
and appreciation of canvas embroidery as the continuation
of the historic tradition of tapestry art for walls going
back to the Renaissance times and further to medieval times,
as well. Although its various techniques are ancient, their
application to contemporary imagery and current color trends
for the home is limitless.
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