Many years ago (about 45, I think)when I was a young
child, I saw an article in Scenic South Magazine
about a woman who collected cobwebs onto a cardboard
frame and painted on them with oil-paint. I do not
know if Scenic South is indexed or not.
Cobweb painting was, as it seems, a not-uncommon
form of folk painting in the American South.
There is an article cited in OCLC (19567023) about
cobweb painting in the Puster Valley, South Tyrol.
The article is from Natural History 1956.
Stephen Zietz
Head, Fine Arts and Special Collections
Cleveland Public Library
----- Original Message -----
From: Vicki Marsh <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:13 am
Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] cobwebs query
> I turned up a blank when trying to search for
information so ran
> it by one
> of our painting conservators and received the
following reply,
> hope it
> helps:
>
> "I am not familiar with this practice so I asked
around. The textile
> conservators informed me that there were spider
farms in
> Madagascar to
> produce a thread (similar to silk) for weaving
into fabric. Objects
> conservators mentioned the practice of indiginous
peoples in New
> Guinea and
> South America who collect spider webs to make a
felted fabric. No
> one can
> remember their sources for this information. One
of the object
> conservatorsmentioned that fabric made from
spiders webs cannot be
> washed."
> Vicki Marsh
> Reference Librarian
> National Gallery of Australia
> GPO Box 1150
> Canberra ACT 2601
> Tel: + 61 2 6240 6535
> Fax: + 61 2 6273 2155
> www.nga.gov.au
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicole Jackson [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, 26 June 2003 1:42 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [ARLIS-L] cobwebs query
>
>
> Please would you place the following query on the
> discussion list:
>
> Dear colleagues
>
> A painting student at the University of Auckland
School
> of Fine Arts came to the desk to see if the Fine Arts
> Library had any information about the technique
used in
> Victorian times in England of gathering cobwebs and
> making them up into a canvas to paint on. She has
been
> using cobwebs to achieved effects in her own work and
> was intrigued to be told that some 19th century
artists
> in England used them to form a canvas. Could anyone
> suggest a book that might include something about the
> technique, or even suggest a search term we could use
> with BHA or Art Abstracts.
>
> Nicole Jackson
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