Claire Sherman Art

Here’s a tile floor from the castle at Azay Le Rideau. Very quilty!

How about this window from the same castle?

Or this window, from the abbey we visited yesterday? Also quilty.

It was because we saw this amazing roof in a book that we decided to visit this abbey. Isn’t it wonderful?

This is a tile floor from the abbey where Eleanor of Aquitaine is buried. If it were a quilt we’d call it snow balls, or robbing Peter to pay Paul. Here’s an effigy of Eleanor of Aquitaine, reading a book!

Below, is the wall of a building, across the street from the chateau of Angers. I think it would make a wonderful quilt!

Below are more tiles from the Abbey.

Here’s a nine patch, growing in the garden.

I Love these multi headed creatures from a 650 year old tapestry in Angers. I think Hagrid would want one for a pet.

This is a tile floor from the abbey on Mont Saint Michel, in France. It looks like a streak of lightning setting for triangles. The way the color is worn away, it looks like “scrappy fabric” choices. It would make a nice quilt.

This is what it looks like from another place on the same floor, where the glaze hasn’t been worn away. I also took a photo of a wooden floor that looked quilty to me.

This the floor of the AirB&B we stayed at in Caen, France. Doesn’t it look quilty?

I can’t resist adding a photo of Mont Saint Michel, which has been on my bucket list for years. It is only an island at high tide. I’m so glad I finally got to go there. It reminds me of my ceramic sculptures which frequently had small houses or castles on them.

Today I went to see the Bayeux Tapestry, which is really wool embroidery on linen.

It is about 150 feet long, and shows how William the Conqueror became king of England in 1066. They believe it was made within 20 years of 1066! It’s amazing that anything that old, made of fabric still exists (outside of Egypt where it’s so dry that 1000 year old fabrics aren’t unusual). This tapestry/embroidery is amazing!Here is a description of the embroidery stitches used. I’m  sorry that the photo isn’t very good.  I took it through a pane of glass.