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#BiodiversityShrines

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Petra van Cronenburg

I'm happy like a small child to have found these at our international festival! So great for my !

Even more important are the talks: With an author of embroidery books who sold these "scraps", and the employee of the was just as enthusiastic as I was and asked me if I would like to join her in organising children's courses with on . Oh yesss! 🥰

Scraps of fabric covered with sequins in different colours, valuable braids with gold embroidery on orange fabric and one with pearls, mirrors and gold. Large, fine lace.
Difficult to photograph: A sequin fabric in a cold green. It shouted at me: I want to become a fish!
Two braids from photo 1.
A large braid with floral elements embroidered with gold, Wax beads, tiny mirrors and glass vignettes.
#luxury#LuxuryGoods#happiness
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Petra van Cronenburg

It is no longer possible for me to make "normal" . The of my is meant to be but also to encourage people to change their perspective through the . For me, it was a project to learn to deal with my . And it's a hell of a lot of fun! In with a QR code leading to the in Fr/En/De: ▶️ cronenburg.net/reliquaires/ You'll see moss!

The object is called a Supplication Stick. It's embroidered moss and lichen on a piece of bark from a 200-yr-old oak. More on my website.
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🧵 1/2 Preparing the texts for my exhibition of the feels so cringe! 😱 The texts are written in 2043, like this one (still uncorrected):
"The exhibit is probably a so-called supplication stick, as it was widely made at that time. People who did not want to despair of the indifference towards and the of species made the supplication sticks and passed them around in a circle in a .

A long piece of oak bark of a nearly 200-yr-old tree. The moss and lichen on the stick is embroidered.
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Finally, the idea for my ! " made a revolutionary in 2033. In the vicinity of pottery shards from the late Betschdorf and Soufflenheim cultures (early 21st century), they found objects reminiscent of ancient . An antique QR code will be provided for you to visit this page. You can also beam up in the form of a hologram." 😎 😂 ▶️ cronenburg.net/reliquaires/

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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Petra van Cronenburg

Finally the penny has dropped! I have an exhibition showcase at a rather conservative festival. My are provocative in a region with farmers who spray pesticides twice when the soil is broken (their logic) and far too many people vote for Le Pen. My idea: I build them up as exhibits from the ! . Catch them by and and when they are hooked ... bang! 😁

Tiny ants made of rocailles and the finest wire sitting on violet silk for a test.
Watering a big piece of bark from a wild cherry (prunus avium). It looks like a papyrus roll. Therefore, I want to fix it like this. On the inside, I want to stitch a fantasy writing with yarn, as if it is a find of an ancient civilisation. Wild cherries are a common tree at forest edges but more and more die because heatwaves and droughts are too much for them.
A red vintage cigarette tin box for an assemblage because we "burn biodiversity away". It is wallpapered with a page from a vintage dictionary that begins with the word "human". Other words are checked, forming a story. Inside, a "spider's web" of raw silk is laid out. The cigarette slogan is visible on the lid: When only the best will do. I plan an installation with my small ants but have still to craft some.
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Petra van Cronenburg

Today, I finished a new one of my feat. Jordanita subsolana, a now extinct in our region. My are a mixture of , elements of materials and "civilisation" , like the 8 cm wide cheese box and the precious -cement-waste. My inspirations come from , and my brain.

View from above into a richly decorated round box in shades of orange, green, gold and yellow. On a padded brocade fabric, the butterfly is pinned next to a decorative element. The inside edges are lined with braids. Around the edge is a handmade ribbon of perlage with floral elements in orange and green, made from the tiniest of limited edition rocailles and finest brass wire.
Close-up view of the inner. The butterfly has green forewings and grey hindwings. Its body is made of black leather and green silk. Its right wings are covered by a transparent gossamer hand-made with raw silk and some yellow and green silk threads. The decorative element is made of green plastic fused with cement. A flower is glued in between. It was crocheted from golden DCM yarn, its pistil consists of 5 green picasso beads.
The inner rim of the box in close-up shows how the perlage line is constructed and sewn down over the braid. There are three beads in each element: one green bead over two orange ones.
The outside of the box is covered with orange-brown sari silk. Above the rim of the box, the perlage elements stand up in the air.
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Petra van Cronenburg

My work today on the was mainly the old technique of = . On social media it's often called , but in France, we don't say that. Differences in beading technique are less national than temporal. Victorian techniques, f. e., differed from those of the Renaissance. Perlage was traditionally used for costumes, headdresses or so-called like . Here's the start: mastodon.online/@NatureMC/1108

Floral elements of 3 rocailles (in lustred orange and Picasso turquoise) on the finest brass wire are mounted in line at the top of the edges of a round box. The bottom of the box is padded brocade. A reddish-brown braid is lined inside the rim. when everything is stabilised, I have to arrange these elements carefully.
Macro of the paper art butterfly: Jordanita subsolana. The left side with blueish-green and grey wings is photo-realistic, the body is made from black leather and green silk. The right wings are covered with a cobweb-like transparent gossamer. It's handmade with raw silk and inlays of yellow and green silk threads.
The same butterfly shown from the other side.
A valuable-looking structure. It is green plastic waste melted and fused with a piece of cement. A kind of flower is mounted in a corner between the two materials. It consists of crocheted golden DCM thread and a stamp made of five drop-shaped glass beads.
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Petra van Cronenburg

1/ O holy laziness! I decided not to go to the museum because rainy 14°C is not so much comfortable for sitting outside. I will enjoy the pleasant coolness in my studio before the heat returns. My excuse: So many for the exhibition in October are not ready yet. (Look on the hashtag for more). So I'm going to skewer species (don't worry, it's ).

Flatlay on my table: a round box with a green-grey paper butterfly and a piece of green plastic melted into concrete, ornated with a crocheted golden flower. In Alsace, the butterfly Jordanita subsolana is on the Red List noted with "RE" = disappeared in the region. Precious fabric and a braid in orange and reddish brown colours are lining the box. Also on the table: two scissors, my glasses, a cup of coffee, needles and orange and turquoise glass rocailles for a colour test.
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Petra van Cronenburg

1/2 vanish like a . This was my first connotation when I discovered some cigarette boxes for my . Inspired by ancient , they contain fantasy species, precious materials like and "civilisation" . The realistic sits on found in a flowerless meadow. My are a project for an exhibition in October.

A vintage Benson and Hedges cigarette tin box in red. Outside I don't change the boxes.
The lower part: A butterfly sits on a randomly curved thick wire. It has tiny leaves made with glass rocailles. The background is a floral vintage tapestry, framed with braids.
The lid and the lower part of the tin box are furnished inside like a modern reliquary.
The inside of the lid is lined with the original golden cigarette paper. A bouquet of embroidered flowers is fashion waste from saree production. It is colourful and machine-stitched.
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Petra van Cronenburg

The Colias Palaeno was native in in Eastern . It is now extinct even in the nature parks of the . Since 1980 it vanished in 4 French Departments, which was 33% of its habitat. Its is humanmade by destroying . The butterfly was particularly vulnerable because it depends on a single plant: Vaccinium uliginosum. Micro habitats shall protect them. @fibrearts

A rectangular shrine made of a cheese box. The 3D photorealistic butterfly (greenish-yellow with dark edges) is in the middle. Its body is made of silk. The wings on the right side are hidden under a handmade web of raw silk with green and yellow threads. The butterfly flies over a small green white blossom made of the tiniest glass rocailles in French beading. Precious golden green braids are fixed on the cream-white and glossy fabric background. Hot pink saree silk stripes cover the outside of the box. The glue is still drying, the project not finished yet.
Detail: The greenish-white flower reminds the blossom parts of Queen Anne's Lace.
A macro shows the braid behind the perlage flower. It's a vintage braid. Green twisted threads are interwoven with golden ornaments.
Detail: The butterfly.
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Petra van Cronenburg

I mostly work on 2-3 at a time. Colias palaeno once was a typical of the , today it is probably . Its problem: as habitat were destroyed or vanish now by . The butterfly feeds exclusively on Vaccinium uliginosum, but this plant needs wetlands and colder climate. The is made from .

Rectangular chipboard box with butterfly. It is lined with ivory glossy fabric and decorated with gold braid. The paper butterfly shows realistic lemon yellow colouring with dark grey edges of a male on the left. On the right, golden silk is glued on, which will be still decorated.
Macro of the butterfly showing the silk part. The body will be mounted in 3D with textile stuff.
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Petra van Cronenburg

Working on my showing endangered or extinct regional species. They are inspired by ancient and . I looked for a way to confront people with in , far away from reports or pedagogical warnings. has the power to excite questions and talks! All are of . One part of the will be hidden.

A round cheese package is upholstered with a sunny yellow, precious fabric with a floral woven structure. The insides are covered with reddish-brown braid.
Detail of the wavy braids.
The paper butterfly, Jordanita subsolana, is placed in the shrine for a test. Its forewings have a bright emerald green shimmer. One half of the butterfly will be covered with precious artificial finds, f.e. beads or silk. I didn't decide yet.
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Petra van Cronenburg

Directly from my ! A veritable in all phases of life. This Helluo librorum was found in a French private and prepared by a employee.

The larvae are exceptionally shy of light. Studies by the Page Institute for Global Lignine Research show: Imagines are extremely rare, they only develop with adequate reading. Feeding alternative: .

Paper Art Assemblage like in a natural history museum: a large beetle with a rose and a book page pattern, to the left of it small glass eggs, to the right white larvae. A flowering plant is winding its way through the picture, a leaf covered with more "eggs". A handwritten sign reads Helluo librorum, French Library, 2019, PvC. Translated, the fantasy name means bookworm.
#bookwyrm#bookstodon#BiodiversityShrines
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