The 20-Count Verse: In Sequent Toil “This week’s work responds to Sonnet 60, Shakespeare’s meditation on Time as a relentless force. I wanted to create imagery that reflects the fragile balance between life’s fleeting moments and enduring beauty. “The patterned geometry of a Turkish rug became the visual motif. By translating its intricate design on the book’s cover, I transformed a textile usually left underfoot into an object of contemplation, echoing the sonnet itself. Stitched on a 20-count Penelope canvas using the continental stitch, each deliberate motion became a parallel to Shakespeare’s craft: beauty shaped through patient accumulation. Each stitch a line of verse, each row a wave of time. “In Shakespeare’s sonnets, each line is perfected through inherited structures of meter, rhyme, and metaphor. In embroidered bindings, each stitch and pattern reflects generations of knowledge and care. Repetition in both is generative, creating resonance and subtle variation within a stric...
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