Makerspaces: Combining Information Literacy with Pattern Design for Fiber Art through Digital Images

Carmen, Julie

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Title

Makerspaces: Combining Information Literacy with Pattern Design for Fiber Art through Digital Images

Author(s)

Carmen, Julie

Issue Date

2021

Keyword(s)

• information literacy
• digital images
• makerspace

Abstract

This article shares a practice of using digital images to create patterns for embroidery with aspects of information literacy within makerspaces. The author shares her enjoyment of a fiber art practice born of using digital images to create fiber art patterns from rare illuminated manuscripts. The author suggests that because images from these manuscripts are often considered hidden images, offering a program for pattern design will increase research discovery and opportunities for scholarship.1 This autoethnography offers one librarian’s experience using digital images from rare illuminated manuscripts and the ancient embroidery technique laid work to create colorful fiber copies of musical instruments and musicians for her art piece “The Medieval Screen.”2 Laid work is documented from the famous Bayeux Tapestry, and fiber copies of hidden images are one vibrant way to display forgotten images.3 The author asks if there will be a significant increase in downloads and views of historical digital images from offering makerspaces to teach this method combined with information literacy.

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press and the Illinois School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Series/Report Name or Number

Library Trends 69 (3). Winter 2021

ISSN

0024-2594

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/109990

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2021.0005

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