Karen Logan Embroidered Handkerchiefs

I remember looking at Karen Logan when i was doing my Textiles A-level. I was amazed that she managed to hand embroider pieces of text from old postcards, even mimicking the handwriting.
 It's just such a beautiful piece, and something you would want to keep forever in a little red velvet lined box.

Nowadays some people who receive mail, letters or postcards don't really keep hold of them for long. Especially when it's down to emails, you could either save an email where it will go into a folder that you would never go back to or delete it, where it's erased entirely from memory and mind. You would never remember the mails that you deleted.

That's why I'm so driven to handwritten letters and postcards, especially vintage ones. To hold something that once belonged to someone from the ages of world war II, civil wars or any time before mine, would give me a connection with the past. Especially since i am one of those people who are so interested in other peoples lives and history, who can watch old movies all day and watch documentaries of the past. History to me is getting the same feeling a little girl would get when she gets a new doll or a little boy getting a Lego set. it immediately sparks interest and curiosity. Sometimes i feel as though i belonged in another era or decade.

When i think of postal mail i automatically think of old letters between two lovers, one sitting anxiously waiting at home whilst the other away on a trip around the world or even at war. Or letters put away into time capsules buried deep into the earth waiting for someone to find it, even letters from mothers to daughters, writing to them before they were born. I think of an antique box filled with old letters and pictures of mothers and grandmothers when they were young.

Or cheesy postcards sent from a cousin or friend, either on a beautiful chosen postcard or one that you couldn't bare to look at with bad type, and a 90's/80's quality photo.


I guess sometimes that's just fantasy opposed to reality, especially these days where it's really rare to send letters in the mail. Nowadays other things would be sent in the mail a variety of different objects.