[NetBehaviour] 60 years ago today - music transmission across 4 generations of Catlows
Helen Varley Jamieson
helen at creative-catalyst.com
Mon Jul 6 02:47:24 CEST 2020
beautiful, graziano! & annie, i'm sure i've seen you wearing those socks :)
my mother was almost constantly knitting or doing something with her
hands (she dabbled in macrame, & after i'd left home she got into
spinning & weaving for many years; she was also an excellent woodworker
& made lots of things like coffee tables & bookshelves) but i don't
think i have any photos at all of her doing any of these crafts. it was
just what she did, & not something that anyone ever thought to document.
of course there are many photos of us wearing the results of her efforts
- we were the home-made-clothes kids at school & i can remember feeling
great relief when at high school, she decided to buy our school uniform
jerseys instead of knitting them herself as she usually did. looking
back on it, i'm proud that she made so much of our clothes - of course
lots of mothers were still doing this in the 60s and the 70s, but in nz
in the 70s - at least in the neighbourhood where i grew up - it became a
sign of wealth & success to be able to buy your childrens' clothes
rather than make them yourself. my parents were not at all concerned
about outward signs of wealth & success!
my grandmother did a lot of knitting too, including lovely crocheted
blankets that i have in storage somewhere; & after a long time of
enjoying oil painting, she then started making tapestry copies of her
oil paintings. my mother has one of these pairs, & from a distance it's
almost impossible to tell which is the painting & which the tapestry. i
don't have a photo of those either, but can photograph them tomorrow.
what i do have is a photo of a beautiful sewing box that my aunt gave
me, which has been passed down over many generations in the family;
we're not sure but think it originally belonged to, & was probably made
by, a great-great-great-aunt of mine. it has various mementos in the
lower part including a funeral card & lock of hair, & tiny matching box
for pins or buttons.
h : )
(i've deleted the other photos because the email is getting huge in size
& i'm sure we don't need to be receiving multiple copies of them all)
On 03.07.20 22:51, Annie Abrahams wrote:
>
>
> My mother made these socks more than 30 years ago.
> She learned me how to mend them.
>
> I hope you are all fine
> Best
> Annie
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 11:27 AM Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour
> <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org
> <mailto:netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>> wrote:
>
> Graziano,
> These are beautiful. So delicate.
> Thanks so much for sharing them. I'm fascinated by where the
> specific imagery would have come from- I'm guessing that they must
> have been circulated in books or patterns and given out at places
> like the convent.
>
> Helen, Gretta and Patrick, do you have any images from your family
> of knitting, weaving, embroidery?
>
> My mum is also a very expert needlepointer. I'll see if I can make
> her send over some images of the book of hours images that she made.
>
> warmly
> Ruth
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 9:07 AM Graziano Milano via NetBehaviour
> <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org
> <mailto:netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>> wrote:
>
> Hi Ruth,
>
> My sister has all the bed sheets, table cloths, doilies, etc..
> that my mum embroidered. Here are four of my baby aprons that
> she embroidered after I was born in May 1967. And some
> drawings printed on tissue paper that my mum embroidered to
> decorate the fabric of her bed sheets.
>
> My mum was born in 1928 and during those times in Italy her
> generation were only able to go to primary state schools from
> the age of 6 to 11. The secondary schools were private and
> expensive. So my grandparents, as they were both busy working
> at making and selling cakes, ice-creams, granitas, etc, sent
> my mum to the local catholic convent where the nuns were
> running embroidery workshops to a group of young girls. I
> remember my mum telling me how she really enjoyed those
> creative workshops. Then when I was a child both my older
> sister and my mum constantly entertained me by drawing
> together and telling me the histories of our local village.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 14:44, Michael Szpakowski
> <m at michaelszpakowski.org <mailto:m at michaelszpakowski.org>> wrote:
>
> What a marvellous marvellous photo Ruth! Thanks for
> sharing it with us all...
>
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone <https://yho.com/footer0>
>
> On Saturday, June 27, 2020, 3:31 pm, Ruth Catlow via
> NetBehaviour <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org
> <mailto:netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>> wrote:
>
> All the Wowzers!
>
> I especially love the accompanying documents. Michael
> I remember being bowled over by The Enemy of the
> People when I first saw it all those years ago.
> Helen, Gretta, Graziano do you have photos of your
> family's needlework and knitting?
>
> Here is the photo I mentioned.
>
>
>
> Hurrah!
> :)
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 9:35 AM Mark Hancock
> <mark at memecortex.net <mailto:mark at memecortex.net>> wrote:
>
> I'm loving these, please keep sharing. The thing I
> inherited was less a skill, and more an attitude.
> My Dad was a brickie from Birmingham who had a
> love of jazz and classical music. So I grew up in
> a household full of literature and music. That
> idea that no matter your 'station in life' or your
> education, arts are there for everyone, from high
> to low culture (if those distinctions even exist
> still), still drives and informs the way I
> approach art today.
>
> And I'm definitely jealous of your father, Edward.
> I'd love to have written for the British Transport
> films! Or GPO.
>
> M
>
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 22:51, Edward Picot via
> NetBehaviour <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org
> <mailto:netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>> wrote:
>
> I love this thread!
>
> My father was Paul Le Saux, who used to write
> scripts for British Transport Films. They made
> travelogues, part-documentary and part-artsy,
> about various aspects of the railway network,
> and the places in Britain to which the trains
> could take you.
>
> I always used to assume that I got my
> creativity from him, and he certainly
> encouraged me to write when I was young. He
> died when I was six years old. But actually I
> think I also inherited quite a lot from my
> maternal grandfather, who was a merchant
> seaman, an engineer, and later a foreman at
> the docks in Belvedere on the Thames. In his
> spare time he was also a bellringer, and I've
> got some notebooks of his, in which he wrote
> out peal-sequences for different numbers of bells.
>
> Edward
>
> On 24/06/2020 23:50, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
>> I can't claim any great cultural heritage
>> apart , on my UK side, from an intimate
>> knowledge of the Methodist Hymn book, and the
>> fact my mother late into her life desperately
>> regretted that she'd never been able to learn
>> the accordion, which she had *so* wanted to
>> do instead of the piano.
>> She also only ever wrote one poem, at school,
>> and it was clearly important to her, this
>> creative act, because she remembered &
>> recited it to the end of her life:
>>
>> *See the little Daisy bright*
>> *Standing there, all through the night*
>> *Pink tipped petals, golden centre*
>> *Let us go to the castle and enter.*
>>
>> Whatever frustrated creative drive she had,
>> she later channeled into an almost
>> supernatural ability to make house plants of
>> all varieties grow and thrive.
>> My Dad was entirely uninterested in culture
>> except for the Saturday pm ITV wrestling and
>> Cossack dancing displays. He did however love
>> nature with a passion and I inherited that.
>> As for documents -a couple of weeks ago my
>> cousin Jarosław sent me a piece of testimony
>> from my father which must have been given in
>> 43 or 44 & has been in the Hoover collection
>> in the States ever since.
>> When he related this he was three years
>> younger than my daughter is now.
>> One of my very first pieces of 'net art'
>> (sounds quaint now) made in Director, but now
>> just a piece of video, dealt with the same
>> subjects.
>>
>> The testimony:
>> https://bit.ly/37ZZcns
>>
>>
>> The piece:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYPBBYPyzxA
>>
>> cheers
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, June 23, 2020, 10:18:04 AM GMT+1,
>> Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour
>> <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>
>> <mailto:netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Thanks Renee and Mark,
>> I too would like to hear of other's
>> creative/skill inheritances. Nice idea
>> Mark... go for it.
>> <3
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 10:13 AM Mark Hancock
>> <mark at memecortex.net
>> <mailto:mark at memecortex.net>> wrote:
>>
>> I second Renée's thoughts. I love that
>> idea that playing is bringing the past
>> back in such an active and evocative way.
>>
>> I'd be interested in the creative skills
>> and tools of the trade that other people
>> on the list have inherited, if I may be
>> so bold as to high-jack your email
>> thread, Ruth?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 09:59, Renee
>> Turner <geuzen at xs4all.nl
>> <mailto:geuzen at xs4all.nl>> wrote:
>>
>> That’s beautifully moving Ruth <3
>> This post made my day.
>>
>> warmly,
>>
>> Renée
>>
>> -._.-._.-._.- R*
>>
>>
>> ****************************
>> a virtual embrace
>> wishing health & well-being to all
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Jun 23, 2020, at 10:44 AM, Ruth
>>> Catlow via NetBehaviour
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>>> wrote:
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>>> I have been playing my violin again
>>> since lock down and I came across
>>> this sheet music for the second 2nd
>>> Bach Partita that I played when I
>>> was much younger.
>>>
>>> You can see from the inscription
>>> that it was a birthday present
>>> from Rolf, my paternal grandfather,
>>> to his father exactly 60 years ago
>>> today.
>>>
>>> My dad John, who was a professional
>>> cellist, has a photo from this time
>>> of the three generations of men
>>> playing chamber music: Dad on cello,
>>> Rolf on the piano, and my great
>>> grandfather, Arthur, playing the violin.
>>>
>>> <image.png>
>>>
>>> There is something very moving to me
>>> about this cultural inheritance, and
>>> I wanted to share it with you all :)
>>>
>>> warmly
>>> Ruth
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