Crane Designs ~ Arizona
(Marian Crane)

Waves and Strings
By Marian Crane
Scottsdale, Arizona: Crane Designs, 2009. One-of-a-Kind.

3 x 1 x 1"; 10 pages. Poplar and oak spine. Tooled leather and carved bone covers. Pages of linen and cotton attached to spine by two anchor tassels finished with glass, porcelain, and bone beads.

Marian Crane: "Embroidered two-tone strings meander across linen pages, forming loosely-intertwined knots. Reverse sides are finished in a wave-patterned cotton fabric. Designs can be read as pure decoration on one level, but are filled with references to types of 'string magic' found in many cultures, as well as the ongoing cosmological debates over wave and string states of matter."
$175

Rain Chain
By Marian Crane
Scottsdale, Arizona: Crane Designs, 2008. One-of-a-Kind.

A scroll 2.25" high (beadwork makes it 4.5); extends to 21". Linen, acrylic paint, cotton thread, glass, polyester, osage orange wood spindle with rubbed beeswax finish.

This painted and embroidered scroll was inspired by a few lines from the early 19th-century poet, Thomas Lovell Beddoes: "Tell me how many bead there are in a silver chain / of evening rain / unraveled from the tumbling main / and threading the eye of a yellow star / so many times do I love again."
$350

Secret Heart
By Marian Crane
Scottsdale, Arizona: Crane Designs, 2008. Edition of 2.

1.5 x 1.5" miniature. Star structure. Hand painted wooden boards with waxed thread closure.

Marian Crane: "Two tiny books fold out to reveal hidden pockets [where one could insert] messages or photos. Valentine hearts in acrylic paint accent the felt pages and wood covers."
$70 (Last Copy)

Star Dust
By Marian Crane
Arizona: Crane Designs, 2008. One-of-a-Kind.

2.5 x 2.75 x .75" (plus beadwork); extends to 14"; six panels. Iridescent leather, polyester, silk brocade, Swarovski crystal.

The phrase "To and from star dust go" is embroidered on the silk brocade side of this coin shaped accordion book, while the other side features two different layers of crystal embroidered polyester.
$175