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Armenian Needle Lace Melva Hindoian Emrazian Needle lacework, 2001 The artist's mother, Mary Mardirossian, was a survivor of the Armenian genocide of 1915. Mary learned knitting and Armenian needle lace in an orphanage. When she contracted an arranged marriage to Abrahm Hindoian, she brought with her many domestic skills. The artist's father brought his faith in Christ and in the Restoration and her mother received this with joy. She taught the artist lace making when she was 14, but she also taught her the gospel as they sewed. Her love for the Church became the artist's love too. In this pattern daughters are being taught the gospel. In the lace one sees the endless thread as the eternity of faith and the blessings of God received through one's parents. The simple knots represent covenants we make enabling us to become eternal families. |
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