Entries Tagged as 'fashion'

January 13, 2008

purple passion borealis

10 yard roll of color #6- Purple Passion Borealis
Credit for this colorway inspiration goes to Karren Brito as Purple Passion was the first color I dyed using the recipe from her book. Beyond that, it was pole wrapped, discharged and overdyed using a variety of colors.
I have several colorways tagged “borealis” -dyed over various [...]

January 12, 2008

the other side of the flower

This ribbon was done down the length of the pole creating cross-wise pleats much like bomaki. Currently, I’m only making this ribbon for my own work as it simply takes too much time to produce in larger amounts. As you can see, it takes LOTS of wrapping.

So here is the front side of [...]

November 19, 2007

EF goes to Japan to find artisans who still practice the art of shibori

I saw this headline on a style blog write up. EF stands for Eileen Fisher the designer and they offer this shibori wrap for $138 plus shipping. I dare say that much more inspired shibori scarves can be found without traveling to Japan for the same price. I’m just saying, if I [...]

October 6, 2007

maki-age shibori

maki means “to wind” and age means “upward” in Japanese. To make these motifs, I stitched circles through four layers of 3mm silk gauze and pulled them up tight. Then I wound thread upward from the gathered stitching to the tip, finishing with a backwards halfhitch- kind of like you would when casting [...]

September 28, 2007

silk shibori ribbon

just a little something to wonder about…….

September 13, 2007

another new piece-

Continuing my fascination with the 3mm silk gauze…

There have been some wonderful postings to the All Things Shibori pool over on Flickr if you haven’t visited recently. Some good discussions on technique in an effort to puzzle out (Karren’s word) how one of narablog’s vintage shibori pieces was done. I’ve done a little experimenting [...]

September 12, 2007

arashiscape2-another view


September 11, 2007

new work


August 23, 2007

Shibori update

The thing to know is that when the blog is quiet for a bit it usually means that work is going on. So here’s an update of some of what has been happening around here.
I attended a talk on Saturday and became a member of the Wearable Art Connection in Southern California affectionately [...]

June 25, 2007

more garden inspiration….

It was such a grand weekend in Southern California and I spent more time outside….

watching the bees collect pollen on the poppies

making flowers from shibori ribbon

wondering what to do with the flowers….joined a milliners photo pool on flickr

put up a shibori flag to flutter in the breeze
cleaned the turtle pond and restacked the waterfall, then [...]