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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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