Entries Tagged as 'flowers'

February 14, 2008

shibori silk ribbon flower class

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For those of you who just received your supply list for the Joggles online Shibori no Hana class, here’s another photo of the silk ribbons that Barb recently restocked. I’m looking forward to meeting you all in the forums and creating shibori flowers together. Feel free [...]

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 [...]

January 11, 2008

sculptural forms with shibori ribbon

This is the backside to a new flower I made last night.

Do you wonder what the front side looks like?

Postcard for the Pasadena show. Starts next Thursday. Anyone going?
Today our New Zealand relatives arrive for a stay. Tonight we go to the House of Blues at Downtown Disney to see [...]

August 27, 2007

there’s something about flowers….

It seems that no matter what medium I work with, it always turns to flowers at some point.
Porcelain flowers, photographing flowers, drawing and painting flowers, shibori flowers….