yesterday was our 5 year anniversary (no we’re not married!) and phil took me outside to kiss me in the moonlight of an almost full moon. it was lovely, large, and kind of orangey, low on the horrizon . i’m here alone today waiting for my people to come home realizing this is the [...]
dyed hands
Originally uploaded by iamtonyang
A recent comment from neki rivera (neki desu) at A Moveable Feast got me looking for info on sukomo (composted indigo) and I came across this site which had somehow escaped my notice. There is a great section on indigo [...]
If you read my other blog, Elementary Art Exploration, you know that March is printmaking month.
We will be exploring various printmaking techniques including gyotaku. Made we wonder how it might work on silk using
some special instant set dyes…….more on that later.
In the meantime…..
more indigo silk ribbon. this is 5 yards of 1″ ribbon done [...]
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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 [...]
playing nine patch with play-day indigo shibori samples……
things i learned so far about indigo dyeing:
-it’s messy- keep separate tools for indigo
-i like the variations of blue that can be achieved-i’m not so interested in solid shade dyeing which is good as that seems more difficult!
-the indigo vat is constantly changing
-i like to remove the texture [...]
turning from greenish-blue
to blue
-working on the depth of shade
oxygen is the life force of indigo, like a baby taking it’s first breath of air- it comes alive.
mysterious but chemically predictable.
watched a youtube video on the extraction process of indigo-
Today I played with the indigo vat. Last post I thought it wasn’t working properly but turned out it was just fine- I was just having a hard time seeing that the color below the surface was yellow green. It had sat for a couple of days now and required “sharpening” with a [...]
this week:
base dye black, mustard, teal, pink, red
iron and roll 200 yards of ribbon
pole wrap 200 yards of ribbon
discharge, overdye, steam set and dry said ribbon
unwrap, skein, invoice and ship.
made the indigo vat using synthetic indigo from prochem. i carefully followed the instructions on the website but i’m having problems (i think) with the [...]
Lately it seems I just can’t get settled into regular blog posting. I have so many things to make note of I keep putting it off and the list gets longer. Here are a few of the ones I can remember….
I did get a new post up on Elementary Art. Stats are improving [...]
When I was in Houston, my friend Jennifer from Atlanta gave me about 40 yards of 5 inch vintage silk ribbon. It’s all that is left from a purchase she made some years ago from a lot of silk from a French ribbon source. She had quite a bit of narrower ribbon at [...]
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