Soap, Silk and so much more
Yesterday when i visited a lovely fiber arts gallery downtown i realized i have been in a rut with my silk… dying habotai silk, and not stretching out for the thicker silk, or the more deluxe opportunities like devore. My style of shibori beckons using …
In my series of posts explaining the varied methods of Japanese shibori I hope you are beginning to understand how vast the possibilities are for dying fabric. And perhaps you will understand why I bristle when someone says “oh, that is just tie dye”. The …
I am still doing a big happy dance because i was juried into the 2013 Textile Art Alliance Fashion Show and Boutique. Textile Art Alliance is an arm of the Cleveland Museum of Art, and a prestigious group of textile artists that range from weavers, …
Shibori is the Japanese name for a multitude of different techniques for creating dyed or painted patterns in fabric. Where the fabric is gathered and bound there is a resistance created so that the dye does not want to run beyond the binding. In the …
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