Warp weighted loom I am moving! The hours and hours of spinning have gathered my thoughts into a strong thread that I can trace out in my studio practice. I want to weave a length of fabric with text in it I think… Text in Textile. Both words share the root Texere: to weave. I…
Author: kirstywal
Spinning a Yarn
Teasing raw fleece Using spinning to find my way back into my Studio Practice. Teasing out my tangled fuzzy ideas along with the tangles in the fleece before spinning both into a good strong coherent thread.
Fragile Fabric
Fragility Elderberry cordial My jeans are fragile after lots of wild-food gathering this autumn. Scrambling through brambles and heather is tough on fragile old fabric! The layers of erosion and repair in my jeans make me think of the soil ecosystem: leaf litter building up is like the layers of patch and stitch, but without…
Boro and Travelling
Darning on the train Journeying from Scotland to Norway and down the back of the left leg of my jeans. When in the middle of make-do-and-mend, travelling by train is good. There is a wee bit of room to spread out materials and tools – scissors, needles, patching material and darning threads. There’s even a…
Nothing to wear!
The other day I had one of those moments… You know the sort – I looked in my wardrobe and there was NOTHING to wear!!! Nothing that is except things I didn’t feel like today, or were too thin and light for the dubious Scottish weather with hail and sleet mixed in with the lively…
Musing
Sorting through my fabric stash I re-found a bag labeled ‘cleaning rags’ in my Nanna’s handwriting. Several of the pieces have holes worn right through, some have obviously been recycled several times prior to being consigned to the cleaning rags bag – I found pillow slips mended round the edge with a slightly different fabric;…
Walnut ink
Two layer screen print using two mixes of home made walnut ink. Walnut ink screen print on darned vintage sheet After many failed and splodgy attempts at making and printing with walnut ink, I have finally worked out how to get ink that is thick enough to squeegee through a silk screen. It goes nicely…
Walnut Ink
I am determined – I am going to do a silk screen print with home made walnut ink. So far I have tried two mixes of colour extracted from the green walnut husks I gathered on campus at Moray School of Art. The first try was far too liquid; although the colour was good and intense…
Fibre Alchemy 