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.
Category: Fine Art Textiles
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…
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…
Mending mending mending
The mission to keep my jeans wearable continues… Gradually the original fabric is disappearing beneath a layer of boro style mending stitches and a few surface patches. As they develop, I am loving them more and more, they have a really sturdy feel and are beginning to look really loved and real – like the…
Studio Practice
I am settling into “Studio Practice” at Moray School of Art; it’s starting to feel like I’m heading in an interesting direction through my explorations with printmaking, and just generally finding my feet in this second year. My studio space is constantly evolving and changing, and my tutor suggested that I keep a record by…
Fibre Alchemy 