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Shibori by Jane Callender Click on each image to view in isolation ‘Indigo Spring’ 150cm sq ‘Kaleidoscope’ 150cm sq ‘Dandelion’ 88cm sq ‘Spin’ 96cm sq ‘Pollen 1’ 50cm sq ‘Indigo Squared’ 97cm sq ‘Reversal’ 50cm sq ‘Splash’ 41cm sq ‘Curve’ 56cm sq ‘Split 1’ 50cm sq ‘Split 2’ 50cm sq Circular cloth 100cm diameter ‘Grid’ […]

Here’s a quick lovely resist dye pattern that happens to be one of my favorites!

Grow Heirloom Cabbages - Plant Red Express Cabbage SeedsSuper early, open-pollinated red cabbage cuts your gardening to harvest time dramatically! Dense, solid, and oval heads display stunning purple leaves protecting the dark red cabbage head beneath. Bred for the Northern US but does well in all zones.

Crafted with meticulous attention to detail, Honolulu velvet offers a sumptuous and plush texture that invites touch and indulgence. Its high-quality construction ensures durability and longevity, making it suitable for upholstery, draperies, or decorative accents. The wave-like design of Honolulu adds a dynamic and modern element to the fabric, creating a sense of fluidity and rhythm.

This is the color I used to overdye the pieces I dyed strong orange last week. It was interesting to see how different the results were on the cotton versus the silk. On the silk the results were more of a olive green shading to browns. On the cottons the results were between a turquoise leaning green and a dusty green. I am very pleased with this piece even though it was not exactly what I was trying to create. You can see that whether the fabric was silk or cotton that STRONG orange was in control! Although I sometimes know better to choose the colors I do when doing my dyeing, it always seems to be a pleasant surprise when I see the results. I have taken Carol Soderlund’s Color Mixing For Dyers classes – both 1 and 2. I do have the knowledge to control the results I get, but I am often a “by the seat of my pants” dyer! Even being that kind of dyer the information I learned in Carol’s classes is something that guides me. I learned SO much in her classes. My shibori techniques have been learned in Jan Myers Newbury’s classes. Putting the two together has given me the skills and freedom to create some awesome fabrics I can create exciting quilts with. If anyone wants to learn to dye fabric I highly recommend both of these instructors.

Work in progress 2020: tegumo shibori su seta per una nuova installazione

You can order ribbon through me here. Sometimes I am caught up and frayed around the edges and I can’t see the forest through the trees. For the past year this has been the most hit page on m…

LEVELS OF ABSORPTION, 2004 by LAURA MAYOTTE 36”w x 20 1/2”h x 16”d Handmade flax paper, handspun and dyed linen yarn, indigo dye. Artist’s Statement Levels of Absorption holds many meanings for me. Literal meanings, such as the actual absorption of the indigo dye on the pages and watermarks, and abstract meanings, such as (being a book form) how much knowledge we absorb over a lifetime, the fact that we never make use of our entire brain, that there is always room for more knowledge, learning and growth, and that also the tree-like shape adds to this idea of growth over time. All the sewing reflects the pathways of the brain and how we think; how everything is connected, how odd things can remind us of seemingly unrelated things, but they are all there and accessible. This sewing is also rather electricity-like in appearance, and metaphorically, referring to how fast our thoughts can be, our natural reflexes or responses to stimuli, and how knowledge gained over time can be instantly accessed once learned.

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One side of the fabric The other side While it may not look like it, the above sample is Deflected Double Weave. Because it's woven on just 4 shafts, it's a very simple two-block pattern -- but it's Deflected Double Weave nonetheless, woven as a collapse fabric. Here's the drawdown. It looks pretty simple, eh? The warp is 20/2 cotton in stripes of purple and teal, sett at 36 epi. The weft is 20/2 cotton in a deep purple alternating with a fine wool/stainless steel yarn in fuchsia. This yarn is what creates the collapse effect: See the weft floats across the second block in the warp? At 75% wool and 25% stainless steel, these weft floats will relax and collapse when washed with hot water and soap, because the wool fulls while the stainless makes it crinkle. You can actually take this fabric and flatten it out or you can scrunch it up to get the crumpled effect you see in the photos. Here's what it looks like on the loom. -- gauzy, flat, and simple. I used another yarn for the second weft in another sample: silk crepe from Habu Textiles. It's about 33,000 yards per pound, so fine that you can hardly see it! It's very tough to wind this gossamer thread on a pirn (I always use an end-feed-delivery shuttle for fine and overtwisted yarns). It breaks so easily, as you can imagine. I actually used a doubling stand to help me, where I place the large bobbin that holds the silk crepe at the bottom of the stand and feed the yarn up through the tube that's used for doubling. It keeps the yarn nice and straight, which helps as I wind it onto the pirn. So in this case I've substituted the silk crepe for the fuchsia-colored wool/stainless. The silk crepe floats and draws the warp ends in dramatically, making neat pleats! One side of the fabric The other side Here's what it looked like before washing, in loom state: To me, this fabric presents a real problem, because the sample is only about 7" wide! On the loom, it's 24.44" wide. -- that's more than 70% shrinkage, width-wise. So I like the first sample better, because it's about 12 to 14" wide after washing, which seems like a better width for a scarf. (That's what I want this fabric to become.) Votes, opinions? I welcome you to voice your choice before I start weaving! But before I end this post, I wanted to add a couple more photos. If you read my blog regularly, you may remember last month's post, showing a baby wrap I just finished for our new grandson, Owen. This month I finished knitting a sweater for him, using Elizabeth Zimmerman's Baby Surprise Jacket, knitted on #5 knitting needles with Kauni Effektgarn in space-dyed rainbow colors. I love the autumn colors and the vegetable buttons, especially since my daughter and son-in-law love vegetable gardening. That's all for this month! Thanks for reading.

mixed media textile art 43"h x 25"w ©2005 hand-dyed shibori cottons, paint, machine quilted

We have a selection of fabric off-cuts and leftovers from larger pieces of fabric that may be just what you need for your sewing project. Browse through the images to see what is available. Each piece is a different size so be sure to check carefully which one you select from the drop-down list. These pieces are also one-offs so are likely not to be available again once sold. They may also have minor faults and marks.

It’s a marvelously magenta blood orange and fresh fennel salad with a complex range of bitter, sweet, salty and tangy flavors that can brighten up even the greyest of winter days!

Contemporary canvas: Large knife texture white pink purple. Work carried out with a knife in acrylic paint on a wooden frame covered with cotton / polyester (35% cotton, 65% polyester / Canvas 380 g / m²). Edges of the canvas painted with black acrylic paint. Protection: work varnished with a shiny aerosol spray. Size: 92 cm x 73 cm x 2.5 cm. Diagonal: 117.4 cm. Approximate weight: 2 kg. Date of completion: 04/2021. signed work. Certificate of authenticity provided. Careful packaging. Materials used: Paint, Acrylic, Wooden frame, Canvas, Cotton, Polyester, Spray varnish, Gloss Tags:#texture #purple #pink #pattern #white #relief #colors #glow #gradient #knife