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Natural dye

Craving color

January 23, 2010 Inspiration

I was thinking today how monotone winter can be. This weekend it’s been raining, sleeting, the snow is dirty and the skies are dark gray. Then I found this photo I snapped a couple of weeks ago … I’m dyeing this work with fuchsia and turquoisey-teal, and where they overlap makes a kind of violet. [...]

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Talk about slow …

January 11, 2010 Katazome

(if you are looking for the Happy New Year Giveaway just click here. You may enter ’til January 15th!) I recently joined the Slow Cloth Facebook group, created by Elaine of Red Thread Studio, Jude of Spiritcloth and Glennis of Shiborigirl. The group will provide a place to discuss process, textile traditions, ideas on marketing [...]

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Happy New Year – Katazome giveaway

January 1, 2010 Katazome

I’m starting the new year with a giveaway designed to grow my email list and blog subscribers. Enter for a chance to win the 10×64” katazome (stencil-dyed) runner pictured below. The runner features my garden-inspired Meadow Rue pattern. It’s 100% linen, made from a reclaimed linen damask tablecloth, and is hand-dyed with natural pigment dyes [...]

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Still dyeing the velveteen

November 15, 2009 Katazome

So far, 2 coats of dye (out of 3) on these pieces. The velveteen is really thirsty! I have a feeling that, after these are rinsed, I will not like the bright white background. Perhaps an opportunity to try a weak natural dye bath. Painting adjacent stripes of color on this piece from the reclaimed [...]

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Owl on silk with Japanese tsumungi cotton

October 30, 2009 Bird motif

Some time ago I began to make some wall hangings with stencils I had previously used for other purposes. I put the project aside because I couldn’t remove the grid lines I had drawn before pasting the stencils. The lines are permanently locked in between layers of soy sizing and pigment dyes. I tried soaking [...]

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Variations on a theme

August 14, 2009 Katazome

I’ve been working on several wall hangings simultaneously this week. Two make use of stencils I’ve used for pillow designs. I feel they will work better on the wall. I’ve added imagery below each bird portrait to lengthen the format, using stencils representing singular elements — water, grass, trees. Below they’ve been pasted. I under-dyed [...]

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Considering a New Dye Brush

May 24, 2009 Artists

I need to purchase another jizomebake brush, used to brush dyes (or soy sizing) on larger areas of the cloth. I own one, but it would be helpful to have a somewhat smaller one to use only for colors. John Marshall is the only USA source for this as far as I can tell (see [...]

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Katazome Snippets for Free, Pasque Flower

April 15, 2009 Katazome

I would like to offer a few free Katazome snippets from my previous experiments. Toss it in your fabric scrap stash, add a small bit to your exquisite quilt, embellish it, sprinkle water droplets on it to see how the soy sizing acts as a kind of scotch-guarding, put a patch on your denim motorcycle [...]

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Pink sunrise and indigo crystals

February 11, 2009 Fiber Art

Two smallish pieces are in the works, one of which I will submit to the annual BirdxBird benefit and silent auction here in Minneapolis. (This event is the hippest art event I have ever participated in!) My posts this week trace the progress of this work. Thankfully I’m closer to completing these pieces than the [...]

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