Preparing to play

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 23, 2013

Finished up at the old job yesterday afternoon, exit interview complete. I’m free! For the next five days, I have no work obligations whatsoever. So now it’s time to start playing! Today I plan to play with soy wax on dry fabric (pretreated with soda ash). I’ve divided 15 yards of fabric into 1-yard pieces [...]

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Planning a five-day orgy

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 21, 2013

An orgy of studio work, that is. (Mind you, I have nothing against the other kind, but given that I’m an introvert, I think the studio orgy is apt to be more interesting!) I’m essentially redundant at work by now, so I’ve been taking some of my free time and analyzing the different kinds of [...]

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A working design

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 19, 2013

I went up to see Sharon yesterday, bringing a stack of designs. We went through them, made some revisions, and eventually came up with this design to work with: It is, as they say, “an artist’s conception”, and since my sketching skills are rudimentary, I thought I’d elaborate. Structure: The bodice is pieces of handwoven [...]

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A choose-your-own-adventure workshop!

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 16, 2013

I’ve finally started planning my luxurious five-day weekend between jobs. What to do? Usually I go somewhere exotic between jobs, but five days isn’t really enough to go to Peru (etc.). I was thinking about finding an interesting weaving class somewhere that I could fly to, that just happened to be over Memorial Day weekend [...]

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More stars

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 15, 2013

I got up yesterday morning and tie-dyed three more stars. One came out with nasty fire-spotting – some of the dye didn’t dissolve completely, resulting in dark blobs and speckles where the concentrated dye sludge touched the shirt. However, two came out beautifully, one spectacularly so: Of course the rainbow on cobalt blue shirt is [...]

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