First experiments in surface design

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 25, 2013

Things have been going more slowly than I’d like, but I’ve finished my first set of experiments in surface design. Here they are! The first piece is an exercise out of Making Your Mark by Claire Benn and Leslie Morgan. I laid down a thick line of different colors, and used a credit card to [...]

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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 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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Simulation of cross-dyed double katazome

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 24, 2012

I did some Photoshop simulations of cross-dyed double katazome – my shorthand for “katazome on the warp and on the finished fabric”.  This simulates what happens when you do katazome on a cellulose warp, weave the fabric with a protein-fiber weft, and then do katazome on the finished fabric using acid dyes (which will dye [...]

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