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I’m doing a five-week workshop on shibori, and have finally gotten caught up to the current lesson, which is on stitched shibori. So far all I’ve done is mokume shibori, which is parallel lines of stitching. Why so much time on one technique? Because all woven shibori is variants on mokume shibori! So doing a [...]
This time I wove up a set of diamonds in various types of grid, combining it with a dye pattern of blocks: I’m not especially thrilled with the results of this experiment, as the diamonds really aren’t very visible in real life (the camera flash makes them stand out a LOT more than they do [...]
Citrus peels, that is. I woke up from a mad citrus-candying rampage today to realize that I have not one, not two, not three, but four kinds of citrus peels candying in small vats in my kitchen. And not just garden-variety citrus, but exotics like kaffir lime, Meyer lemon, yuzu, and grapefruit with rose geranium. [...]
I finished weaving, tying, and dyeing today. And wowza! It’s probably possible to make woven shibori ugly, but I haven’t managed it so far. (Well, except the one time when the dyes didn’t “take”, but that was a dyeing issue, not a design one!) Because I tried out six different patterns, and wanted to show [...]
Having gotten the urge to play with complex designs out of my system, I’m settling down for some serious experimentation with woven shibori. I’m testing what happens with square designs, diamond designs, and mixing plainweave with floats (on either side of the fabric). Here is the profile draft (showing only the ties) of what I [...]
