Category: Woven Shibori
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Make a Huipil inspired Maya top
I think I take my sewing skills for granted. And I image everyone else has the same skills. But increasingly, because we haven’t had to make our own clothes, we don’t need those skills. I understand that others have more valuable skills to earn money. But to make your own clothes…that’s a freedom. To weave…
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Warp wise shibori
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Workshop buzz
This weekend saw the end of another fantastic workshop in the studio here at Old Bar. It’s always a bit lonely going back to my empty studio after such a flurry of creative energy…but then I have all that yarn to get weaving with! Deb is the co-chair for the Alice Springs Beanie Festival. A…
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Studio time
I’ve had lots of studio visitors over the last couple of months. Aside from planned weekend workshops I’m experimenting with the viability of day sessions now and again. Individual tuition is always available as many people want to know more about how to warp and use the loom for their own work. But it’s always nice…
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Completing
This week has been a time for completing. Then starting again. It’s always very satisfying completing a textile. Finishing it then pressing and processing it for use or new ownership. I get so close to all of my textiles in weaving and seeing every little thread that I find it next to impossible to have…
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Woven Saori Shibori
I’m exploring Saori Woven Shibori experiments more and coming up with loads of deviations achievable with a simple two shaft plain weave loom. After this weekend workshop ,where two weavers went for it on a tencel warp I set up, I was amazed at just how fluid the process is. Gail’s work attracts orders whenever she…
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Saori Woven Shibori Weekend
That’s a mouthful – “Saori Woven Shibori” But that’s what much of last weekend’s Saori cloth turned out to be. The full two day workshop was small but very inspiring and productive. It allowed more experimentation and the dyebath helped us along. As two of the participants were already Saori weavers and had done previous workshops…
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Woven Shibori – Absolutely Georgeous!
It’s not all the time that an experimental textile is so pleasing, but this was. Undoing all of the knots after dyeing produced the most beautiful fluid designs on my woven shibori. I used a combination of fibre reactive dyes which I think simulates indigo to achieve the effect. It certainly made my complaint of…
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Woven Shibori – the beginnings
I couldn’t wait to start my sampling of woven shibori after reading Catharine Ellis’s book of the same name. I enjoyed weaving the cloth and it came along quite quickly and enjoyably although there are 2 shuttles in use. The cloth is tencel and the shibori threads are mercerised cotton. This is a strong, smooth…