Category: Dyeing
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Weaving with shaping
Experimental weaving to create a sense of shadow and stiffness in the fabric have recently taken me to interesting places.
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Painting colours with weave
Weaving a balanced plain weave cloth.
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Travelling by Making
You don’t have to leave home to travel when you have the textile love in you.
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Bengala Natural Mud Dyeing
I’ve been experimenting with the Bengala natural, sustainable mud dyes from Japan. These are used a lot by Saori studios around the world, such as Loop of the Loom. I now have a limited number of packs in stock. They are costly to import as Australia has tariffs on them but they are worth…
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Imagining Textiles – The Art of Dyeing
For many weavers dyeing yarn requires a big leap of faith. Starting out without copious dye recipe books and sample cards to refer to most of us just jump off the edge then gradually acquire knowledge for more precise decisions in colour. But it can be easy, fun and very successful from day one. Dyeing is…
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Thailand, Laos and the Textile Track – Dye
Natural dyeing in Laos is still very common. Although yarns are purchased from the markets with synthetic dyes, there is a still a demand for natural dyeing. The access to the natural environment, the dyer’s knowledge and the array of colours available with multiple overdyes is the most interesting I’ve seen so readily. We were…
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Ramping up my dye book
Dyeing is so relaxing and cathartic. It’s so easy and produces the most amazing colours normally not available anywhere. When the Online guild were running a Precision dye workshop with Margaret Coe this month I jumped at the impetus to update and re-work my dye book and learn even more about my dyes and their…
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Weft Kasuri
I love ikat (Indonesia) or kasuri (Japan) or the process of winding and dyeing areas of the warp and or weft to create patterns. One of the best and most approachable books on the topic I’ve encountered is Japanese Ikat Weaving: The Techniques of Kasuri I’m not sure how easy it is to obtain now…
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Still being a back to front girl
I’m happy to say that the colours are appearing again and my Toika loom is warped, threaded and tied up ready for an 8 shaft woven shibori affair. The warp is 13 metres long and I wonder if that will be too long for me on this loom at the moment but it is done.…