Category: Dyeing
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Dye dye
Dye dye. Love the colours, love the yarn. Dyeing and painting yarn brings such happiness into a home and studio. Yarn, being a soft, quiet and malleable media sometimes needs to push itself into the forefront with colour. I’m inspired by lots of colour like this although I’ve tried to change to muted softs or dark limited ranges. But…
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Warp painting Australian landscapes
Painting a warp is much more than a mere ‘underpainting” or scaffolding for a cloth. As it becomes entwined in the weave, it forms the ground and emotion of the textile. It’s an opportunity to express a connection or meaning such as the dyes used in this image. Teaching a private warp painting workshop last week allowed me…
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Subtly ablaze
I just toned down my ‘Summer ablaze reds‘ weave with overdye. The original silk weave (see first photo) with the handpainted warp was really beautiful but I wanted a more cohesively toned cloth. My first option is always to overdye. With overdyeing it’s important to know how another colour will affect the existing colours in the cloth …in other…
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Summer Ablaze with REds
My next warp is all reds. Silk yarn, silk ribbon and eyelash cotton warp, handpainted in three different tones of red and orange. It is an all ablaze start to my summer weaves. For the weft I’m tinkering with silk straw from Alchemy and kasuri dyed black/grey tussah silk from Avril. I’m just getting on and weaving…
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Paper yarn dyes
I seem to be totally absorbed with paper yarn at the moment and I’m not sure why. There is something about it’s crisp character that is a break from the soft wools and silks I’ve been using. I painted these skeins of wide paper yarn and they turned out so well. Initally I was reluctant…
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Seaweed Alchemy at Old Bar
India Flint’s visit to our region has left quite a few people on the boil with ideas and pure exhilaration. Her workshop at the Manning Regional Art Gallery looked inspirational with pots cooking and plants being arranged and discussed for effect and colour surprises. Unfortunately I was unable to attend the workshop but as India…
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Natural Alchemy
Today I’ve been immersing myself in the natural. Gathering some bark, leaves and flowers in the dark from my garden to dye a luscious silk package. This was an exciting opportunity to learn a little about India Flint’s dye and print achemy on cloth and yarn. As the perfect guest she let me cook up the ingredients and you…
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Warp abrash with echo weave via the Warping Wheel
Struggling with a dilemma….well probably one that others have solved first. But when you are thinking of how to solve problems yourself it feels like you’re the first. Like an adventure without leaving the house.My problem is all that white yarn in my stashed supplies. It’s so difficult to get the range of colours that seem so…
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In the Process: Web & DyeBooks
I’m in the process of changing my web furniture around so you may ‘trip’ over some things at the moment! Hopefully it will all look better soon. There has been a great dye workshop at the Online Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers which has inspired me to revisit my dyebooks. I use fibre reactive…