Category: Ikat/Kasuri
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Exhibition weave
Combining woven cloth and portraiture drawing is a new direction that is making me turn up for work every day!
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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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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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Buttony, wavy, ribby and wide weaves
Yet another magical workshop came to a close too quickly over the weekend. Several of the participants were Sturtees and returnees. Daisy came to work on a special buttony weave which incorporated her mother’s buttons in a bed runner. Rather than stitch them onto the two metre plus cloth after weaving it, we decided to have…
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Kasuri preservation
How exciting is this. Cotton plants welcoming visitors to a cotton Kasuri weaving studio. This studio is in Okayama prefecture which seemed to reveal more cultural and textile riches as we journeyed into it. Reaching it after a short walk through the narrow streets of the town we come to a place which signals ‘textile’ with…
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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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Magical weaving
We weavers can spend alot of time getting threads to behave. Not to let them run away, tangle or stretch out of tension. We tame them, or try to, so we can create with them. We want them to do things that they are sometimes reluctant to. Ikat (Kasuri) weaving has the same objective and this little…
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Kasuri practice
After returning from Kawashima textile school I had to put what I had learnt into practice. Ways of working in my own studio needed to be integrated and combined into my newly learnt ways and I think it will take me a few pieces to fully implement this. My loom and tools are different and…
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Kasuri Heaven
Kasuri heaven, that’s what it is. The Kawashima Textile school was everything and more in providing the Kasuri experience I needed. Although the origins of *Kasuri in Japan are debated and are sometimes said to be from Indonesia and South East Asia the time and skill committed to kasuri in Japan creating Kimono and other…