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Monday, September 18, 2017

partial to lilies




i buy them every friday at the market and they keep the house smelling heavenly.such a pleasure to have morning coffee with sunlight hitting the table and that scent.
 nevertheless their stamens stain  your clothes if you brush past them and it is difficult to get rid of such stain.
you see where i am going right?







on cotton

on a scrap of silk organza.
was too lazy to prepare soy milk, but it is essential.what i'll do is seal the color in some way after brushing off the stamens.
there is going to be stitching  too.


















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Friday, September 15, 2017

the poetry of threads






reiko sudo, arai junichi,chiaki maki, michiko uehara and all the textile stars of japan
have a great weekend,







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Thursday, September 14, 2017

devorè revisited



looks pretty unappealing oi? wire knitted  and linen knitted together in a technique called plating.
each yarn knits on one side so you have a *double knit *the technique presented some issues that i'm sure practice will sooth.also tested a thicker cotton yarn with the wire at the top.being thicker, the cotton covers the wire better.



linen and mono-filament, my latest best friend.






 the devorè part using fiber etch.

 the linen mono-filament needs more tweaking in terms of temperature.if hot enough to dissolve the linen it will melt the mono filament :(



wire presents no problem. however the frayed edges need some treatment to appease the architects surrounding me. or not. next will be aging the wire.

had tried devorè on some woven silk linen pieces time ago and on commercially woven silk linen fabric.
 all the knitting activity is because i'm waiting for more heddles to arrive.the thinner the yarn i use the shorter i am on heddles. and to think my dobby loom is just 70 ms wide.



on the life in general department started aqua gym this week.quite a workout!
and got great tickets for the opera.thrilled that in my new town one can enjoy opera without having to sell either the firstborn or the spouse or both.




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