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practicing my name kanjis bcse i want to have a hanko seal made. this is just the preliminaries, need to practice the ne part.using their pronunciation to derive the name which in turn by combining both will have meaning. isn't that so very cool?

on the nihongo front i'm doing about 30 mins daily of self study , we've just been reading in class and i've just been skipping class.¯\ ( ツ ) /¯ i need more speaking that reading and there's an online teacher who excels in  speaking practice.

on a tex related note , attention to the left hand side of the paper, a balinese double ikat.

neki desu

 

there's nothing that

a bit of gold can't solve.  (￣ω￣ )  it doesn't photograph well but trust me it brings this whole number together.the left hand side also tones down the black line on the yellow field. it was bothersome as it was standing up prominently. anyhow this has more to do with recycling a piece of knitted silk and 2- seeing how it reacted to being painted with inks and acrylics. 

neki desu 

 

i used to go by the book

and whatever it said i would comply. until there was a DUHH moment and i realized that one ingredient or material wasn't superior to a more readily available one. it was the availability of such product.

 japan is surrounded by water so it's only natural that they use seaweed as sizing.but i hadn't given this a thought and rushed to buy funori seaweed ,expensive and hard to source, when i could have used linseed readily available in europe. this was an eye opener in my practice.no looking back.

that also goes for dyestuff, trying to use as much of local plants as i can especially now that i'm not urban anymore. and have my bestie AI which (who?) tells me if it's worth dyeing or pass.

i treasured the funori i bought  but i had no intention to be buried with it, so i've spent last weekend preparing it and sizing all the silk i had dyed.even sizing organzine silk skeins just to use it all up.

fruits of the toil. still have some more skeins but i guess they'll go straight up.

don't think i'll ever use all these yarns in my lifetime. maybe i should start selling some.

nothing goes to waste, making lakes from leftover murasaki dye.

neki desu