loom controlled shibori

Here's take one finished. Aiming at getting mokume (woodgrain) shibori with those zig zags. The stamped red motifs will not dye, so they will act as extra visual texture.

Here's the second one in a diamond pattern. i stamped the warp with Pebeo soie paints in a square grid pattern. The weft is a washed denim blue silk and i'm thinking of discharging some parts and then dyeing. The warp is this silk, beautiful doupioni to look at, difficult to work with as it is fuzzy.

Loom controlled shibori offers an enormousist of possibilities. One can:

• weave in white and then dye
• weave with a colored warp and then dye
• weave with a white warp and a colored weft and then dye
• weave and discharge and then dye
• stamp with paints weave and dye
• stamp with fiber reactive dyes weave and dye
• stamp with fiber reactive dyes, discharge, weave and dye

and lots of other combinations.

As the weavings im working on are just 20 x 20 centimeters i am aiming at using this project as my February TIF hence the printed square grid. Squares are flattened boxes aren't they? :)
The caveat is that when weaving i use that time to do some hard thinking-thinking without obligation- and i would also like to work on a dimensional piece for the challenge.
Yet here i am blogging. Better get back to the loom or March will get me in front of the computer.

neki desu

mail today

Last Thursday i got my books from Amazon, and look what i got in the mail today!
I traded ATC with Susan Lenz of Cyber Fiber Exhibit. Check out the ACTs for trade here gorgeous works!

Moving on to other matters my loom controlled shibori is progressing. I finished the first one and was anxious to cut it off the loom and start dyeing, but the warp isn't very long and i would be wasting precious silk. Judiciously i've postponed the cutting off until i finish all the warp. A feat when i'm so geared.

neki desu

going home

After a long hiatus i'm back to the loom, my take on slow cloth.
It is always a source of amazement and joy to discover that i am at my best while weaving.
The past year has been one of little loom work and a lot of exploration of new techniques, and that entails some risks. Like dilution and delusion.
The Saran wrap came in the shape of thisbook that will enable me to weave it all together in one piece. i'm so excited that you will have to pardon the pun :)

Basically what one does is weave adding a supplemental thread that then is gathered tight and the cloth is dyed creatig shibori patterns.
From then one is on one's own and can add or subtract as will. Printing, stamping discharging, overprinting, foiling...
As i see it the beauty is that one is creating the cloth that will be acted on.
This looks like a series.

neki desu