more strata

Hope you're not bored with the series because there are 5 or six more.

This is one of my faves.Organza on commercial felt, the felt is very black and dense, thus creating a nice contrast with the organza.There's some hand stitching and machine stitching on them. The dialog between the hand and machine stitching is subtle, but visually interesting.

Moving on to some appealing finds. One to whet your appetite for color and pattern after so much black. :-)
From India, where else, Print color pattern
And one for laughs, in a world where all creators are perfect and they never f**up here's Craft Fail
Refreshing indeed!

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full circle

Today is going to be fiendishly hot so i don't know how much i'll be able to dye.
More interesting things about ai i've found when doing some cross reading. Pardon my being so emphatic, but there are some people who have reading comprehension problems and this is meant for helping them. Found an excellent article here on indigo in Mali. As the material i'm using comes from there i could extrapolate one ot two things. Are the extrapolations correct? Will have to test them.

i also resurrected one of my first dye books an erudite treatise by Lenor Larsen called The Dyers Art , a socio-anthropological cross cultural study of dyeing and patterning methods. Not a how to, but incredibly valuable information is found in it.
And to close the circle the photo is a beautiful rough cotton textile from Mali.i
have my doubts whether it was dyed with natural indigo. But beauty is beauty nonetheless.

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the importance of peace and quiet

Spent the weekend with friends at their house in the country. Simply amazing what the sounds of silence can do.Yesterday i was all over as my mental energy levels were super high.

This weaving progressed into completion and i'm actually quite pleased the way it came out.It's a tad busy, but abstract busy if that makes sense.This series are being a very enjoyable weave.
And on top of this the dyeing is going well too.Even if it's too hot outside.And it's just July.

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