not a catchy title or 'ill get spammed by the baddies.

the best love scene ever filmed.

have a great spring is coming weekend.



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the magic of slow

my kakishibu. this has been a long project. it started  with a friend giving me some kilos of green kaki which i processed and aged.just to give you an idea this started in 2007 so i think it  does merit the title of slow magic.
the kakishibu liquor that had been aging since 2007 saw part of its day of glory yesterday. i took about a pint of it and slowly reduced like  when you make cooking reductions. to that concentrate i added hot water and simmered it. all in all i got a relatively dense, dark liquid. i had heard it stank like the dickens, but mine doesn't. perhaps i've done something wrong along the way although i'm not complaining about the lack of odor (^_^)

funny how when i was young i just wanted to live and experience things, the faster the better. now i am in a situation where i don't care if it takes time, except of course the minutiae like waiting in line, and doing paperwork, i'm sort of distilling those  accumulated experiences relishing and enjoying them.

this is a combined project, the weaving, the fulling of the wool scarf and dyeing with akane(madder) the preparation and fermenting of the kakishibu, the shibori tieing and finally the challenge of making it work on wool.apparently it is not successful on wool.

we shall see how it all wraps up.

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aizome third dip

this is gathering color depth and i'm pleased. the vat is almost spent i need time to start a fresh one, actually replenish because i have some leftover stock solution. making a small vat in a transparent plastic vessel has given me a lot of information that otherwise i would not have had. the challenge now is finding a bigger transparent plastic vessel.

 and  while on  the information thread there are some things that no one except michelle wipplinger tells you. for example that if your vat is mustard yellow it means too much reducing agent, which will strip your color away. to combat, and here's the golden nugget, you should add some air to the vat and let it become green yellow, the good color for dyeing.

now, isn't that  really sharing knowledge?

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