most woes are over

 yesterday, spoonflower and the possibility of printing my designs to make sewing fabric .

today i found savon de marseille in my organic supermarket. i also found the carbon tracing paper for tracing marks on fabric here. it is called transdoodle in the quilting world and...drum roll.. it is reusable!

although somewhat more expensive than what i got, in the long run it will be less onerous because of the reusability- just made up a word:)

finished dyeing this woven silk sample

dyed with euca leaves.

almost finishing the weaving.

working on these.

neki desu

DUH, DUH and duh

here was i moaning about not finding suitable textiles and i have megazzillion designs in colourlovers that i can print via spoonflower!



neki desu

 

the hand

interesting reflections by richard sennet in the craftsman's chapter on the hand.

" with greater brain capacity our human ancestors learned how to  hold things in their hands,

to think about what they held, and eventually to shape the things they held;

man apes could make tools, humans make culture"

 he furthers on examining the hand movements of gripping touching and prehension and their roles in developing technique.the chapter is full of fascinating insights.


neki desu