beni days and discoveries

as ever those ties, color blankets and whatnots perform a lot more satisfacory colorwise than the actual pieces.

three or four days of continuous dyeing with an escape to candás for a sardine feast now that it's the season. i have to hone my observation skills because there are things that happen and no one adresses them.

for example that glorious shocking pink of the first 15 minutes turns into a coral if left overnight. 

even on cotton which in theory does not absorb the flavonoids. need to double check to see if it has to do w. the mordants as i alum-tannin-alum mordanted the cottons.

not that the color is not handsome,but my ikigai is red and shockindg pink

the silk came out coral, actually more of a fluo orange.not bad ,but not within the parameters.

neki desu

 

the seventh day of the seventh month

 happy tanabata      🎋🎋🎋🎋🎐

have a good weekend

neki desu

 

the summer of the res

re read, revisit ,re study re try and everything else in between. this is no laughing matter. after so many years of using my to go weaving program i have discocered many other functions to work with paralell threadings and networks.

i even went back to alice schlein's seminal network book and re read it discovering many ideas that i had just glossed over. i am re studying it in depth this time. 

as with dyeing all these years i had gotten results but the depth of it had escaped me. i am at a curious point now  revisiting what i thought i knew .

on the other hand not related but in a way it is i have started looking up words in the dictionary directly from japanese. at first i'd look up a word in english to get the japanese equivalent. now after countless dramas i hear an unfamiliar word,stop the streaming and look it up. it's a great reinforcement and after hearing it a couple of times it's already set in the  hardisk of my  mind.

i am planning my fall weaves with all those madder and benibana dyed silks. the anticipation is building up. novel ways of using my weaving program promise summer fun.

neki desu