Saturday 18 June 2016

Natural Dyeing Follow Up

Here are the results made with the fabrics dyed with avocado, really liking the combination together, more to follow .......



Wednesday 15 June 2016

Encaustic Wax

I have just finished a 4 week course with Joanna Kidney at her Outpost Studios in Bray experimenting with encaustic wax.  Lots more to learn and more experimenting with how to work it into my fabric pieces but it was very enjoyable.  Joanna has great patience and was very informative and giving - definitely a worthwhile workshop.  Here are some images :




and this one is avocado and saffron dyed linen with wax - pojagi style - probably my favourite:  







Natural Dyeing

I have been dyeing with avocado, saffron, turmeric, tea and coffee over the past weeks and getting some wonderful results with different fabrics, here are a some of them :