Wednesday, May 11, 2011
rich results
If I do say so myself, this cloth came out pretty spectacular just wish I knew it's provenance. If anyone has any notions please let me know.
(that's the ever-present critic's paw in the upper right corner)
You can go here and here for some closer looks. This one looks like gila monster skin.
I'll be sharing these and other new pieces in the store over the weekend. Smaller pieces, more variety...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
from sublime to spectacular
Remember this score? Combing through the acres of cloth I finally found a tag. Read it, carefully clipped it off and tossed it "somewhere safe" for future reference. Where that might be I have no clue at the moment.
All I can recall is "cotton" and the name of a company in NJ.
I cut this one up into rectangular pieces and spent yesterday morning using soy wax, dye powder, sugar and salt on ten or so pieces. I lost count.
Wish I knew more about thread count. The hand on this cloth is soft like sateen. The pattern you can see is part of the weave, not embossed, embroidered or printed on. When wet it feels almost like chamois. And it took the wax and the dye so aggressively that I had to boil everything to really get it clean and ready to iron. When was the last time you looked forward to ironing anything?
....and after.
Well worth the trouble and mess!
All I can recall is "cotton" and the name of a company in NJ.
I cut this one up into rectangular pieces and spent yesterday morning using soy wax, dye powder, sugar and salt on ten or so pieces. I lost count.
Wish I knew more about thread count. The hand on this cloth is soft like sateen. The pattern you can see is part of the weave, not embossed, embroidered or printed on. When wet it feels almost like chamois. And it took the wax and the dye so aggressively that I had to boil everything to really get it clean and ready to iron. When was the last time you looked forward to ironing anything?
before |
....and after.
Well worth the trouble and mess!
Monday, May 09, 2011
until tomorrow
It will be tomorrow before I can see what will become of these. Spent the morning with soy wax, paint and dyes. Now, I'm off to the whine mine to see what happened over the weekend.
Sunday, May 08, 2011
Saturday, May 07, 2011
Eye candy from the burning deck
It was blazing out on the deck today so I had to work these pieces in stages dashing into the darkened, cool living room to regain my vision. At one point I thought I was working in black and white.
Later, when the game is on, I'll iron all these to heat set the metallic textile paints.
what fun. more later and much of the day tomorrow...
Later, when the game is on, I'll iron all these to heat set the metallic textile paints.
what fun. more later and much of the day tomorrow...
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