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Category Archives: Dyeing
Hair to dye for the Mer’s.
Hair to dye for the Mer’s. After a long pause from felting to work on the Guild Library survey (why did no one tell me data analysis was so much fun?) with interruptions to torture incent unsuspecting flax plants, I … Continue reading
Decorating the cowl
As you recall I was dying some silk lap for my cowl. They turned out well. Silk always looks so raggy after dying. I think it’s the squeezing out of the excess water. They look a little better dry after … Continue reading
Posted in color, Design, Dyeing, Nuno Felting, Silk, Uncategorized
Tagged nuno felt cowl, silk lap
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Next Steps for My Cowl
With a few weeks until the Christmas markets, I finally got back to my cowl. This is as far as I had gotten before I had to put it aside. It took me forever to get the silk wrapped around … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Dyeing, Experiments, Holiday exchange, Nuno Felting, Silk, Uncategorized
Tagged nunofelt cowl, silk lap
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Bubble Texture
My best-laid plans have gone awry, so I am going to show you a short piece I did back in 2012. Texture seems to be a popular topic so this should fit right in. Although this is an older post … Continue reading
Posted in Dyeing, Experiments, Wet Felting
Tagged bubble felt, bubble texture, dyeing, experiments, Shibori, texture
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Sublimation printing with Dawn Dupree
This is a guest post by Kim Winter of Flextiles. A couple of weeks ago I went on a sublimation printing workshop with Dawn Dupree, a well-established textile printer based in south London near me. She specialises in multilayered collage, … Continue reading
Posted in Dyeing, Guest Artists, Surface Design, workshops
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A New Hat
I have been working on a new “pillbox” type of hat. I got this great lattice yarn and wanted to use to add some interest to the hat. I got this yarn at Value Village, a big chain second hand … Continue reading
Posted in Dyeing, Felted Hats, Nuno Felting, Uncategorized, Wet Felting
Tagged felt hat, latice yarn, pilbox hat, wet felting
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I’ve got rainbows on my mind
First of all, happy Thanksgiving to everyone reading this in the US! I hope you had a nice celebration. Today I’m sharing some rainbow-y fibre I created, plus a “throwback” item that I hope you’ll like. Being an indie dyer … Continue reading
Posted in Dyeing, felt art, Guest Writer, Knitting, Made From Felt, Needle Felting, sculptural felt, Wool
Tagged felted sculpture, hand dyeing, hat knitting, knitting, needle felting, rainbow, wool roving, wool top
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