Shanghai purses & textures workshop (3) 上海教學

 Other than botanical imprints skills I taught in Shanghai Jinze Arts Centre , I also taught the various techniques of wool felt making.  We used the swatches of eco prints students made to do wool felt embellishments and textures design. What else was the making of wool felt purses with straps done in one go and then eco-printed.
上海 金澤工藝社第二環節做羊毛氈化工藝,  製作手袋及立體肌理技巧. 兩天的學習, 學生們完成多款製作, 喜孜孜的來個大合照, 套用他們的術語 "完滿收官"!.

 These are the techniques of  eco printed textures, strap and flap in the workshop.

 Samples of my purses for their inspiration

 Most students like the "coblestone texture" a lot, so I taught them the making of such.

 Enclosed resist is used for the purse making

 I brought along various tools.  This one is boomerang souvenir from Australia, quite good for the corner shaping.

 This mini wedge from Heartfelt Silk is very good for edges and inside shaping and rubbing.

 A purse with one flap and the one as inner pocket, simply lovely of natural wool color.

The other one with eco-prints to make it bright.

 This one with a few euc silver dollar on the flap.

 This one is nuno felted with swatch prints of plum and euc.  A soft tone clutch.

 A bright purse with euc and little green from plum leaf.

 A purse is made with all Finn wool which is super easy felted

 A hat, a tea cosy or whatever you name it. Eileen made it with Finn wool and the little dots with her lovely cats hair.

 Another piece with strips tore from fabric and felted as decoration.  Intended to make it a purse but now may be a vessel.

 I demo the  making of "coblestone textures" with the natural printed swatch. Bright with alum mordanted euc, onion skins.

QinNan made the textures with her eco printed swatch with iron mordant.  So the dark shades.

 Students' 3D textures made

 A few different purses students made

 The whole set of eco print and wool felt - hair band, neck tie, nuno felt outfit, wool felt purse with and  iPad case with the fish mark.  

My students with their creations.........  See their happy smiles.....

  The lecturer and his student  both from Beijing design institute

Thank you my students and the team from Hong Kong, Taiwan and China made my week fabulous in Shanghai Jinze Arts Centre

Next post will be a wrap up of the workshop there.  

Shanghai workshop (1) 上海工作坊

 

Just back from a week teaching in Shanghai, China where internet is limit or banned.    During my days in the rural outskirt in the 1300 years old ancient water town Jinze, I have no facebook, no blogging and no internet.    Arts or crafts of botanical imprints and wool felt are quite new there.  Opportunities emerging for artisans beyond China.  I was brought there by Hong Kong textile expert Edith Cheung.  This was my second  teaching in Jinze Arts Centre in five months. It's encouraging that my students from far provinces  just flown in to learn the comtempory skills.

We immersed ourselves in the tranquil campus......

獲香港紡織專家張西美邀請, 在上海市郊古樸水鄉金澤鎮的連串植物移印染及羊毛氈教學活動剛剛完滿結束, 一星期在沒有互聯網資訊如詩畫意境進行, 第一天到埗與聰敏助手開始實驗. 設備齊全的金澤工藝社為多位來自不同省份學生準備就緒......

The arts centre surrounding is poetry

Will post more pictures of the town in a separate post. 

Here's mainly about the workshop in the interior of the campus.

   On the first day arrival, my assistant,  a UK
intern helped collecting the local leaves for my experiments to make sure which plants work for the prints.  Walking in the area with typical traditional buildings was so pleasant.

 

We used only the simple and eco materials.  We made iron solution in the hot sun of 37 degree just in 2 hours.  We made the reusable paper cores for bundling and local leaves collected in the  campus.  The only leaves bought from florist are eucalyptus silver dollar which are planted in China also.

 

I tested the prints in different ways with all sorts of leaves picked, the peach, mulberry, melon, maple, cotinus, rose, onion and a few unknown. The outcomes are impressive.  They're marked for students'  reference in the next session.

The pictures speak themselves............

 

 

The summer leaves are quite well for the prints

My sample prints display in the studio for student's reference

Final touch of the wearable  of all natural prints

My assistants prepared materials packing for the workshops.

 

Everything well set and ready for the workshops.

Mext will be students' prints, make it into wearable and wool felt purses with textures.....

Will be fabulous ....... stay tuned.