Fibre art workshops

 

Gradually we're picking up and back to track.  Fibre arts workshops were held recently.   A botanical printing workshop for the family groups was held in 甲乙丙工作坊. As it's an introduction and for the fun of parents and kids participation I just taught the basic mordant printing on silk with those plants from wild and florist also kitchen waste, the onion skins.  In three hours laying, boiling and chatting they opened the bundles with unexpected outcome.  The photos speak themselves........

 

 

Onion skins, ferns, vegetable flowers.......

assorted eucalyptus...... with participants' own ideas of placing.

Leaves both sides will have different outcome.  See how the difference.

 

 Opening bundles is always excited.

Shades of orange and yellow from the same plant is interesting. It's effect of mordant.

 

Assorted eucalyptus from red, orange to brown.

 

The roaming cats.

Eucalyptus and rose leaves

 

The families are happy with their works.

 

The other day I have a family with children coming in my place for wool felt making and eco printing experiments.

It's their first time encountered wool felt.  They found it interesting with wool wrapped soap and wool can "stick" together.

  

They made the felted soaps and coasters.

Other than wool felting they made a small piece of eco printing.

Kids are imaginative.  Their works are nice.

In an afternoon of chatting, eating and playing with my cat Mogi, they made the colorful creation.

 

 Mogi is so adorable and quite welcome the kids even let them cuddling.

If you find the botanical printing interesting and like to know the making. My on line shop ETSY TerLing Creations  has instant download tutorial, basic one and enhanced one.

Thanks for stopping by and have a nice day.

 

"Dressed" the plant, walked in the bush 穿著叢林中

   

The wool flannel I printed last is now turned into a vest - reversible with 2-sided prints. External is wool flannel with botanical imprints while the lining is blended cotton/silk prints and dyed in cochineal which I'm not quite pleased with. 

一次又一次的植物印染實驗, 做出來的布料就是我的成衣製作.

雨後一天穿著.......走進在我山後叢林中, 發拙可有什麼葉子試驗?

 

It's a Friday I used to do hiking but it's raining and gloomy thus skipped it. Instead "dressed in plants" I walked in the abundant house with bush behind my area. 

I've a passion of plants, whenever I walked in the bush I would think if those plants give prints?  That's why I can't help stop doing experiments.  Have done so so many swatches! The only way is to make them into wearable. 

           Eucalyptus Cinerea is always my fav for bold prints.

 The outsider piece I don't have large enough wool fabric thus connected both sides with silk prints

 

The lining is fine with one whole piece

 

 

The upper part is Loropetalum Chinense (purple) and  Limonium

  

 I'm not by profession a fashion designer. That's the simple vest I can do with the template measured and given by Tatiana Sheverda in her workshop.  

 

If it's not tuned into garment, may be leave it as a hanging, anyway.

Art journal making from travel memory 旅人的手作小本子

 

Recently I'm hooked in making art journals.  I printed the papers,  made the cover and bound the booklet.  This one with prints on cotton & wool felt cover just made.

這數位年代還有多少人愛手寫小本 ? 可能捨不得書寫那由始至終的手作， 這獨特的植物移印染捧在手中我有一些莫名的喜愛。

 

 I took from the stash a piece of cotton prints which was first dyed in Portugal workshop years ago with a little rust and the dark iron marks.  It sat aside for long. Last year I took it out to have the castor oil leaf prints over the cotton fabric.  The leaves were from Israel workshop last year.  I bought back a few pieces of that leaf as I know it's better to do with local leaves. 

 

I hand sewed the cotton prints on the wool felt piece with eucalyptus prints.  Make it the journal cover. 

 

The cotton part I stitched some French knots.  Really like sorts of stitches which give a special touch. 

 

 When I was making the stitches I imagine it's a seaside of Tel Aviv where I strolled along for a few days from dawn to dusk. 

 

The inside cover is printed with eucalyptus, the upper and down sides are soaked in the indigo dye, not a vat but only very pale solution.

 

Then I made the coptic binding of 7 signatures, each with 7 blank pages and some prints.  That makes a booklet of more than 100 writing pages.

 

Completed with the first page also with castol oil leaf.......

 

A few pages with local leaf prints......

 

A few prints on silk fabric and dried leaves.

 

The French knots and the rust marks

 

The castor oil leaf looks like "Sea Star"

 

A "Black" tone art journal with my handmade ceramic button closure

 

Simply the art journal.......

 

I made with the good memory of my last stay in Tel Aviv with this leaf

 

The day I took it to the beach near my studio....... I imagine it's the Mediterranean Sea in between Tel Aviv  and Cyprus.......

 

Back to reality, it's the South China Sea in Hong Kong

  

Listening to the wave, listening to the echo of sea...... 

Imagination to come true......