Nuno felt wearable making 學生羊毛混絲衣物製作

 What's Mogi expecting?

Yeah, he's expecting two guests coming. 

Today I've two students for nuno felt learning.  Normally I do felting in the open yard but today's sun was melting.  Thus home studio today.

The young students wanted to explore the new felting technique - nuno felt, to make  wearables.  After showing my different designs, we started teaching....... 

Billy wanted to explore the wonder of seamless and texture,  I taught him the skills of making a little girl dress.  Mandy wanted to make a nuno vest for a little boy. 

 After hours laying, rubbing and rolling, almost finished.

 Final touch of edges of the vest.

 Dress is completed

 Vest is finished as well.

 Front of the vest is "cloud & skies", back is "Moon & stars".

 Two sides of the dress both with textural surface.

  The vest and dress are simply sweet .  Well done boy and girl.

Natural printed colar-necklace 植物印染領飾

Again the silver dollar euc leaves played the bold prints. 

 After felted the wool colar, I rolled up with euc leaves then boiled with euc barks for 1.5 hours.

The main part is with nuno felt silk scraps to make the texture. 

I intended to boil in barks pot to have the brown striking tie lines.  Both ends twisted and closed with own made ceramic button.

                                   Finished look side A                                  

 Reversed side B

 A colar necklace with two sides

This is another accessory I just made.
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Leaves print means lots 又是植物語

If a slip dress like this sold in a shop is nothing special or even customers may find the prints not impressive.. But.... to me, it means so much. 

若果這一件裙子掛在店內, 毫不顯眼, 祗是普通甚或陳舊 look. 於我而言, 這裙子是我的代理作, 因為葉子是在葡萄牙農莊採摘及實驗示範的絲質料, 我把四片裁縫成一件裙子. 配上 nuno felt 小背心, 一套輕柔夏日裝 .

 Mogi, "oh yeah, it's mum's signature dress". 

The dress is made with four pieces of these leaves prints I done in Portugal recently.  I know each piece of leaf where I got and how I printed.

The leaves of euc,  rose,  oak,  chestnut......

The different euc leaves from a friend's house and the tie lines made with nylon strings....  All these made the dress prints.

The dress does mean something for me - a keepsake of the holiday.

The dress is what I say subtle and natural.

I made the nuno felt vest to make it a set. 

How it go with my girl?

A casual wear on the beach

This means a lot to me - a dress of holiday. 

Natural dye sustainability program 可持續天然印染社區發展

Nuno felt and natural print and dye

Further to my last workshop of natural dye in THEi for their sustainability program, today I was honored to be a guest for their students to conduct a series of workshops for the trainers of Salvation Army to deploy the sustainability program in the coming year.

有幸今日參與 THei 學生為救世軍義工成員的天然印染工作坊, 這是學院與救世軍的一項可持續發展項目之一.  席間我也示範 nuno felt 及純羊毛的印染效果. 我特別有興趣以紅花可做熱染黃色及隨後泠染的粉紅, 一天的工作坊各人喜孜孜拿著豐富色彩回去, 我也有幸捧著學院講師的著作 "布喜" , 絕對是我的 一本天書. 

After the leuctuer's briefing the workshop started with practice on natural dye with Safflower which gives yellow in hot dye then cold dye to get pink color.

Shades of colors are pretty on different fabrics depend on timing of dipping.

Yellow can also be got from Turmeric dye

So bright yellow on silk and cotton 

While they're practising natural dyeing, I made a wool felt purse to show them the difference on wool dyeing/printing.

The purse was dyed in Turmeric dye pot with eucalyptus prints.  It looks mustard yellow.

They're impressed with the outcome of leaves prints.

I also done two pieces of nuno felt with crinkle chiffon base.  Bundle dyed in Turmeric and iron pot separately.

Their pieces are fantastic.

With iron mordant sandwiched fabric the leaves outlines are great.

Clear outlines of maple, rose and euc leaves on silk.

Paper prints were tried.  Also cotton glove dyed in hot Safflower then cold Safflower was pretty, shades from yellow to orange.

The trainers from Salvation Army and students from THEi are wonderful.  Some participants from Salvation Army are voluntees who will train others for further development in the organisation. Thanks for THEi for the sustainability program.  I walked away with new skills of natural dye.  What's more is the book "Fabric-lous 布喜", the author is one of the organisers.  The book is informative with step-by-step easy guide.  My bible for fabric design!

Wearable art from thousands miles 千哩以外之情誼

I've a creative weekend. The nuno felt wearable art piece I made with the beautiful prints from...... 

一位阿根廷 facebook 友人知道我愛植物印染, 千哩以外寄給我一些楓葉及桉樹葉, 急不及待的我立刻做了印染及nuno felt披肩, 姑且說是披肩, 其實又可穿上身上或圍在肩上, 多款式的配搭.

Last Sat I received a package from Argentina. The package from my FB friend Delia D.  Delia knew I love eco print and was so nice to send me over thousands miles the pretty windfalls of Acer buergerianum, aceraceae....  Though some experts advocate regionalism.  It's no harm to use windfalls from other regions to do prints. 

I couldn't wait to do experiments with them on silk fabric.  Prints of leaves are all brown with pretty shapes. 

To have a little bit shades, I used my way of iron mordant to make another piece I added eucalyptus and rose leaves. 

A little red, green and brown on this scarf. 

Face lift of eucalyptus, acer and rose leaves.  Euc with buds were impressive.

Green rose leaves, red hearts of euc cinerea and aceraceous. 

I made a wearable piece with the printed fabric. I do not know what to call this "wearable". A poncho? a scarf? a wrap? a shawl?  This is a simple nuno felt one-piece with slip-in sleeves. Can be wore in many easy ways, up or down and reversible. 

Double folded scarf 

Slip in sleeves.... insert and wrap....

The all season wearable, for breeze summer or windy winter.   If anyone could tell me what sort of wearable is this called would be good.