Textile Techniques
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A New Way to Connect to Silk Thangkas
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Dyeing Silk Satin — an overdue update
A wonderful course with Ruth Issett at Creative Days Ticino last week has made possible a long-overdue update on my satin dyeing experiments. It seems that my difficulties were not related so much to the dyeing chemicals and processes, but to the unusual qualities of the particular silk satin I was using! Too bad it ...
All Threads are not Alike
Writing on the textile side of life today. Yesterday, I went out to get some materials to make the quilted borders for my latest project, a deity-less thangka commissioned by Sharon Gould in Milan (see photo above). For those of you who may remember, this is where the clouds I posted on Facebook a few ...
Update on the dyeing experiments
Oh, this blogging business is complicated. Once you decide to start and think that you’re just going to have to be disciplined and creative about generating posts, you discover that there are endless things to learn about search engine placement and that all the research you did when you designed your website YEARS ago is ...
Puckered satin!
It just won’t work! The acid-dyed satin is as ripply as the Procion/soda ash stuff! It seems that the soaking itself breaks something down in the weave. The cloth even seems almost stretchy. And no matter how much and how hot I iron it, I can’t make it smooth and shiny again! I guess it’s ...
