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Connections – Guest Post

Kerryn Coombe first contacted me in 2006 with a desire to learn about silk thangkas. At that time, she went by a different name and was immersed in social work…

Leslie Rinchen-WongmoDecember 18

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Stitching a Healing Buddha, Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo’s Latest Fabric Thangka Takes Shape

Stitch by stitch, Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo is building a sacred applique thangka of the Medicine Buddha from bits of satin and brocades. The deep blue figure is finally complete and clothed…

Leslie Rinchen-WongmoOctober 16

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Tibetan Artist’s Giant Thangka is Expression of Enormous Commitment to Tradition

Giant thangkas are usually stitched from silk and brocade, but Tashi Dhargyal is painting an enormous image of the Buddha as a way to educate the public about the precious…

Leslie Rinchen-WongmoSeptember 18

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A New Way to Connect to Silk Thangkas

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Leslie Rinchen-WongmoMay 13

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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…

Leslie Rinchen-WongmoOctober 26

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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…

Leslie Rinchen-WongmoAugust 1

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Connections – Guest Post

Stitching a Healing Buddha, Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo’s Latest Fabric Thangka Takes Shape

Tibetan Artist’s Giant Thangka is Expression of Enormous Commitment to Tradition

A New Way to Connect to Silk Thangkas

Dyeing Silk Satin — an overdue update

All Threads are not Alike

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Textile Techniques

Connections – Guest Post

Stitching a Healing Buddha, Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo’s Latest Fabric Thangka Takes Shape

Tibetan Artist’s Giant Thangka is Expression of Enormous Commitment to Tradition

A New Way to Connect to Silk Thangkas

Dyeing Silk Satin — an overdue update

All Threads are not Alike

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