march wall
Small weaving on the frame, and guilty pleasures: pink and white feathery things, all made from donated handspun. I have a vague plan for something more elaborated for both.
Categorie: wool
felt hanging and indigo
In the past I have dyed with my Japanese indigo plants when they were fresh. I have had good results with it, but I am not always ready to dye when the plants are ready. As an experiment I extracted the indigopigment from the fresh plants to dye with it …
paper and wool
a small thing with sheets of irisleaf- and hemppaper felted with wool and then written on with thread.
small weaving
Prepared wool for a small project. Left is schoonebeeker wool twined with linen, right is madder dyed wool, carded to spin. I wanted to capture the thick schoonebeeker with the madder dyed yarns and planned to add one or two plain squares. But I ended up with irregular shapes formed …
natural dyeing
wool that was dyed with plants last year, finally rinsed and hanging to dry. yellows from birch, weld+onion, tagetes. orange and pinks from dahlia, willow, avocado, hawthorn blue from indigo, from my attempt for a fermentation vat greens from birch+copperwater, indigo+weld, sunflower+ironwater grey from gipsyworth+iron Wool is Cikta, Romney and …