I have had a go at making ink with avocado. Inkmaking is much the same as making a dyebath for dyeing wool. I have the book Make ink by Jason Logan, and learned there are several ways to achieve a concentrated ¨dyebath” i.e. (almost) ink. I know from dyeing wol, …
On a short camping brake I took pen and paper with me in stead of wool and spindle or needles. I don´t know why, but before I come round to sit and spin in a tent it is always too dark. Hidden in the field between the tall grasses were …
At the exposition about David Hockney and van Gogh in the Van Goghmuseum, I was touched by a small drawing by Hockney of reed or grass. With a few lines he captured the essence of it, how they bend, move and how they relate to one another. I wanted to …
Some grasses that I literally picked around the corner. Printed on mulberry paper. It is surprising how tall they are when transferring them to paper. They look so much smaller on the spot next to the streets, the cars and the houses. grasses printed on two sheets of mulberry paper, …
Wallhanging called ¨under water¨. Papercut and collage with colored mulberry paper, joomchi, and felted with wool. The colores bleed and blend and the resulting colors are more interesting to me than the original colors. It is almost a monochrome now though I had put in the form of a jellyfish …
top spindle: naturally dyed drent wool, dyed with common reed bottom spindle: natural grey scottish I ´ve made a small shu bao from scratch: crumpled brown paper and a decorated paper bag, an end of paper chord and a button for closure. And glue. It has 15 compartments like the …
local big heathsheep, spindle spun. This is the second half of the indigo dyed wool from this post. The first half was used for a felt wallhanging. It was quite a journey from growing the japanese indigo plants from the seed, harvesting and extracting the pigment from them. Washing the …
This piece shows the natural pigments that I extracted last year, mostly from plants that were in my surrounding and garden. Birchleafs and willow, dahlia, hawthorn and tagetes and indigo. When I saw the dyed wools together it was a reflection of the plants and the dyeing. The colors form …
