Textile Society of America Symposium 2016 The Textile Society of America 15th biennial symposium was held in Savannah Georgia in 2016. The co-hosts were the Savannah College of Art and Design and Art Rise Savannah. Ingrid lincoln and I attended the symposium this year. We caught one of the pre-symposium tours opting to have a group […]
Read More...Carol’s samples of dyed fabric using different sets of primary colours. In the fall I attended a Carol Soderlund workshop at the Pacific Northwest Art School. ‘TRUE COLORS: Developing a Personal Palette’ Building a reference for my chosen personal palette. Early in the week, I met one-on-one with Carol for my Palette Chat where I showed her my […]
Read More...Here are my results from a day out in the sun sprinkle dyeing and sun printing. This fabric had previously been dyed and still needed work. I sprinkled on a mixed dye. It is interesting to see how the blue migrated further than the red before the damp fabric dried out. The red blob in the […]
Read More...During a Mark Makers’ summer residency at the Vancouver Island School of Art (VISA) website we decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather and have a dyeing day outside. We set up tables and brought out buckets of water to the backyard of the school. I set up my sophisticated system for working with dye powder […]
Read More...Working with slippery synthetic sheers I can’t keep the large pieces of fabric under control. Solution – hang them on the wall and take down as needed. My current problem is to find a method for making a soft material appear hard. I have made tapered tubes. They need weights in the bottom to keep […]
Read More...After Kerry Mason’s talk, there was time for a quick lunch at the Habitat Cafe on the Royal Roads University campus before walking across the road to the edge of the forest. Gaia College instructor, ecological landscape designer and consultant, Manon Tremblay (centre) took the first group upstream for their walk in the forest. She […]
Read More...Last year I attended one of Carol Soderlund’s workshops and learnt how to dye neutral colours using Procion MX. She also taught us her dye technique that I have since been able to set up in my studio. This is the set-up for weighing dye powder to make the stock solution – cardboard box, newspaper, […]
Read More...After working its way from Newfoundland and across Canada to places in between, the ‘Edge of the Forest’ exhibition has arrived on the west coast. Actually, the 54 works in 2 shipping crates arrived on the island a month or so ago and I have kept them in storage until today when they were loaded […]
Read More...I was fortunate to be able to attend one of Carol Soderlund’s workshops– Carol’s website. She taught us her dyeing techniques while guiding our explorations of the colour wheel’s neutral territory. With Carol exploring neutrals is like going down a rabbit hole. Carol applies the dye in her unique way to get an even distribution […]
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