Shibori on silk12, 19, 26 July (3 weeks) fold & clamp, stitched, cappedMeet at the Entwinements studio Sunday afternoon, 1-6PM5 Students, $120 includes materials or $140 with book (autographed)No prior knowledge of shibori or dyeing is needed and all levels...
Posted in ENTWINEMENTS on July 4, 2009 08:09 PM
Multicolored groundIt doesn't take long for an artist applying color with a brush, even a sponge brush, to start using more colors. So here is a ground I painted for the samples for the hygragena jackets. Using this as The...
Posted in ENTWINEMENTS on October 15, 2007 11:14 PM
I'm not happy with these: These are two Maki-age samples that I made for my jackets last winter. Thery are done on a gauzy silk noil. It was dyed with Lanaset dyes the neutral color I call Rose-gold after the metal. ...
Posted in ENTWINEMENTS on October 7, 2007 01:25 PM
In our push to get jackets ready for the last show I did 6 jackets in one batch, with more agitation than in the previous dye baths. The black came out great but the resists were not tight enough for...
Posted in ENTWINEMENTS on March 10, 2007 12:14 AM
over all view closer detail These are some images I got from a now expired action on ebay of a traditional Japanese piece. I like the individual shapes and the crackle inside the shape. The stylized wisteria doesn't do...
Posted in ENTWINEMENTS on February 13, 2007 03:42 PM
This is the sample from yesterday opened. The gray lavender ground is fairly uniform even between the motifs-- yeah! You can see the difference between the capped and bound motifs. Here is more detail: This one is capped. This...
Posted in ENTWINEMENTS on February 6, 2007 10:56 AM
I have dicided I want to use the lavender grey color as a ground color, now I need some colors to go with. I'm going to try some more capped shibori. This time I am trying a mottled ground color...
Posted in ENTWINEMENTS on February 5, 2007 07:17 PM
Here are some more images of Pat's lovely work and her words. This is a piece that was capped repeatedly using discharged and dyed with vat, acid and Sabracon dyes. This is an orinui pattern bound on a rope with...
Posted in ENTWINEMENTS on January 26, 2007 09:02 AM
You can compare this with the instudio picture. This is the Stringray outfit much discussed in this blog (a, b, c, d e, f, g, h i, j). The textile center has put up pictures from the ARTWEAR IN...
Posted in ENTWINEMENTS on November 1, 2006 10:33 AM
I'm always suprised at a show when some one says to me that there is "nothing else like this here". I just walked down the same aisle and saw every other wearable booth with shibori. My conclusion is that they...
Posted in ENTWINEMENTS on October 30, 2006 07:03 PM
Well here are some wraps that are NOT packed for SF. I did pack 4 wraps, from current colorways: in pink diamonds, bing salsa, anthracite and black/champange. These are special pieces, much like the ones already dicussed here and here...
Posted in ENTWINEMENTS on August 7, 2006 02:03 PM
This is a continuation of special pieces. I am also taking a few sets-composed of an opera shawl and a feather pleated scarf- with me to San Francisco ACC show next week. Five got shipped and I can take others...
Posted in ENTWINEMENTS on August 6, 2006 06:47 PM
We packaged our stuff for the San Francisco ACC show, they will pick it up tomorrow and hopefully everything-booth, stock, lighting, packaging, office stuff- will be there when I arrive next Thurs, the 10th. I can set up and be...
Posted in ENTWINEMENTS on August 3, 2006 09:01 PM
Here is a Japanese indigo/white kimono with capped petals in the flowers. Boshi means hat or maybe cap in Japanese and is their term for this kind of shibori. narablog INDIGO SHIBORI COTTON YUKATA AKITA, LATE 19C/EARLY 20C, UNUSEDTECHNIQUES: BOSHI...
Posted in ENTWINEMENTS on July 14, 2006 10:20 AM
Capped shibori is one of the simplest types of shibori to do. No specialized tools are needed and it works with many types of weaves; open gauzy ones or dense tight one like fuji broadcloth or bridal satin ( all...
Posted in ENTWINEMENTS on July 13, 2006 10:27 PM
Entwinements makes a line of colorful, pleated shibori scarves and shawls which are sold at indoor, fine craft fairs, •star scarf, •shawl, •giant star, •opera shawls, •quetzalcoatl, •medium feather pleated, •feather pleated wrap,
Posted in ENTWINEMENTS on June 27, 2006 11:23 PM