At the end of August I had the wonderful experience of attending a workshop with India Flint at “les Soeurs Anglaises” (lots more photos on their site) in France. I have long admired India’s work and read her books, but nothing compares with actually being at a workshop with her! The other attendees were all lovely...
Author: Cherry Hirsch
Book 5 – Sea Current
I loved the idea of making a shell book and, like Ineke, I found my shells on eBay. I wanted the book to have the feel of following the current of the sea, so I printed a series of fishes running through each page, using fabrics that reinforced this idea and adding stitching which I...
Book 4 – Bound with words
A new book, focussing on words around a theme. It took a while for me to find my theme, but as the garden grew more and more parched before the recent rains, the word ‘water’ kept creeping into my consciousness. The pages are in sequence and reflect my thoughts around water and our relationship with...
A textile book inspired by plant forms in my garden
I have a lot of fabrics that I have dyed and printed with flower and leaf forms, often using the plants themselves, so this seemed to present a perfect opportunity for another book. I also used rusted fabrics, some leaf imprints using transfer dyes onto Evelon, beads, buttons, pieces of lace and both hand and machine...
Textile book 3
This third book is based on the Japanese concept of Wabi Sabi. This is the art of finding beauty in imperfection. The word wabi can mean humble by choice, sabi, the appreciation of rustiness. However, it is said that if you ask a Japanese the meaning of the words, they cannot translate them, which leads...