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.
Book 5 – Sea Current
Book 4 – Bound with words
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 stitching. There are three signatures, the spine is a piece of driftwood found on Hove beach and I used some polymer clay beads I had made a long time ago and which needed a home.
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 me to wonder if they have something of the spirit of “duende’ about them – something heart and soul felt, but intangible. This book takes the circle as its inspiration. I also found somewhere the idea of a circle becoming a square, which I have incorporated into the pages.