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...
Category: Textile and Mixed Media Books
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...
Second textile book
This is a zigzag book that can also become a hanging if hung from the closing ring. I love poppies and my garden is always full of them, so I took this as my theme, from buds to seed through the year. The image on the left shows the first three pages, that on the...
A second scroll
I so loved the first scroll I made that I couldn’t resist doing a second one. I’ve called it “Indigo Blues” as all the blue pieces inside are indigo-dyed fabrics. The outside is the only Procion dyed fabric and this has been stamped using acrylic paint. As I was adding stitching, along lines...