I spent a week on Whidbey Island with Elin Noble and 14 other artists learning the art of shibori while discharging and dyeing fabrics. It was wonderful! We tried clamping, stitching, arashi (pole-wrapping) and masking a raft of different fabrics: silk dupion, cotton, rayon twill, etc.
Elin is very knowledgeable about the chemistry of the dyeing and discharging process. Armed with that knowledge, you can analyze what happened on a piece of fabric, and predict what will happen on another. How great is that!?
Here are a few of my favorite pieces from the week:
The setting was beautiful. This is not a postcard–it is an actual picture I took from the deck of the Cottage on the Cove:
Sometimes I think I am the luckiest person on Earth.
After a week on Whidbey Island, I spent a week in Seattle, and visited the Seattle Art Museum AND the La Conner Quilt Museum. More on those wonderful outings later….
yes, you are the luckiest person. I lived in WA several years ago and found it to be the best in textile arts I have ever lived in.
June, I get to back again to study with Elin again in October…and I can’t wait. Hoping to see Port Townsend, too.
Mary, my lots of my family lives in Whitney Island and Seattle too…it really is nice and cool up there and green year round. Glad you ha fun.
Enee, you are lucky to have family to visit there. It is so beautiful… I had never heard of the place until I signed up for the workshop…. The Pacific Northwest School of Art is a great place to take a class.
The trick is integrating any of these with my samaras imagery….hmmmm. Things are percolating….
Yes, you are the luckiest person on earth and all of these have possibilities! Thanks for sharing.