I learned quite a bit with my first adventure in silk embroidery. Because somebody asked – I’ve done a couple of small stitching projects before, but I’ve never stitched with silk. For scale, the lotus is just over 2 1/8″ top to bottom, 2 3/4″ side to side. It’s all stitched with flat silk which […]
I decided, with all the embroidery silk I’ve been making, I ought to try my hand at embroidery. So this is definitely still a learning experience; I am figuring out a lot of things! For scale, it’s just over an inch and a half tall. Red and white flat silk on smooth dupionni silk. My […]
For those of you who haven’t bumped into that part of my life… I’m a country-western dancer. You know that Willie Nelson gay cowboys song that has been hitting the press lately (at least around here) – you can hear it here:http://www.secretcowboys.com/ The cool part? I’m going to be dancing in the music video. We’re […]
A friend of mine shot a couple of new photos for me – this is my favorite:
For any local (North Texas) folks who will be around on Saturday, the 25th – I’m going to be part of an exhibit at the Crow Collection of Asian Art, showcasing art from the Silk Road. The title of the traveling exhibit is “Ancient Threads, Newly Woven: Recent Art from China’s Silk Road“. There is […]
I got my work listed in Treenway’s “Silkster’s Gallery”! It’s not a competition, but it is juried, and it’s neat to be in there. And I’m getting a skein of silk for making it in, which is always wonderful. Treenway is my source for commercial cocoons, and they also have a lot of different forms […]
These are for Paul Martin, who is going to tie fishing flies with them. More colors to come: purple, green, magenta, silver, teal.
This has been a fun adventure – I’m working up colors for an embroidery project that Rissa is going to embroider! These are the silks; they are five-meter tubes of 300-denier flat reeled silk, hand-reeled from cocoons.
I finally got photos taken, and a page worked up for the degumming process! It takes the silk from this: to this: https://www.wormspit.com/degumming.htm