Photo from today
A friend of mine shot a couple of new photos for me – this is my favorite:
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Silk Reeling at the Crow Collection
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 […]
Treenway's gallery!
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 […]
Flat silks for Paul
These are for Paul Martin, who is going to tie fishing flies with them. More colors to come: purple, green, magenta, silver, teal.
Dyeing for embroidery
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.
More silk work: degumming
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
Cause that's not the kind of geek that I am…
I keep getting hits to wormspit.com from a NeverWinterNights forum. Does anybody know what this is? http://nwn.bioware.com/guilds_registry/viewtopic.html?topic=226187&forum=3561&gid=2226&sp=90 I’m just curious what they’re saying about the site!
Me, in a podcast!
I got interviewed for a Fiber Cast episode – http://fiberarts.typepad.com/fibercast/ We talk for about twenty minutes about silk, silkworms, sericulture… I’m excited; I think it turned out well.
Harry's Ribbon
I used the remaining warp from Nick and Cerra’s handfasting ribbon to make my Pakistani friend Harry a bookmark.
Finally finished: Mom's Silk Lace Scarf
This is a project that I’ve been fiddling with for quite a while. I finally got it finished up, blocked, pressed, and gifted the week before Christmas. The photos have been hanging out in the camera since then – finally, all the *other* holiday business is done, so I got a chance to fiddle with […]