Shrouded Moon

Playing with anchored weaving, quadrants, and gauze.

Wow! Thanks jude!

I'm so excited! Today I received a little package from jude with a selection of transparencies to play with.
from top to bottom: cotton harem cloth, a jazzy eyelet, handkerchief weight cotton, krinkle gauze, silk gauze, embroidered linen? and another eyelet.
It inspired me to dig out my light table and play...

Harem cloth over bright red, lit from behind

and in front

jazzy eyelet over shibori

and lit from behind

handkerchief weight cotton, playing with diffusion and folds

krinkle gauze over loose dyework

Silk gauze over arashi

embroidered linen over batik

eyelet over itajime

Lots of food for thought here.

It is really interesting how the direction the light is coming from changes the look of the pieces so drastically.

makes me think about time and the passage of light as a day winds by.

visitor

Someone passed by this evening.

Small footfalls like kanoko

2nd color begun

Pale olive over thin gauze.
Mimicing the shibori lines.
Sap running beneath snow.

First color is done now.

Let the next begin....

Quite lovely

The results from the test are in. I'm not having much luck controlling my colors on silk. The results are gloriously askew; black turns maroon and copper, brown turns iredescent orange and olive, and grey turns bronze with steel blue edges.

Its pretty.

I tried all sorts of things to try to keep the colors from wicking like that, No dice.

I've decided that the silk has determined that this is how it should be, and I have to agree its a good call.

I am going to find another sort of scarf to use for my project and enjoy the silk just as it is.

just sharin' the love

I've been getting into some fun treasuries on ETSY.

The process of updating the shop is ongoing a start and stop effort...