Every month a group of 9 crafts women from around the world, join to answer each in their own way, the same question. This month is a challenge! Each of us submitted a picture of our own making, voted and then the idea was to make with our medium of choice a version of the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Felt'
The pot keeps boiling…
August 25th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Dyeing, Felt, Fibre Art
Remember a few days ago I posted about this wrap or scarf made with silk and merino. Very light and soft. Well, I dyed it with weld which gives a very pretty yellow. Since I was experimenting, afterwards I dip it in an old copper pot. I didn’t heat it up at all but I [...]
Tags:envolvente·Felt·fieltro·natural dyeing·reseda·scarf·shwal·silk·silk and merino·vilt·weld·wrap
Cords au naturelle
August 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Felt, life
Cords au naturelle, originally uploaded by Marian Florcita.
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Friday already? The week went by so fast…
*Took a workshop on porcelain with this Lady … friend of the house by now
*Received a gorgeous package with different Scottish raw wool from Monika … and the house continues to smell like a zoo! She added a copy [...]
Tags:Alison·cords·Felt·filz·friends·Monika·presents·vilt·week
Multifunctional for the table II
August 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Felt
This is another one of those multifunctional table wares (table runner, pot holder….) like the previous green one. The orange is not quite so…fluorescent really. I can’t get that colour to show properly…but anyway…I made the green and this one last week and I’ve been a bit lazy with the photo editing…
Este es otro de [...]
Tags:circles·concentric·Felt·filz·mosaic·table runners·vilt·wool
Multifunctional for the table
August 15th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Felt, Fibre Art
I’ve been making these for a while but never put one in the shop, until someone came over for dinner and saw that I could put all hot pots and pans on the table on top of this woollen cloth, without burning the table or running around looking for a bunch of place mats oro [...]
Silk cap pure white
August 12th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Fibre Art
Silk cap pure white, originally uploaded by Marian Florcita.
These past days I have been working a lot. Do you have those days when your head just goes on and on non-stop and you have a million ideas that keep popping up and one is better than the other and you thing… when will I get [...]
Tags:Felt·fieltro·filz·hand felted·hand made·merino and silk·silk·silk laps·vilt·wrap
Mery Go Round: Networking
May 28th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Merry Go Round
Jump on our merry go round and join a group of artists/crafts – women as they link hands around the world and tell you a little about their lives and art.
And this month we will be talking about our networking preferences and results.
This is a more biz related topic I suppose… which is good as [...]
Textile Festival in Leiden
March 29th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Felt, Fibre Art
Last saturday, I woke up way too early,got ready and took the 7am train. Along the way I met with Kim and some friends of her (fantastic gals who made ma laugh the whole way!). We were going to the textile Festival held in Leiden, NL. All around the city in museums, galleries, studios, even [...]
Tags:Felt·fibres·knitting·leiden·patchwork·quilting·textile art
Floating drops
March 22nd, 2010 · 6 Comments · Tips
Amazing how water “floats” on top of wool until finally it goes through. Wool can absorb something like 20% of it’s weight in water before it feels wet. Not so easy to wet wool! And at the same time, because of it’s morphology; it absorbs and let’s water go through…that’s why people who do [...]
Tea dye
March 18th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Felt, Fibre Art
Now that the days are getting a bit nicer, I’m speding a lot more time outdoors. Going for walks, working in the garden. I ordered yesterday 3 new plants for the dye garden: woad (Isatis tinctoria) which gives a Blue dye. Madder (Rubia Tinctorum) that gives red, and weld (reseda luteola) which gives yellow. Last [...]
Tags:bamboo·dye·experiment·Felt·fibres·hand dyed·silk·tea dye·trilobal
