"SMOKY
CRYSTALS" 2005Click on the photos to view a full size version!
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"SMOKY
CRYSTALS" 2005
Pieced squares of fringed, handwoven, brushed mohair, rayon, and cotton. Original pattern
"PEACOCK
FANTASY" 2005
Pieced handwoven rayon, cotton, silk and mohair (front band), rayon lining and binding, beads. Adapted from a Vogue Pattern
This garment was exhibited at:
FIBER CELEBRATED 2007
Intermountain Weavers
Conference Juried Exhibit, Durango, CO
Transgression & Transformation (TnT) Surface Design
Association Juried Fashion Event 2007 Kansas City, MO
This garment was exhibited
at SEAMS: CONTEMPORARY ART TO WEAR 2008 The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
Curated by Joanie San Chirico and Dorrie Papademetriou
"COCOON"
2005
Pieced
handwoven plain weave mohair, rayon, cotton, and silk. Recycled animal fur, rayon
lining, polyester and silk binding. Modified Folkwear pattern.
Featured on the home page of Folkwear Patterns
www.folkwear.com
This garment was exhibited at:
Handweaver's Guild of America exhibit "Make a Grand Entrance", Convergence
2006, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
FIBER CELEBRATED 2007
Intermountain Weavers
Conference Juried Exhibit, Durango, CO, IWC Award for
Excellence in Functional Wearable
Transgression & Transformation (TnT) Surface Design
Association Juried Fashion Event 2007 Kansas City, MO
"PHOENIX RISING"
2005
Handpainted
mohair bouclé, cotton, rayon, and silk warps with MX Fiber Reactive Dyes.
Handwoven, 8 Shaft Block Twill. Vogue Pattern.
This garment appeared as part of
the Fabric Forecast Year in Review, Handwoven Magazine Issue 130
May/June 2006
"DRAGONFLY"
2005
Hand
painted rayon/silk warp woven in 2/1 twill, novelty rayon woven in plain
weave, and immersion dyed mohair loop woven in a modified 3 thread bird's eye,
all on 8 shafts. MX Dyes. Trimmed in commercial fabric, in-seam buttonholes.
Pattern from Burda.
This garment appeared as part of the Fabric Forecast Year in Review, Handwoven Magazine Issue 130 May/June 2006
"FULLED
WITH SARI" 2006
Machine fulled handwoven fabric, hand brushed mohair, rayon, and cotton. Plain weave. Trimmed with bias cut strips of a cotton sari from India. Original pattern.
This garment was created using a draping method on a dressform for an article for Handwoven Magazine, Issue 132 Nov/Dec 2006
"SPIRIT
MIST" 2007
Handwoven mohair, cotton, rayon in a plain weave, brushed on the loom. Reworked from one of my production garments, circa 1982 (photo right), Burda pattern. Trimmed and lined with a silk Sari from India.
"NATIVE
WOODS" 2007
Vest - Handpainted Tencel, MX dyes, woven in 4 shaft twill. Commercial rayon accents, lined with vintage alpaca fur. Modified Burda pattern. The skirt is sewn from a vintage cut of wool, using a Burda pattern.
"AURORA
BOREALIS" 2007
Handwoven cotton, rayon, and silk in plain weave. Fabric draped on the bias with one seam. Original pattern.
"FOREST
FIRE" 2007
Handpainted rayon, and rayon/cotton warps. MX Dyes. Additional rayon bouclé warp wool singles weft. The structure is an 8 shaft combination weave based on Strickler 274. Lined with a silk Sari from India. Original Design. Inkle woven band with pick-up of cotton and rayon. Dress sewn from a silk slub fabric, lined with a silk Sari. Modified Vogue pattern.
While I was working on this piece, 17,000 acres of NJ Pine Barrens burned in an out of control wildfire, a huge loss to NJ's fragile ecosystem.
"SECOND TIME AROUND"
2007
Pieced vest from felt scraps, (wool and silk). Felt by Piroska Toth. Piecing techniques include stitching, binding, and needle felting with the Janome Expressions needle felting machine. Original vest design. Lined with a silk Sari from India.
"STEPPING STONES"
2007
Handmade felt from a Romney sheep fleece from my late mother-in-law's stash, and handmade felt from commercially carded Romney and silk. Dyed with Cushing Dyes and heat set in the microwave. Felt squares were cut and pieced, using stitching and needle felting techniques with the Janome Expressions needle felting machine. Original jacket design. Lined with a Sari from India.
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