"TORSO
ON A HANGER" 2007 28" x 23" x 5"Click on the photos to view a full size version!
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"TORSO
ON A HANGER" 2007 28" x 23" x 5"
Using a basketry technique, strips of handwoven fabric (cotton, rayon, silk) are wrapped around a cotton core. Coiled and machine stitched, commercial hanger.
"FIRE
AND ICE" 2007 10.5"
x 7.5"
Plaited basket from wool Pendleton blanket selvedges
"CELEBRATION
BAG" 2007
Wet felted, of Corriedale/ Finn/ Rambouillet Cross wool, and Bombyx Silk, from Spinners Hill. Inkle woven band, of variegated soy silk, rayon, and Tencel. Ultrasuede® trim, rayon lining. Pattern from The Sewing Workshop, purchased pin from Cheryl Louise Olney.
"PINEAPPLE
BAG" 2007
Quilted Pineapple Block using fabric scraps of handpainted handwoven rayon and silk with wool weft, and raw silk. MX Fiber Reactive dyes. Ultrasuede® trim, silk lining, purchased closure, original bag design.
"LEAVES
AND BERRIES" 2007 150” x 30”
Hand-painted Unmercerized cotton yardage woven in plain weave and twill bordered by 6-ply rayon, with stripes of Hand-painted cotton tape woven as a supplemental warp on a plain weave ground of 6-ply rayon to simulate seeds and berries. Warps were painted with MX Fiber Reactive Dyes, and woven on 8 shafts. Weft is 2/8 Wool.
“Meandering vines, bright leafy greens, heavy with berries, crushed and oozing, purples and magentas, concord grapes, raspberries, blackberries, splashes of color amidst the brambles of vines. The woven structures were chosen to give the illusion of climbing vines, heavy with leaves and berries, seeds imbedded in color, oozing with juicy ripeness.”
This yardage was exhibited at LUSH An International Juried Exhibition of Yardage 2007 in conjunction with the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery at Bristol Community College, sponsored by the Textile Study Group of New Bedford, Fall River, MA
"FROSTED
FLORALS" 2007 162"
X 25"
Handpainted warps, MX Fiber Reactive dyes, Handwoven rayon and silk, twill, plain weave. 8 shafts
"SANDSTONE
LAYERS" 2007 117" X 36.5 "
Handpainted warps, MX Fiber Reactive dyes. Handwoven rayon and cotton, twill, plain weave, basket weave, supplemental warp, 8 shafts.
"SANDSTONE
SHADE" 2008
Handpainted warps, MX Fiber Reactive dyes. Handwoven rayon and cotton, twill, plain weave, basket weave, supplemental warp, 8 shafts. Cotton flannel interlining, sunblock lining, Roman shade hardware.
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