A lovely quiet Saturday, about 6 inches of snow fell yesterday, and another 3 or so are due in tonight. The studio is warm, and my children are out, so it is just my husband and me puttering around the house. These are the easy days, I cherish them when I get them, because tomorrow could be completely different.
I spent some time cleaning up the studio. That is a really important part of my creative experience, to organize and clear away the surfaces, cover machines not in use, carefully return things to their proper places. I’m not so distracted by clutter which can take me away from the task at hand.
I decided to spend the rest of the afternoon working on a piece on my table loom, which is almost finished, using a Theo Moorman threading. I weave about a quarter inch of ground fabric, then lay in on top a thin strip of silk, and hold it down with poly sewing thread which is warped in with the cotton ground. The strip is part of a childhood photograph I printed on 10mm silk Habotai, which comes on a 10′ roll, pretreated for ink jet ink, and mounted on paper for easy transport through the printer. I got this from Dharma Trading. By running two or three lengths of this silk, 23″ long, I could print a much larger image, since I’m stripping it anyway, it doesn’t matter if it is in two or three pieces.
This is a larger version of one I sold, called Big Sister. The photo is from around 1957, of my younger sister and me, caught in an intimate moment. The photo above is the smaller version.
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Marta told me about this piece. It is so beautiful. She told me that she wanted to buy one and I do too! I think you should set up an internet site to accept pictures from people to make these. It is such a lovely way to make a picture into art.
Thank you for such a positive comment. Other viewers should know that Tammy is my sister, she hadn’t seen this piece, and Marta, the other sister, is the dark haired child in the Big Sister piece. Tammy hadn’t been born when that photograph had been taken. It is great to have such positive feedback from family members, we all have our own lives now, and don’t often see the everyday comings and goings that make our lives individual and personal. And Tammy, you are not the first person that has suggested that concept. I had someone else inquire about a… Read more »
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Decided to read this again and am wondering….where do you get your inkjet silk?
Dharma Trading Co.
[…] weaving techniques, such as the Theo Moorman inlay used by Daryl Lancaster (see her blog including here – weaversew.com/wordblog/2008/12/20/big-sister/) and Ann Roth’s work using strips of fabric she had dyed (here – […]