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Author Archives: Margaret Ford
Mudcloth completed.
Earlier this year (April 2014) as a member of the Western Australian Fibre and Textile Association (www.wafta.com.au) I had the chance to learn Judy Dominic’s version of bogolanfini. Participants in the workshops brought mud to share from the breadth of … Continue reading
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Natural dyeing with a purpose
I’ve spent a few days doing some more dyeing so that I can actually make something. I now have a good spectrum of fine silk organza dyed with avocado skins, red and brown onions, casuarina leaves, purple carrots, pomegranate and … Continue reading
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Don’t waste that tea!
My sister had a clean out of her tea drawer. So I got some of those large tea flower type things that open up in boiling water, as well as some small hard lumps of tea shoots. Of course, using … Continue reading
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More natural dyeing…
I’m in a dyeing mood, so I’ll just get those four ancient purple carrots out of the crisper. And that pile of brown onion skins from the slow cooked lamb shanks of last night. Oh, and the slab of frozen … Continue reading
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Dyeing with Oriental Lilies
I took some dark red lilies to my friend Liz’ place a few weeks ago. Liz returned them to me once they’d died. She’d torn them up, complete with their yellow stamens, and wrapped them tightly in a piece of … Continue reading
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Wonderful weekend
This has been a sunny weekend with warmth and clarity of light so I’ve worked outside on another leaf. I’ve also been applying successive coats of paint to more small canvases which will bear the “leaves”. Why am I making … Continue reading
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New rust series
I’ve nearly finished four small pieces which will be wrapped around 30cm canvases for hanging in the MELD exhibition (Hidden Revealed Transformed see http://meldarts.wordpress.com) Can’t show them here because they’ll need to be kept unpublished but here’s a detail….
Life imitating art
I went with friend Di Binns to the Artsource open studios in Midland today. We got there early so looked in on the Farmers’ Market first. Seeing this vegetable, I couldn’t resist buying it, if only for the photographic opportunity. … Continue reading
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Displacement activity
My last post was headed “Panic sets in”. So did you think that this next post would be a focussed presentation of a work for the MELD exhibition? How naive! I’m a member of a Perth-based group called Designing Women. … Continue reading
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Panic sets in
It’s the end of a long weekend and all my fellow MELD members think I’ve been applying myself to some exhibition pieces. NOT! I spend the first two days totally absorbed in the detective problem solving that is on-line genealogy … Continue reading
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