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Category Archives: Natural dyeing
The wonders of iron on the first day of Spring
On a visit to the Fremantle Arts Centre last Friday to see Unfolding: Contemporary Indian Textiles curated by Maggie Baxter, I parked on a side road. The street trees were eucalypts and some branches had fallen quite some time ago. … Continue reading
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Dyeing with Avocado Pips
Yesterday my friend Julie and I had a day of dyeing using all the onion skins, avocado skins and pips, ripe olives, puffballs, and Euc. wandoo bark and leaves we’d each collected. The day went so well we had a … Continue reading
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Hand Dyed Yarns from Timor
On my recent fantastic holiday to Timor we were hosted by a village near Kefamenanu [http://activetravel.com.au/Trips/west-timor-textiles-culture/] that has begun again to use its traditional plant dyeing techniques. We were treated to a demonstration of natural dyeing using local plants from … Continue reading
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Only Women Weave: overview of my Timor trip
I have just had the best holiday ever. I went to Timor in Indonesia (aka West Timor before the independence of Timor L’este). Our guides were Ruth Hadlow and Ony Made. The trip was organised by Active Travel (http://activetravel.com.au/Trips/west-timor-textiles-culture/). In … Continue reading
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Chain of events forms luck: Invited to exhibit!!
I’ve never really believed it when people said you have to “put yourself out there” to get noticed. At least, I didn’t think that would work for me. Wrong! Last year the Designing Women group had an exhibition. I put in … Continue reading
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Dyeing various natural fibres with E.wandoo
With a large bag of Eucalyptus wandoo bark , fresh from York in WA’s east, I thought to see how it dyes different natural fibres. I’ve been collecting fine undyed yarns for while in order to put them into freeform … Continue reading
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Hidden Revealed Transformed: MELD exhibition
The opening of our MELDArts exhibition, Hidden Revealed Transformed, is documented on our website at http://www.meldarts.com/wordpress/ The exhibition is the culmination of months of planning and collaboration and I have learned a great deal not only about organising exhibitions but also … Continue reading
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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