Thursday, February 3, 2011

Silk organza–again

Finally set ink to silk organza, 5 pieces, each 6' long. Favorite tool was a small piece of burlap with straggling threads–ravelings in the language of my Ohio childhood. Love that word!

Here's another one. This time the tool is a crumpled potato chip bag. Shake the silk while the ink is wet; splatters the ink, creates fantastic (as in weird) shapes.
The silk in both photos is folded on itself, love the effect and will try to develop a way to show the pieces to take advantage of that transparency. Have thought of using the silk to wrap a white box, use several layers. Might have to order more silk. However, there is still the silk gauze with the tea staining on the ends & middle…

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