I’ve been totally busy lately weaving and dyeing. I am half way through weaving a landscape that will be 24” x 12”. Then I started another Women’s Equity tapestry to represent the Gender Pay Gap Issue that I call Women’s Work. It is based upon a sketch of a woman’s hands by Da Vinci. And my final weaving project is a postcard tapestry that I’m weaving for the American Tapestry Association Postcard Exchange. Photos of all to follow.
Believe it or not, I’ve found time to take a class on Heat Press Dyeing from Jane Dunewold. I bought a 20” x 16” platten Heat Press and I’m learning what it can do for my Botanical Printing process. It can do a single press in 4 minutes instead of the usual 1 - 2 hours in a steamer. The results have been good. I am making hand stitched, naturally dyed, leather bound journals with this process. They will also be for sale in my studio, but I’ve already started writing in one of them myself.
