Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Dying Fabrics - Artist Research


Liz Hewitt
Currently she uses West African strip cloth to create vibrant heavily stitched cloths. She also enjoys using silk fibres, handmade paper, and experiments with hemp, ramie, bamboo and other unusual fibres to create fabric backgrounds for stitch. When I spoke to her at the Broderers exhibition she recommended viscose satin, silk velvet and viscose as excellent fabrics for dying as you can achieve deep strong colours with them - Brunel Broderers


Jilli Blackwood
Dyes all the fabrics within her wearable art pieces.- Alexandra Palace



Shibori fabrics from China are created using natural indigo dye - Alexandra Palace


Liz Harding uses a variety of hand dyed sheer fabrics attached together by colour stitch in her wall hangings - Brunel Broderers

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