Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo, Stitching Buddhas and Weaving Inspiration
Posted in Uncategorized, dyeing on Oct 26th, 2009
A wonderful course with Ruth Issett at Creative Days Ticino last week has made possible a long-overdue update on my satin dyeing experiments. It seems that my difficulties were not related so much to the dyeing chemicals and processes, but to the unusual qualities of the particular silk satin I was using! Too bad it [...]
Posted in Blogging, dyeing, surface design on Mar 20th, 2008
Oh, this blogging business is complicated. Once you decide to start and think that you’re just going to have to be disciplined and creative about generating posts, you discover that there are endless things to learn about search engine placement and that all the research you did when you designed your website YEARS ago is [...]
Posted in Fabric, dyeing, surface design, textile art on Mar 11th, 2008
It just won’t work! The acid-dyed satin is as ripply as the Procion/soda ash stuff! It seems that the soaking itself breaks something down in the weave. The cloth even seems almost stretchy. And no matter how much and how hot I iron it, I can’t make it smooth and shiny again! I guess it’s [...]
Posted in Fabric, dyeing, surface design, textile art on Mar 10th, 2008
Today, I used acid dyes to color a couple of pieces of silk satin for my thangkas. I don’t have a top-loading washing machine, so I had to go with the stove top method. And since I only have one pot big enough to allow the silk to swim freely, I did one color at [...]
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