Every year I get together in the summer with a friend and we make an indigo vat. Dyeing with indigo is a mixture of chemistry and magic, rather like developing a film. I’m not going into the detail again as I’ve put up a couple of posts before…
Category: craft
I’ve recently taken part in a couple of hand-made book workshops with Alex Hare and Lizzie Shepherd, learning how to make a simple concertina book and a Japanese stab-bound book. For the first, I chose a series of my “accidental paintings” – close-ups of weathered boat hulls. I’ve had…
Although I’ve been happily taking photos for many years and am pretty au fait with the technical side, it’s never too late to learn something new. I’ve been wanting to do more to promote my pottery for a while now, and today I learnt a lot! I was…
What with Storm Ali and now the impending storm Bronagh (where do they dream this up?), the trees have been taking a bit of a battering. Interestingly, the oaks seem to have borne the brunt, with barrowfuls of twigs and small branches bearing golden, russet and green leaves…
or …. happiness is a full washing line Shibori is a Japanese word for what many aging hippies will know more commonly as tie-dye – although it is often practised in a far more sophisticated and subtle way than the T-shirt with concentric circles you may remember from…