Week 39: Two-color block print on cotton muslin I’m in full holiday production mode over here. After some setbacks with my new collection, I’ve decided to scrap it and start all over again. Well, not completely over. I went through my sketchbooks and found a few layouts I liked a lot, but that hadn’t fit […]
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Week 38: Three-color block prints on linen. Despite promises to myself that I would take most of Saturday and Sunday off, I worked all weekend. I was so excited to start printing my winter collection (I burned the screens last week), so I ignored my own advice and got to screenprinting. And everything I
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Remember last week, when I wrote about my friend Kenya, and the natural ink she was experimenting with? Well, she tweaked her recipe a bit (a lot), and brought me two jars of the most beautiful, delicious-smelling cochineal ink. She said something about clove oil preserving the ink, so the ink did smell a bit
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This is my friend Kenya. Kenya makes beautiful textiles using natural dyes, having studied the craft in Ghana and Oaxaca, Mexico. We met through the craft show/Instagram/mutual friend circuit (those of you who are artists know how that happens). Over coffee one day, Kenya mentioned that we could make printmaking ink out of natural dye.
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