OPEN DOOR – Textile Tales - Week 10

OPEN DOOR – Textile Tales - Week 10

A lovely start to the morning, the sun was out and everyone was in high spirits. Bryony and I had setup two stations, one for batik and the other one for felt making.  Having experimented with the different techniques in previous weeks, we were working towards our final piece – a wall hanging.

The participants continued working in large strips – concentrating on colour patterns and textures, some created fantastic landscapes inspired by some of the books, whilst others used their own imagination and created interesting pieces.

Yvonne who had enjoyed doing batik on silk wanted another go but this time experimenting with cotton.  Now that she was confident with this technique and the tools she was becoming an expert in her choice of colours and building different layers of colour.

Wendy had also shown a keen interest in Batik – her ideas were fantastic, she’d worked with silk as her top layer and then worked on cotton as her second layer, I liked how she was building her layers with different fabrics.

Amarjeet was working like a machine – she had produced so many pieces using batik, she really enjoyed the technique.

On the other table we had Dalip and Sharon working with felt, Dalip is very experimental and loves to have a go at anything; her experimental style with pre felt was amazing.  She created holes in the pre felt and then places fibre wool tops over to create her felt.  I think she was very pleased with the outcome.

Sharon on the other hand enjoyed experimenting with nuno onto muslin – the part where you have to throw the felt with some force so the fibres shrink and create a ruffled effect was her favourite, it reminded her of India and how the ladies wash their clothes in a similar way to get rid of the dirt.