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Post by Teri Berry on Feb 7, 2014 23:23:45 GMT
Honestly, it's not complicated at all (if I can do it anyone can!), I have posted longer descriptions on my blog and am very happy to answer questions if you want to have a go.
I see the blue/green/yellow piece becoming a cuff / bracelet with beads nestling in the folds. The second piece might get stitched to a book cover as a focal point / decoration and I think the third piece will lend itself well to be felted into a larger piece as a textural element.
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Post by Teri Berry on Feb 7, 2014 22:06:36 GMT
Terri, yes I have been looking for water. I have a friend works for a township water works that is keeping an eye out for me. I may have to break down and buy one. He sounds like a very good friend to know! I had a scout around for large water / drainage pipes last night and they are horribly expensive, and not helped by most companies wanting you to buy at least 10m of pipe! Anyone want 8m of wide bore plastic pipe?? I hope your friend finds something suitable but if he doesn't I found some galvanised steel ducting pipe that they sell in shorter lengths and up to 1m diameter that might be useful for a fraction of the price of the water mains. www.ducting-online.co.uk/products/c9-Clip-Pipe/I'm starting to think £4000 for a ready made felting machine isn't so expensive after all!
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Post by Teri Berry on Feb 7, 2014 21:55:22 GMT
Here are the results of my shibori experiments - thank you all for the helpful suggestions, it has been an interesting exploration. This was the original piece with a fine layer of merino before folding it back up again: This one was a silk-merino laminate that I then stitched and shibori dyed: This one was a piece of silk that I stitched and as I gathered the fabric I poked wisps of merino into the folds, felted and shibori dyed:
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Post by Teri Berry on Feb 6, 2014 20:34:06 GMT
Thanks for posting the pics of the felt roller Ann, your timing is perfect. My other half is an engineer and agreed to build me a felting machine (he nearly fell of his chair when I told him how much the commercial ones cost). He was working on a design based on the rollers and a ratchet system to move the top roller up and down but says the system in your pics would be much simpler to build (I'm hoping that means I will receive a working machine sometime this year!).
He also said the pipe could be either gas or water mains pipe - not sure if that helps any in your search for suitable pipe?
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Post by Teri Berry on Feb 6, 2014 20:16:07 GMT
Lovely colour choice, the blue and yellow/orange are particularly pretty, and glad to hear you were successful, do you know what you did differently that made the difference?
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Post by Teri Berry on Feb 6, 2014 20:11:47 GMT
Wow, the scarf is lovely Ann, clearly worth the effort of all the stitching. Is it only felt or did you laminate it to a fabric too?
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Post by Teri Berry on Feb 5, 2014 19:04:18 GMT
They have some really interesting looking workshops, it was tough for me to just choose one... Historically I have been terrible at remembering to take photos during a workshop but I will try to share in a blog post when I get back.
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Post by Teri Berry on Feb 4, 2014 23:42:20 GMT
Hi Ruth, I'd be happy to take a photo for you but not sure how to upload photos to the forum without posting it on my blog first - can you advise please?
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Post by Teri Berry on Feb 4, 2014 18:15:06 GMT
Is anyone else planning to attend the International Feltmaker's Association conference in Switzerland this May?
I have just had confirmation that I have place on Yvonne Habbe's post conference workshop developing 3D vessels. I have made a few bags and bowls using resists but some of Yvonne's pieces are multi-lobal and delicate-looking, I am looking forward to making some more complex 3D designs in felt.
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Post by Teri Berry on Feb 4, 2014 18:07:20 GMT
Lots of great (and cheap) ideas here, I don't really have much to add except my favourite tool for wetting out large nuno pieces is my garden sprayer, I found a chap selling them on ebay for £7 and for the cheapskate list, I cut the bottoms off bin bags (pedal-bin liners are great) and cut up the side to make sheets of plastic for rolling in or protecting my work surface from water / dyes. Though now I have seen Marilyn's suggestion of using cling film, the bin bags might get a rest...
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Post by Teri Berry on Feb 4, 2014 17:34:53 GMT
Thanks Zed, I have a copy of your ebook although I confess it took me a while to find it again (my hard drive is very disorganised). I will give the pleating before felting another go at some point but think Ruth's suggestion might be the most successful for retaining the shibori folds. I have just felted a small square and hope to get it stitched tonight. Hope to share the results by the weekend. I also played with the piece pictured above today, all I will say is that it is VERY pleated and a fraction of the size it was before I started felting. I don't think it bears much resemblance to the shibori folds above but it is interesting and quite pretty. Will share what I did on my blog with the results of the piece I'll stitch tonight. This is so exciting!
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Post by Teri Berry on Feb 3, 2014 23:41:39 GMT
Thank you all for the great suggestions, I will definitely start a new piece of white silk and laminate with white wool before stitching for shibori dyeing, I expect it will hold its shape very well if I let it dry before removing the stitching (I have a horrible feeling the stitching will be difficult to remove though). For the piece above I think I might try something similar to what Zed did a few weeks ago and put some thin wisps of wool in the bottoms of the creases, attempt to fold it back up and then felt it. Not sure what will happen, but its worth a try! Ooh just had another idea... I could start another piece and poke little wisps of wool into the creases as I am drawing the threads tight.... is it too late to start another project tonight?
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Post by Teri Berry on Feb 3, 2014 20:48:12 GMT
That's a good idea - laminate it first, then stitch and dye it.... that could work Thanks Ruth
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Post by Teri Berry on Feb 3, 2014 20:45:33 GMT
Wow - another screen printing session?!! I would have thought you'd have run out of space by now
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Post by Teri Berry on Feb 3, 2014 19:48:25 GMT
Hello I dyed a piece of stitched shibori last week with the intent of making a book cover from it but confess I like the texture of the silk more than the dye effect. I would really like to keep the texture but expect it will flatten out as soon as it is wetted out for felting. Does anyone know a way to keep the texture while felting (or laminating to another fabric to give it support)? This is the fabric: I am toying with the idea of folding it back up into the concertina it was dyed in (that will be a challenge in itself) and spraying or soaking with a dilute PVA glue solution. If I do this, will I still be able to felt it once it has dried? Any other ideas? Thanks for your help with this....
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