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Post by Shepherdess on May 3, 2014 17:57:38 GMT
Do you have any of the blog addresses? I would like to se some of the work.
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Post by Pandagirl on May 3, 2014 21:37:52 GMT
There are more than 100 students in the class. I just went thru three weeks of comments (about 1400) and could only find one. I wonder if the links have been removed. I know I've linked to several thru our discussion posts. I don't look them all up. Just getting thru every days comments is time consuming. www.deeplyfelt.com/2014/04/and-would-you-believe-it-i-finished.html
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Post by Shepherdess on May 3, 2014 23:26:59 GMT
Thanks for looking. I have her already so I will have to go check my blog reader.
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Post by halay on May 4, 2014 4:11:46 GMT
Zed, thanks for the link. Very interesting. Taking Fiona's class is on my list.
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Post by zed on May 4, 2014 10:12:34 GMT
I mentioned a few pages back that I had some silk gauze and it was stiff, and a few people recommended washing it. Well, I did, and it was weird, it crumpled up as I washed it, very bizarrely, like some kind of foil, and it didn't really want to uncrumple. I should have taken a photo before, I might have one somewhere, it was very shiny, and the fibres going one way looked metallic. Anyway, this is how it looked after washing It looks like a washing up scrunchy thing Oh, and it started to disintegrate when I tried to stretch it out and unscrunch it. So I googled and the only thing I can find is some references to silk taffeta, and how they are prone to disintegration because of the metal salts used to give them an opalescent sheen. Which makes sense looking at it.
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Post by Pandagirl on May 4, 2014 13:27:32 GMT
Zed it sounds like you found the problem. Silk gauze is very light and airy like cheesecloth only softer and lighter threads. I'd think taffeta would be very tightly woven.
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Post by MTRuth on May 4, 2014 14:49:24 GMT
Interesting Zed - you hadn't tried it with nuno before?
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Post by Shepherdess on May 5, 2014 0:55:41 GMT
Interesting, did you try a burn test? did et get softer? you could scrunch it up and felt it in for some surface texture, like I did with the cotton on the bracelets.
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Post by zed on May 5, 2014 9:43:32 GMT
No, I haven't tried it yet. I'd cut a piece off to try, and when I was sorting through boxes decided to quickly wash it, it was very odd they way it went from stiff to crumpled, just like tinfoil. No, I didn't do a burn test, I'm looking forward to trying out for nuno now though, maybe try this washed sample and an unwashed one too.
It doesn't seem tightly woven, but certainly doesn't have visible holes like gauze or cheesecloth.
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Post by koffipot on May 5, 2014 16:09:46 GMT
Zed, I have some similar fabric. It's silk woven with a v. fine copper thread, mine has shiva mirrors at intervals. I've nuno felted with it and it migrated well. I made a small bowl which looked as if it were frosted.
I've even boiled it up in the dye pot. It comes out 'stringy' but you can iron it back to it's original state.
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Post by zed on May 6, 2014 9:15:07 GMT
I wondered about ironing it, I'll have to make time for some samples, the frosted look sounds good
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Post by nbwilder on Jun 1, 2014 17:18:25 GMT
Hi, I've been following this thread and have an opinion on your silk gauze. Sounds like what you have is a fabric with metallic thread running through it. I have some of the fabric and it is stiff to begin with, then when washed and especially machine dried, comes out very crinkly, and still stiff. This can be used to advantage but I did not find it soft against the skin. - Nancy
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Post by zed on Jun 1, 2014 18:25:21 GMT
Hi Nancy, yeah, I'm fairly sure it's either a taffeta because of the way it 'disintegrated' when I washed it. Oddly enough, I just did some samples with it today, I'll post pics when I can.
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