All Blog Posts Tagged 'silk' (6)

Amazing, absolutely amazing silk fabrics! Organic, handwoven, fairtrade, too -- and coloured with natural dyes. Just posted on our website: TAMMACHAT Natural Textiles in our Online Shop. Yummy colours, as my friend Kate would say. For all kinds of fibre arts or sewing projects. Continue

This is the finished pieces, background tussah silk and throwster's waste, red poppies and green stems noil, banana fibres to mark the petals and black wool in the center of the poppies!

There are only 3 men alive that served in the 1st world war in Britain. 90 years ago people weren… Continue

Hi everyone, nice to be here! I'm on a bit of a quest to seriously think about where my raw materials come from and how something I enjoy effects other people. The production of silk and its conversion from raw material to product is a labour intensive one and unfortunately the counties involved are not reknowned for their fair trade. I want to try and source silk waste, slivers or noil that is part of a fair trade process. I don't have huge qualms about the life of silk worms and I apologise… Continue

I love the cemetery. It is a great place to commune with the dead, my crayon, and my silk. It's like going to a mellow party where I get to meet people one-on-one and spend as much time with them as I like. There are many Ohio Infantrymen at Greenlawn Cemet… Continue

Hannah Died... in the mid-1800's. But I think she might still be hanging around her grave at Greenlawn Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio. When I left the grave site, my engine malfunction light went on. Curious. After I got home, and my kids had returned hom… Continue

I've been working on Creatrix Jane again. It might be the trees all ablaze or the rustling leaves, but Autumn always makes me want to, well, make stuff! … Continue