Indigo, Shibori and some Sashiko

Met de indigo en shibori werkstukken van vorige zomer heb voor de markt een viertal kussens gemaakt.
Ik verf altijd met oude lakens die ik koop bij de Emmaus kringloopwinkels. De oude Franse lakens zijn vaak gemaakt van een linnen-katoen binding , soms zelfs met een hennepdraad erin. Mooie stevige lakens , vaak nooit gebruikt en geel op de vouwen van het in de kast liggen.  Veel hebben nog geborduurde monogrammen.
Soms zonde om te verknippen.....
Je kunt ze natuurlijk ook als tafellaken gebruiken of er een dekbeddenhoes van maken , zoals ik gedaan heb. Als je in Frankrijk bent  deze zomer ga eens rondkijken bij een Emmaus. Er is er altijd wel eentje in de buurt. Op de site van de Emmaus kun je ze vinden.

 

 

 

 

What I made for the Christmas market

Warning....... lots of pictures!

Several different eco printed pouches

Three sloughy hats

Some dolls, the pattern is from While she naps.

Different bags, i only show you two, i made ten....

Bags for children, I made 15

I knitted two lefties, a blue one and a purple one

I made three free form crochet brooches, another one in red/purple and one in teal

And i made lots of more things, in all 150.

The market is tomorrow, wish me luck!!!!!!!

Indigo dyeing in Urciers

Urciers is the small village where I live, about 300 km south to Paris. Maybe it is better to call uUciers a hamlet, there are only 260 inhabitants!
After my dyeing experience in Bordeaux, i wanted to dye at home. I made a natural indigo vat, the reducer was fructose.
The first day the vat looked in a perfect condition but the blue was rather pale, even after 5 dips.
Two days later there was nu metallic shine, no flower on the surface of the vat, but the color was much deeper blue. I don't understand, there is still a lot learn about this magic indigo dyeing.

This week i will finish some children bags for the Christmas market, so next i will work with this fabric to make some bags.

Indigo dyeing in Bordeaux and in Japan

Oh my it is so long ago that I wrote a blogpost.
There are so many things to tell and to show you. At the moment I am working for the coming Christmas market . We had a splendid summer but weather was too hot to do any crafting, so i am far behind..........
But let's start at the beginning of september.
As you maybe remember i went to Bordeaux last year for an indigo workshop , given by Caroline.
I told Caroline that I really wanted to go to Japan for a ten days workshop. For several reasons I cancelled my registration but Caroline took my place and she went to Japan in may this year and it was a fabulous experience for her!

This was the view from her bedroom window.

The group was located in the house where the workshop teacher lived, an old traditional wooden house , rice paper on the walls, handmade traditional fabric everywhere.

The group learned several shibori techniques.....

Back home Caroline invited me to come again to Bordeaux to share with me the techniques she learned in Japan and of course to show me lots of photo's.

Her indigo vat was in a very good condition and we started to work .....

I made this masterpiece, it measures about 1.50 x 1.10.

The fabric was folded around a pole, that took me about three hours.

Caroline showed me how to manage the fabric with elastic rings,  while folding.

After folding the fabric was pressed together and ready for dyeing.

I dipped seven times........

After the unwrapping we were both very happy with the result.

Last weekend I dyed fabric to make bags for the Christmas market. I will show you some photo's soon.

Indigo and Shibori scarfs and I am off to Felletin

I dyed some scarfs with indigo, they were all wrapped around polyester tubes in different width and in different ways.

The last one is a woolen scarf which i dyed first in a camomile bath, then wrapped  around the tube and dyed the scarf in an indigo bath at last i dyed the scarf in a madder bath, this is the result.

This scarf will not be for sale, i will keep it myself!

Tomorrow i will go to Felletin  to do a 5 day workshop. Felletin is a small town in the department the Creuse, about 80 km from here.

The workshop is about dyeing and printing fabric. Here can you find the workshop information.

The teacher  is Mireille Vallet, i give you some links about here work here and here

Indigo and Shibori bags

Where have i been these two weeks. I was in my sewing room, sewing totes and two crossover shoulderbags for the brocante in juin.

Today i'll show you the indio and shibori bags, more pictures are coming because i made another 5 bags.......

The front

the back

the front

the back

the front

the back

the front

the back

this bag was dyed with brasilwood.

the back

To be continued......

Indigo, a trip around the world 2

More photo's made at the exposition in Paris.
This coat is from China, there are metallic decorations.

A skirt from China.

Detail of the skirt.

Another fantastic skirt from China.

A embroidered jacket from Guatemala.

A wallhanging from Inde;

At least a picture of Christine Legrand's book.

You can still visit the exposition till the 4th of may.

You shall not be disappointed!