Sensational Silk

This past weekend we were lucky enough to have local silk artist Isabella Whitworth come and host a workshop for us. The technique used was similar to tie & dye and is called Shibori. Here is how we got on.

 
Isabella explained what we were going to do....

 
then the silk peices were stretched out , twisted tightly..........

 
and bound tightly with waxed string.

 
Then came the fun part of beginning to drop the ink onto the little segments created by the string.

 
An aray of colours were used on each scarves, to suit individual tastes.

 
They were then wrapped in foil parcels and Isabella took them home to steam them for 2 hours.

 
Then on Tuesday we had the grand unveiling. Even Dave the dog came to watch as the string was cut and the unravelling began.

 
Tah dah!

 

 

 

Everyone was very impressed & its definitely one we'd do again.