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Dreamy Isabel: October 2010

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Thursday, October 28, 2010. About me in a local paper. Labels: the georgia straight. Wednesday, October 27, 2010. Dressing a loom when tired. I was dressing my loom last night for a woven piece that I will be creating for VFW.I know, I know, I'm cutting it close but good things happen when I'm under pressure. I'm finding that preparing for a fashion show. Includes many details that I had never really thought of.like picking music, background projection, accessories, models! Monday, October 25, 2010.

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Itajime Natural Dyes Workshop. I recently taught a wonderful group of women from the Connecticut Handweavers' Guild. How to make silk scarves in the "itajime" technique. We folded and clamped silk scarves with shapes of wood and worked with indigo, marigold, cochineal, chestnut and iron to get lots of color variation. We were blessed with a perfect spring day, and I think everyone had fun and learned a lot. Here are several pictures from our day. Read about it at.

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Last weekend I was able to catch a show called "Surface Appeal:Material Perception" at the Dedee Shattuck Gallery. In Westport MA. I was immediately drawn to several small textiles on the far wall, created by Paula Stebbins Becker. Of RI So interesting and lovely. Here's my favorite. To quote from her artist statement:. Links to Articles for Forward Folding. And the third a posting on World Shibori Network. I took the show down on Saturday, and am back in my studio working on ideas for my next series.

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Itajime Natural Dyes Workshop -  Kate Barber Textiles

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Itajime Natural Dyes Workshop. I recently taught a wonderful group of women from the Connecticut Handweavers' Guild. How to make silk scarves in the "itajime" technique. We folded and clamped silk scarves with shapes of wood and worked with indigo, marigold, cochineal, chestnut and iron to get lots of color variation. We were blessed with a perfect spring day, and I think everyone had fun and learned a lot. Here are several pictures from our day. Read about it at.

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Playing with Pleats -  Kate Barber Textiles

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Being a texture person, I've always loved pleats, and have long thought about exploring the pleating process on loom. I recently joined the Textile Study Group of New York. Join me here for adventures in textiles - weaving, dyeing, surface design and more. Read about it at.

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Taking a workshop at Penland in North Carolina has been on my bucket list for many years, and in October I finally had a chance to go. I took a week-long workshop called "Altered Structures" with Rachel Meginnes. What an amazing week it was! What's on my Loom. Spent last Saturday deconstructing and reconstructing discarded encyclopedias with fiber artist Wendy Wah. L 6 hours of pure play and experimentation felt good. Here are some pictures from our day. Slices of the Landscape. Last week I finished weav...

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Slices of the Landscape -  Kate Barber Textiles

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Slices of the Landscape. I have been cropping landscape photos I've taken - in Exeter, RI, Vancouver, BC and the Badlands - into vertical "slices". While I'm weaving my latest hall runner I'm mulling over how I can do a series of weavings inspired by them. In the meantime, I'm enjoying just looking at them. Join me here for adventures in textiles - weaving, dyeing, surface design and more. Read about it at.

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Finished! -  Kate Barber Textiles

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What Else I've Been Up To. Here are a few other images showing what I've been up to in my studio the last couple of months. Not much rug weaving, but I am determined to get back to that as soon as I can. Mostly playing around with different ideas and getting a few finished scarves out there for sale. What an amazing week it was! Join me here for adventures in textiles - weaving, dyeing, surface design and more. Read about it at.

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Material+Culture -  Kate Barber Textiles

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I've been working on a few new pieces for an exhibit at the Silk Weaving Studio. In Vancouver. The show is entitled "Material Culture" and features work inspired by the beautiful Sanjo Silk. Yarns The scarves are woven with a fine and luscious silk/wool blend with floats of heavier silk/wool which I cut after washing and fulling to create little eyelashes one one side of the scarves. On the other side, little twill squares appear where the floats are tied down. Read about it at.