55 yards of silk torn into strips

I’m back to work, for a little while anyway, before I head off for my next trip. Today’s task was turning a bolt of silk into 26 twelve-foot-by-18-inch strips for the installation I’ll be doing in Bellevue. Next step is to sew the strips into tubes so that I can scrunch them on to pvc pipe for a shibori pattern.

My intern, Jesse, is coming to help me at the studio tomorrow. We’ll be dyeing half of the fabric with three colors of blue. I’ve done a number of tests to check the colors and techniques but it’s always a leap of faith to dye so much fabric at once.

Wish me luck!

samples washed and ironed