My best friend, Toshiko, in San Diego worked as a pearl diver at a tourist center.
Pearl diving is a skilled occupation in Japan and has been for hundreds of years. By
coincidence I found a pre ww2 Japanese magazine with a silk screen print of pearl
divers. I made a cloth around it then added embroidery.
Pearl diving is a skilled occupation in Japan and has been for hundreds of years. By
coincidence I found a pre ww2 Japanese magazine with a silk screen print of pearl
divers. I made a cloth around it then added embroidery.
I'm curious ... is the center panel paper or did you print the image onto cloth?
ReplyDeleteIt printed onto cloth then sewn down.
DeleteI love how it feels time-worn ...
DeleteMy reply lost in the air. 'Time worn' is a beautiful,
Deleterich phrase, thank you!
O!, yes....i understand now. All along, watching you
ReplyDeletestitch these wonderFULL thangkas, i wondered where on
this earth you found the incredible central Stories...
YOU CREATE THEM!!!...Brilliant! Love this, love that
it's taken so long to come to know.
Having no electricity, therefore, no way of printing on fabric, it is still so great to know that it is possible
If you'd like I can send you some printed fabric story
ReplyDeletebeginnings? Email?
I love the larger scale print under the delicate picture of the pearl divers, juxtaposed with the ethereal wave stitching. I, too, was wondering where you got the gorgeous central motifs for your collages...now I know. Clever you.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Dana. I'm glad the stitches showed up.
DeleteThey're a try at opening opening the grid. Sewing
is saving my sanity (and marriage) these strange
days.
ah you print onto cloth
ReplyDeletethat is wonderful, as is the result! any advice for me and my book-making efforts?
I use Jacquard cotton ink jet printing Fabric (Dharma
DeleteTrading). The silk hasn't worked for me but may for you.
I think I should Post here what I've learned the hard way (wasting expensive supplies!) I'm loving my dog and
bird earrings!