A folklorist by training, I was diagnosed over twenty years ago, which meant an end to that career. As someone with a lifelong passion for the fiber arts, I knit, crochet, felt, am learning to spin, and began cyanotyping some years ago as a way to put my own images on fabric. Quickly discovering that it’s a lot cheaper to practice on watercolor paper I make a lot of cards and larger works on paper and papyrus. I love cyanotyping tee shirts, which make a great way to wear one of a kind art. I pick leaves in the woods–some of my current favorites are considered weeds, but they make beautiful patterns.
Traditional Japanese kimono fabrics have been a fascination for a number of years (the folklorist in me enjoys learning about their intricate techniques), and I acquired a silk scroll painting with a charming little bird on it. This became the first image I successfully took from photograph to negative to image on paper and fabric. I’ve since found a wonderful resource in the Japanese collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), where I can download high resolution public domain images to use in my cyanotypes.
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A folklorist by training, I was diagnosed over twenty years ago, which meant an end to that career. As someone with a lifelong passion for the fiber arts, I knit, crochet, felt, am learning to spin, and began cyanotyping some years ago as a way to put my own images on fabric. Quickly discovering that it’s a lot cheaper to practice on watercolor paper I make a lot of cards and larger works on paper and papyrus. I love cyanotyping tee shirts, which make a great way to wear one of a kind art. I pick leaves in the woods–some of my current favorites are considered weeds, but they make beautiful patterns.
Traditional Japanese kimono fabrics have been a fascination for a number of years (the folklorist in me enjoys learning about their intricate techniques), and I acquired a silk scroll painting with a charming little bird on it. This became the first image I successfully took from photograph to negative to image on paper and fabric. I’ve since found a wonderful resource in the Japanese collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), where I can download high resolution public domain images to use in my cyanotypes.