Shweshwe
I picked up twenty pieces of shweshwe fabric from Mnandi Textiles while in Cape Town. The colors and prints are vibrant and beautiful. I’m not sure how I’ll use these – maybe start with...
Author: Catherine
Back from South Africa
The long slow integration… of my experiences traveling with my ordinary life in Maine. Disorienting. Some reading: An Artist’s Archaeology of the Mind Contemplating mind: Sedimentary (Peter Sacks) A safe haven (Jude Hill) A...
Billboards, Istanbul
A series of billboards near Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, all with layers of advertising partially torn off. A profound source of found art to mine with cropping. Other than this, I don’t know how...
Natural Dyeing with Susanne Grosjean
I had a great time at a workshop on March 9 with Susanne Grosjean of Hog Bay Handwoven Rugs. Here is a sampler of the range of dyes she works with. We had four...
Linked Hinge “Dream†book
The instructions for this Linked Hinge Binding came from Alisa Golden’s website, Making Handmade Books. The structure came to her in a dream! The papers came from my stash of dyed paper made last...
Interlocking Double Accordion
I used instructions from Alisa Golden’s website to make this Interlocking Double Accordion book. The paper came from my stash. I think it is Canson Mi-Tientes. I painted it in a paste paper workshop...
Buttonhole binding
This book is made with paper from my stash, painted with acrylics. The covers are thicker watercolor paper, the guard sheets are cheap Blick drawing paper. The text pages are the Mohawk Superfine text...