new paintings on linen

just a few days now ...

to finish off work and get everything ready for the group show

"St. Ives in Textiles"

we are hanging the show on Friday 16th September

and have a small private view late afternoon on Friday

I have filled a sketchbook with samples relating to the St. Ives theme

17-24 September 2016

"St. Ives in Textiles" - Carolyn Saxby at St. Ives Textiles

Porthmeor Studios, Back Road West, St. Ives, Cornwall

Craft fabrics

These are some of the pre-printed and pre-dyed craft fabrics and cottons that I chose to use in the tropical art quilt to blend in with my own dyed fabrics in the last post

Pre-dyed batik fabric

















Spaced dyed cotton

















Cotton

















Orange gold silk

















Cotton I dyed myself

















Cotton

















Pre-dyed cotton - brown/beige

















Dupion silk in pale yellow

















Cotton

















Cotton

















Cotton

















Green silk

















Olive green sparkly synthetic fabric

















Cotton I dyed with silk paints and salt crystals

Hand Dyed Fabrics

Thinking about my fabrics for the tropical art quilt I experimented with different ways of colouring and dyeing pieces of cotton and calico. These are small samples that I recorded in my sketchbook and include cotton dyed with silk paints and salt crystals, shibori on silk, tie dye on cotton and calico with batik wax trailing and silk paints

Spaced dyed cottons and threads using cold water dyes















Calico with hot batik wax spooned on
Marks made with a fork
Coloured with copper metallic silk paints

















These are early experiments with batik wax
I'm pleased to notice that I've improved the technique
a fair bit since these early samples!













The patterns were made by scratching into the wax with a fork













Cotton dyed and salt crystals added to draw the dye














More dyed cotton with silk paints and salt crystals













Cotton tie-dyed in yellow - I used a Dylon cold water dye















Silk dyed with a shibori resist - coloured with silk paints
















More cotton dyed with silk paints and salt crystals