Composite

You know the trouble with memory is that sometimes you misplace it. Forgive me if I've posted something similar before. I've been gathering some images tonight and thought I'd finish a composite of scarf details that I started some time ago and that shows the wide variety of marks that can be made with shibori rusting. You may recognize some of the designs or colors from past posts. The blues were created with elderberries. One blue piece in the center also has some yellow created by turmeric. The rest is just the the usual rust and tea with whatever tannin I had handy.

Accidentally on Purpose

Mark making is drastically altered when I get sloppy. I'm fleeing the vertical stripes of careful folding. Here are 4 details of the same piece resulting from the fabric at left before wrapping. Whole piece is 10 feet long, silk dupioni. Just wrapped another piece tonight with more haphazard folds. Humidity is 56% and it's in the 70s now. Tomorrow will be 98. A relief from the 100+ days we've been having in the midwest. Rusting will not break any time records as before, and at any rate I plan to push this one.