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Category Archives: book arts
October Studio
September has passed in a blur of sun, studio-time and a mad race to prepare for the annual studio tour of two weekends. As I have spent most of the post-tour week cleaning up, it occurred to me that you, … Continue reading
Posted in artist books, artist's studio, book arts, indigo, Indigo dyeing, Magnificat, Odilon Redon, Rust dyeing, Rust Printing
Tagged book arts, dyeing with indigo, Eco Prints, Rust Printing
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Rust and Indigo For A Chinese Thread Book
Thanks to the delightful kindness of Kit Tyrrell, one of my blog readers in the UK, I have received two booklets by Ruth Smith about folded books that can contain many compartments. One such book is the Chinese Thread Book … Continue reading
Snow Comes To The Kaleyard
Winter means art indoors and the studio is my refuge. For natural dyeing and eco printing, I use my stash of dried plants, dye powders and whatever fresh plant materials I can find in the fridge or a florist bouquet. … Continue reading
Autumn in the Kaleyard
Kale is another word for cabbage. I learned recently that Scottish “Kailyard” literature displeased the artspeakers of the late Victorian era who found it sentimental and cottagey, not nearly edgey enough, too sweat-blood-and-tears free, so to speak. James Barrie, author … Continue reading
Posted in book arts, dye garden, dye plants, dyeing with native plants, Eco Prints, kaleyard, native plant gardening, native plants, Natural Dyeing
Tagged dyeing with aronia melanocarpa, Dyeing with coreopsis, dyeing with cotinus, dyeing with dogwood, dyeing with purple sandcherry leaves, dyeing with red cabbage, dyeing with sumac, Eco Prints, indigo, iron as dye assistant, Kale, kaleyard
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Works In Progress
Summer Solstice is fast approaching and my garden is almost ready to meet the longest day of the year! It has been a month (and some! ) of long days for me in the new garden. For what is an … Continue reading
Posted in articles, book arts, CBBAG, collagraphs, dye garden, dye plants, native plants
Tagged artist books, book arts, dye plants, eco dyeing
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Blooms, Books and Bylines
Gardening season is finally upon us here in the Frozen North, still only barely unfrozen I am spending most of my daylight hours sorting my new garden and contemplating my options for a redesign that features native plants suitable for … Continue reading
” O, to be in Blogland, now that April’s here…”
Dear Reader, Finally, I feel settled enough in my new house and studio to blog! Let me begin with these words of blessing. (I am also substituting “blog” for “hous” ) Not sayin' that I haven't cursed a bit in … Continue reading
Posted in articles, book arts, CBBAG, dye garden, dye plants
Tagged book arts, book binding, Eco prints on paper
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