Miyuki Beads

Enhancing my designs with high quality embellishment is something which I am eager to incorporate within my work, as it only serves to enhance the impact and lavish exuberance of my fabrics. As well as hand painting with Selectacine Metallic gold powder, I also chose to hand bead some designs with Japanese glass Miyuki beads, which represent the pinnacle in innovative manufacture and superb craftsmanship.

For more information on these high quality, truly beautiful beads visit the Miyuki website:

http://www.miyuki-beads.co.jp/english/

Sanctus Strix

After days of careful, meticulous printing with Illuminate Acids, Discharge and Selecticine metallic powders onto pongee silk (dyed with my own recipes of Procion MX) I now have some finished scarves which I am satisfied with.
The scarves feature my two halo owl designs specially designed for scarves. I combined different techniques in a variety of ways to make each scarf unique, experimenting with layering different chemicals, and using different strengths of discharge to achieve varying effects.

Some images of the scarves so far:

My new favourite technique ...

As a self confessed print obsessive I have definitely developed a new favourite technique in the current project; Expanding puff binder. Its fun, has a lot of wonder and excitement (if your a sad obsessive printer like me)and the outcome can be very effective. I'm so enthusiastic about it, I filmed my work on the steam press, Expansion in action!: