I have to admit, i got a bit jealous with all the great results my students got out of their shibori project and it made me itchy to do some of my own experiments. Spring Break provided a great opportunity to step into the dyeshop while everyone was gone and explore ( Read more... )

We have had some blizzards and ice storms in the past couple weeks which did wind up causing production delays for both our mainstage show and my grad students' projects. (It's hard to work on something when you can't leave the house to get to the facility to use the equipment to do the project...) So, the two remaining students completed their ( Read more... )

We've finished the first part of the graduate level dye class i teach, in which we cover the science portion of the subject (different classes of dyes and which fibers they work on, how the processes differ, how to discharge dyes/"color remove," etc.). We're now moving into the section that students usually find more fun, because it covers the ( Read more... )

My dye class has just presented their shibori projects, in which they choose a technique and a type of fabric, then must execute the technique on yardage with the proper type of dye for their fabric. The results have been just fantastic!

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I'm abroad in the UK for the next month for research, scholarship, and fun, and I'm taking the opportunity to check out lots of museums and galleries while I'm at it. Anything relevant I'll share here, and more general travel journaling is happening in my travel blog.

Last week I visited some friends in Manchester, where I also got to see some of ( Read more... )

I haven't mentioned the class i'm teaching this semester yet, because it's all been technical projects so far dealing with the chemistry of different classes of dye, creation of Testfabric multifiber swatch books, color wheels and so forth. But, we've finally moved onto the more artistic section of the class, the units on surface design, so i have ( Read more... )

My dye class students have finished their shibori projects (the ones i posted some teaser photos of the other day), and boy, did they turn out some cool stuff ( Read more... )

I've been pretty busy this past week, working on some hat mockups for Pride and Prejudice (which, i might post some photos of later...dunno if mockups are very exciting viewing though?) and spending evenings over at Duke working with Basil Twist on puppetry and other effects for their production of Ionesco's Exit the KingMy dye class students are ( Read more... )

I think i've mentioned that i break my dye class down into three sections--dye chemistry/color theory/color-matching/dyeshop safety, surface design, and distressing/aging. They're about to move out of the first section (which doesn't yield much "fun" stuff for the blog) into surface design ( Read more... )

Okay, so this is really just a teaser post--we've got a ways til we open yet, so i don't have a whole lot that i can share, but i've got a couple photos of some things coming through my workspace....

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