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Category Archives: Inspirational Source Material

Traditional Chinese Paper and Bamboo Kite

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Last week, I experimented with making a kite in the style of a traditional bamboo and paper, Chinese model. I was working from the one photo I was able to take of my friend’s kite before her dog ate and destroyed it. I think the lightness, colors, design, size and shape are amazing. Splitting the [...]

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Scouting

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Finding that Los Angeles is surrounded by gorgeous landscape, subtle and severe. I’ve been looking for places to set up and shoot my product line, and took a trip out to the poppy fields near Lancaster. Dust and wind shook the sages and tugged the poppies. The horizon looked frosted and minty. Driving home through [...]

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Everything looks better at dusk.

Monday, April 9, 2012

And back lit! Here are another series of photos from my exercise in tent raising this weekend. I love the texture and lines that are created by the way the warp threads have grouped themselves together as I’ve worked the material over time.  

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Witches and Indigo

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Ramping up for a photo shoot of my products that I’ve been working on and selling on etsy. I wanted to create an environment that reflects the idea of what I’m working with for concept and materials. This is going to be part of one of the sets for the shoot. I’m planning a trip [...]

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New Mallet

Friday, March 23, 2012

I’ve been reading up on calendaring indigo dyed fabrics in this great book “Imprints on Cloth : 18 years of Field Research among the Miao People of Guizhou, China.” A common thread between the works of many different communities is a calendaring stage, where the fabric is pounded and smoothed with a big wooden mallet, [...]

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