Sunday, July 10, 2011

New book finish and Suminagashi

Two needle coptic and celtic weave
Latest book finish.  Attempted celtic weave from Keith Smith book, #?.   They recommended to start off with only celtic weave at the top and bottom to keep it manageable.  I still had 7 threads and 14 needles going as I worked from the front to the back.  It is nicely tensioned, but I didn't get the weave exactly correct.  The white and dark are supposed to alternate and they are adjacent in a couple of rows. 


Floating ink on water, magic!
This one is full of vintage prints and my block
Sample pages
prints!  Very special!




Two color




Suminagshi workshop

TeaBAG workshop this month was Suminagashi.   Japanese marbling with inks floating on water.  Love this technique and the variety of the results.  Forgot to take photos of all the finished pages.  Some of mine are here.  We had a variety of papers to work with and one of the coolest was brown paper from grocery bags. 

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