#raw silk

[andrewvehansen]

Quilting Process: Behold My Beauty and Weep

I just finished a quilt and figured I might as well blog about the process I went through to create it. Please feel free to reach out with any questions! I belong to the Brooklyn Quilters Guild and ever since the COVID pandemic, we’ve been holding small outdoor quilt shows where we hang our quilts on the rod-iron fence that surrounds the block where we have our monthly meetings. Check out our…

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[mackpaintsart]

Cyanotype and raw silk

[professorpski]

...every time I have bought something because it was a sensible purchase, I have worn it very little; whereas my irresistible impulses, which seemed sheer folly at the time, have usually been amortized very rapidly.

So wrote Madame Genevieve Antoine Dariaux in 1964 in her book Elegance, and when I read use this passage, I thought of a brown early fall suit I had made. I loved the 1950s swing jacket pattern, but I got a sensible, and dull looking cotton polyester blend to make it in--I know, what was I thinking? That it would wash? -- and the results are, well, bleh.

If I had made it out of a raw silk or some other fabric with a little texture, I think I would love, wear it a lot, and not mind the dry cleaning bills at all. In fact, I have already been pondering how I will rip out the Bemberg rayon lining and make just such a thing.

To irresistible impulses!

[alexsrandomramblings]

Wild silk is interesting to spin because it's not as soft or slippy as the domestic stuff. Certainly easier to spin for those same reasons though. Plus all the colors that it naturally occurs in.

[vandafineclothing]

Textured stripes of all sorts for S.B. and S.W.

Thank you both for your support 🙏🙏🙏

[newtribetextiles]

I’ve been working on so many things at once, I forgot to share the beginnings of the first custom of the year. Though my shoulder is still not quite right sometimes, it’s feeling good.

[elbesoie]

via raw silk

[etsyfindoftheday]

etsyfindoftheday | 7.14.19

hand-loomed silk summertime fashions by faraboutiques

zen dress // black silk with open back

dhoti trousers // auburn silk harem pants