Moving towards designing.

I have been working on my contribution of dyed fabric for our collaborative piece. Here is a picture.
They are both cotton sateen, the one on the left, has been dyed with a very pale indigo blue and then tied with cocktail sticks, starting with a large one and gradually working down.
The one on the right has a flour paste resist pattern, that has been dyed with ferrous sulphate and then tannic acid, the left hand side has been dyed with indigo followed by weld to give the green colour. Finally I painted some ferrous sulphate and then taanic acid down both sides.
They are both about 3 feet long.

The others who have come to the dyeing days have some lovely fabrics, I can't wait to see them all together in January. I have started to get some ideas about designs, I hope the others have too.

There is a very interesting exhibition at the RA at the moment, EARTH Art of Climate Change, it has work by a number of well known artists, Anthony Gormley, Mona Hatoum as well as some new artists. Tracey Emin has some embroidered textiles. Some are very beautiful and when you look more closely disturbing. Like Yao Lu's work. At first sight it looks like a classical Chinese ink painting, but when you look more closely you can see that the mountains are actually mounds of rubbish covered with green protective nets. His work is very clever and speaks of the radical changes affecting modern China.