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Saturday February 16, 2008
Ply-Split Braiding
I have just returned from the Creative Fibres February workshop, where I turned this:
Into this:
The flower is double layered, when finished, but I was too busy nosying into other people's work to finish my own. Ply-split can produce many forms, including bowls, necklaces, booklet covers - and, of course, camel girths(!). Here is Brenda holding up an original camel girth:
The work is very finely worked from goat hair, giving a coarse texture - a bit like carpet:
My preference is for the flat work (in linen) rather than the more artistic shaped work. It makes really good bags, spectacle cases etc. Sandy specialises in bags - her current opus is a bag for a computer notebook, (you can see it on the table farthest from the camera). Here is some of her work:
Finally - a bit of fun artwork from Sandy - a cup of tea with teabag in cup, and Battenburg cake.
Posted by Christina at 5:04 PM. Category: Spinning, Dying, Weaving
