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I was genuinely surprised to receive two books from my Amazon Wishlist this past Monday. Whoever it was enclosed a thanks for the recent Japanese inspired patterns along with a request to keep them coming. (Talk about positive feedback!)
Whoever you are, thank you very much! There will be more patterns coming over the next weeks to be sure. I know it has been quiet here lately as I have been working on two other projects. One is a web site for a local store, the other is identity design for my wife’s soon–to-be-established business. Add to this my own dying and textile design along with spending as much time as possible with my son and I seem to be running out of time each day for making an occaisional quick—or not so quick—posting.
Fortunately the store’s web site is almost finished, and my wife’s business now has it’s identity work established (though eventually she will be wanting a web site as well) so it’s back to a much more normal routine.
In related news—textile design and patterns—I have been asked to teach a class in shibori dyeing this summer, so I will be working on setting up some handouts and general history which I will preview here over the next months I imagine.
Oh, the books were Color: A Natural History of the Palette and Nature’s Art Box and yes, my generous friend, “Nature’s Art Box” is actually for my son (well the whole family, but mostly for him), so once again a big thank you from all of us!