Eclectic Echoes

Grape Fizz

I found a couple of leads for galleries and stores to carry the silk scarves, now I have to get busy on them. The more labor involved ones will go mostly into the gallery and the ones that take less manipulation time will go mostly into stores that the towns visitors frequent. I will keep a mix in each place but I think prices of the scarves will work in my favor if the more expensive ones are mostly in the galleries. I’ll have to order business cards now. I have been including a nice folded card with each scarf with info about the general techniques I use on one side of the inner card and any motif and technique details about the particular scarf on the other side. For instance Emerald Kikkō’s card had the symbolic information for the kikkō motif along with the shibori method used to execute it (itajime).

The “onsie” above is one from a package of three I found from when my son was born. I hadn’t even opened it up. So a few weeks ago I went ahead and dyed all three with Cibracon F dyes to see how they dye out. This one I call Bubbles, but when I was looking at it just now it reminded me of the bubbles in a grape fizz drink. The design is executed using a very tightly wound bai (shell) shibori. It is almost a hon hitta kanoko (dots within squares) motif, except that I didn’t fold each section of cloth before binding to give the square shape of hon hitta kanoko. In effect it is a mix between hon hitta and bai as it does not have the very open, loose spiral binds of bai either. Shortly I will be doing a custom order for a woman’s cotton-knit, long sleeve, fitted t-shirt in the same pattern but with smaller motifs and a different color scheme.