There’s joy in repetition. In my inked lotus works, each mark becomes a form of meditation when I paint. It is rhythm and stillness intertwined.
The Rhythm of Repetition — where devotion becomes form
handmade Technique
Archive | Technique
How to make a turks head
Technique
A How to make a turks head knot.
Making a pigment from a rock
Technique
Making a pigment from a rock Crushing, grinding, sieving and mulling is how I commence my artwork. For my new series paper is painted with a brush stroke made from a gypsum stone. I crush rock into a pebble and then with a mortar and pestle grind it into a powder, and later a glass […]
tassels and embellishments
for Vaucluse house
handmade Technique Vaucluse House
designing tassels and embellishments for a historical reproduction
weaving a twisted tassel fringe
Technique Vaucluse House
Weaving a twisted tassel fringe Twisted silk threads are woven around a board to create the skirt of the tassels. https://youtu.be/S6EeHT_DVkU
new tools for Vaucluse House
Technique Vaucluse House
making new Passementerie tools
Lotus weaving in Myanmar
Myanmar natural fibres Technique travel
Lotus weaving in Myanmar Lotus weaving on Inle lake in Myanmar. Fabrics derived from lotus fibre are strong, soft and to put it succinctly, it takes a long long time to make one simple scarf. The fabric is a simple weave, either a plane or a twill weave. But it is the thread that is […]
Gold leaf making in Myanmar
handmade Myanmar Technique travel
Glod Leaf making in Myanmar is hard work.
how we make 350 identical Pom Pon’s
Fringe handmade Technique
how we make 350 identical Pom Pon’s It’s very easy to make a pom pon, or so I thought when I was taught by my mother at an early age. She began by cutting two donut shaped pieces of cardboard, then had me wrap them with threads. Wool was the easiest textile to use, as […]
Wrapping Julie’s Christmas cookies for Westinghouse
Packaging Technique Workshop
Christmas wrapping for Julie Goodwin Westinghouse and Julie Goodwin owner of Julie’s Place cooking school has teamed up with stylist, Morrison Polkinghorne. Julie Goodwin made a batch of Christmas chill mango chutney and some Ginger cookies but I was in Myanmar at the time, so Westinghouse especially flew me from Rangoon to Sydney to teach how to wrap […]