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Making a pigment from a rock
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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
Tassels and embellishments for Vacluse House One of Australia’s most prestigious colonial properties, Vaucluse house in Sydney, has a revamp! We at Passementeries were asked to help in the reconstruction, specifically crafting sixty tassels and three hundred embellishments for the drawing room , all based on original 19th century designs. We reproduced the tassels from original prototypes […]
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
new tools for Vaucluse House When I got the go ahead to work on the new Vaucluse house renovations, the first thing we needed to do was to make some new tools. Part of making tassels incorporates wrapping beads which can either be wrapped horizontally or vertically. Wrapping vertically is done by hand, but horizontally it is virtually impossible to hand […]
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
Gold leaf making in Myanmar Head to Mandalay for gold leaf making. Here, you will find numerous noisy, sweaty and glistening locations. Myanmar gold leaf is handmade in time-honored fashion from 24k gold. In one day a worker at this factory will painstakingly turn 32 grams of gold into about 750 layers of finished sheets of gold leaf. […]
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 […]
How to make Paper Snowflakes
handmade Technique Workshop
How to make Paper Snowflakes I decided this year to make Paper Snowflakes for our Christmas decorations. Simple and fun, but watch out for that dangerous blade. Items required: – Card – Sharp Knife – Metal Ruler – Cutting Board – Double Sided Tape – Scissors – Needle and Thread Cut a rectangle piece of card, two thirds longer than the width. […]