Two and a Half Wonderful Days of Felting and Dyeing!
Monday was a great day - Sunny and the daylilies were Blooming with color!
We were able to get started the next day with getting our designs laid down. With this process, you work in reverse. In other words what you lay down first is what is seen first.
The wool that we use in laying out the rugs are naturally dyed by Mehmet in his studio in Konya, Turkey. A great palette - and it can be further extended by carding colors together.
Not everyone worked on the floor! Here's some more layouts
Laying out the design took all of the first day....and into the next. Some folks were able to finish on the first day - but mine took forever with lots of detail! Here is mine getting ready to get rolled up to start the felting process.
The next day meant it was time to move from design to workout! Felting on the table to felting on the floor (kicking and rolling.)
We were doing some natural dyeing all throughout. Here are some of the colors we got.
Aubergine, Weld exhaust, Weld with additions to get gold, oak mordant overdyed with indigo, both Welds overdyed with indigo, indigo - no mordant, indigo with mordant, indigo with multiple dips and additions to deepen color.
And after all the hard work! Here are most of the rugs!
and last, but not least:
This is my rug - an interpretation of Klimt's Tree of Life.
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Love that msn, neat website. Have a super day….
Thanks!!
It was so much fun ! Babs your rug is great!You were not yet finished when I left. Cant wait to get samples of all those great natural colors.
Awesome! So worth the aches to learn a new fiber skill and end up with a rug/hanging to treasure! The workshop deepened both my appreciation and obsession! We all ended up with such different designs and yet we all ended up with a quality piece to be proud of…Memeht and Theresa are deeply skilled and that allowed us to jump in and trust a process we were all unfamiliar with. I know I can’t wait to try again! Bab’s studio is surrounded by beauty and was a fantastic space to work in. Check out her rug!!! Hi to all who participated- what a great group! Thanks to Memeht and Theresa and Babs for a great workshop!