tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163005222965012542024-03-21T20:54:07.979-07:00SALLY CAMPBELL TEXTILESI design handmade textiles and have them made by master craftspeople in rural villages of India. My handwoven cotton quilts are reversible, hand-stitched, and machine washable.They are also eco friendly. Like other Western designers working in India, I am helping to keep alive ancient crafts, threatened by factory made products. Part of the profits go back to the villages in Rajasthan and Bengal.Sally Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819250868974862636noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816300522296501254.post-72048540361867297762011-12-31T18:06:00.000-08:002011-12-31T18:06:25.693-08:00NEW YEAR, NEW EXHIBITION<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy New Year everyone....it's all terribly exhausting round this time isn't it. Hope you have been able to pick up your overeaten and overdrunken bodies up from new year celebrations and will hurl yourselves into the new year with gay abandon. Forget resolutions - just get through it without too many dramas I say.</div>
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My schedule is fairly full on at this time of year. Next week I am off to the Northern Beaches for my summer new year show. Always enjoyable. It is a different world on the peninsula. Everyone wears hardly any clothes and operates on African time, permanently blissed out and on holiday. I feel like an urban chic running amok amongst surfers. </div>
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As soon as the beach gig wraps up I am off to the Jaipur literary festival for fun and r and r......then into exciting new work experiences ( i hope) in Bengal and Delhi not to mention all over Rajasthan. Going to India keeps the passion alive and is my permanent textile teacher. When I return in February I hope the ideas will overfloweth and wonderful new pieces will be created. Love to you all and I hope some of you laid back beach bloggers can make the exhibition. </div>
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<br />Sally Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819250868974862636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816300522296501254.post-15794183349141515082011-11-29T16:51:00.000-08:002011-11-29T16:51:07.048-08:00Xmas show<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My Christmas Show</div>
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Its the time of year again and my exhibition is finally happening. I am very excited about it and want all you textile bloggers to come. I have made 4 trips to different parts of India this year designing new quilts, clothes, scarves, cushions and tablewear. Giant hand stitched calico parcels are still trumbling through the door as I write. I have worked with new people in Gujurat from Bhuj. They work with natural dyes and are magnificent tie and dyers and ajrakh printers. From their exquisite fabrics I have scarves, clothing and childrens patchworks. In Bengal I work out in the weaving and stitching villages and from their beautiful work is my new range of handwoven, hand-stitched quilts. In Jaipur I work with Sunny, Meeta and Pintu famous for their natural dye mud resist block printing. I make a range of men's shirts from their delicious printed cottons. Not to mention the great shibori sister team Prabha and Kusum and their amazing indigo designs I cannot resist. From their fabrics I make clothes and patchwork quilts. Also dotted round all these foreign parts are marvellous, shrewd antique textile dealers. I sit and have my tiffin lunch with them while I drool at which fabulous old kanthas or phulkaris. Greg my partner in crime has to deal with all the fierce bargaining. They are all so talented and mostly fun to be with (not mentioning the hiccups along the way). I am constantly stimulated and learning from them. After every trip I am pouring with new ideas. Its the great seduction of heavenly textiles of course. And I am a total addict. </div>
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<br />Sally Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819250868974862636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816300522296501254.post-53834989469111172242011-11-08T17:15:00.000-08:002011-11-11T15:22:52.132-08:00The Desert People of Bhuj<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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While I was working in Bhuj in Gujurat I headed off to explore the desert villages famous for their embroidery. Bouncing along in our jeep we picked up local tribals that squashed in the back with me. Dressed in purple and hotpink turbans,gold and ruby earrings,dhotis and curly toed shoes with chiseled faces and piercing eyes I couldn't stop staring at them and they at me. A riveting experience. And these were just the men.<br />
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The men are shepherds, always looking after their sheep and goats using their crooks to herd them into line as they slowly meander over the road. It is such a pleasure to just follow them at snails pace checking out every detail.<br />
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When we finally arrive at a village taking endless detours the first
person we see is the head woman with her cows. She is a blast of
colour, embroidered head to foot in swirling skirt, jewels, tiaras and
anklets....not to mention the cows with beaded necklaces and horns. She
takes us into the village which are mud and thatched huts on the
outside and inside the walls are sculptured mud designs inserted with
tiny mirrors everywhere. All sublime. <br />
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No electricity or running
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good old gossip with the girls. Some villages are just starting to get
running water and the women don't like it as they are shut up inside
their huts and can't meet and gossip at the well anymore. The
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It was monsoon
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and their light cotton shawls to protect themselves.Flooding regularly causes the mud huts to disappear. Rebuilding damaged huts is always necessary after the monsoon.<br />
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The children, who are drop dead gorgeous, make
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All the beautiful
work in the village is done on synthetic fabric using synthetic threads. They buy
it in the market and it is cheap. For the women to afford cotton
thread and fabric requires an NGO organisation to work
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After being served
delicious tea in saucers we said our goodbyes and the wonderful head
woman, with tears in her eyes, said to the translator I was too short in
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<br />Sally Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819250868974862636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816300522296501254.post-13617194933267918652011-11-06T14:38:00.000-08:002011-11-06T14:38:24.302-08:00Belle's Nomad Champagne launch<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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Yesterday was the perfect sunny afternoon for a champagne book launch. Sibella was signing and selling heaps of her heavenly new book Nomad at her lovely shop Society Inc. Full of exquisite photos by her and her brother Chris Court she brings her inspirations and ideas from her travels to Japan, Syria, Italy and Mexico right back into the home.....showing us with a blink of an eyelid how to make our environment a special world so everywhere the eye rests is a source of stimulation and interest. As the bubbles went to the brain I noticed heaps of people shopping while they gossiped, whether it was a feather xmas ball, miniature wooden limbs or tinsel flags that cash register was going ..........kerchunk, kerchunk, kerchunk.<br />
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<br />Sally Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819250868974862636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816300522296501254.post-90788986100330425442011-10-08T19:55:00.000-07:002011-10-08T19:55:32.951-07:00A caravan of creativity called BelleI feel it is time I wrote about my dear friend Sibella Court who is a constant source of inspiration to me and a squillion others. She fell into my life through our mutual love of textiles and my admiration of her wonderfully talented mother Dee who was a textile queen in her own right. Belle's nomadic life is a whirlwind of twetts, blogging, photographing, writing, workshopping, and designing......the results summersaulting into books, events, interiors and her gorgeous shop Society Inc. Not stopping for a second, in one day she seems to design and decorate a bar for the Hemmes empire, create an event for Moet, launch one of her books and have a workshop on how to create your own interior. All with the confidence of a proud lioness. The next day stopping to breathe for 5 seconds she hops on a plane to begin it all again in another country.<br />
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She spent some time with me in India and I immediately got caught up with her manic world of exciting action. One minute we were at the literary festival,next at the Polo...(where I might add she is particularly glamorous and the press constantly turned their cameras onto Belle rather than the horses)then she is being courted by royalty showing her their latest jewellry collection. She is up at dawn travelling round Jaipur in a hot air balloon and by breakfast time her experiences are being twittered round the world. In between she somehow manages to design a new hardware collection for her shop.<br />
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She has 2 gorgeous girls back in Sydney called Hannah and Leah who hold the fort and are worked to the bone trying to juggle all the events,books and shoots. Thank god they are only 20 and have to be multi taskers in technology and creativity.<br />
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Last week Belle gave a workshop on how to create your own interior from a totally blank room. Attended by at least 100 riveted women Belle managed to paint a wall indigo, add a dado of wallpaper made from draughtmans blue prints,then proceeded to decorate the walls and room with her kind of props....all the time chatting away about which kind of hooks to buy,what type of staple gun to use,which markets to go to,where to buy fab furniture,fabrics and lighting. This week she has managed to design a 6 star luxury resort in the Maldives and celebrate her birthday in Paris.<br />
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<br />Sally Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819250868974862636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816300522296501254.post-69589640862101384062011-09-21T21:20:00.000-07:002011-09-22T19:39:14.462-07:00The Artisans of BhujI have just returned from working in India and managed to escape a bomb, earthquake and flood. All this occurred in 2 days. Caught in the flood our car surfed across the street,narrowly missing stranded cars,cows and camels. Naked street children were laughing hysterically as they leapt onto toot toots to hitch a ride or hurled their bodies into the raging muddy waters. So much was happening in the chaos it was too scary to look out the car window. It seems daily, somewhere in India there is always a catastrophe. All this and we are trying to make it to a meeting on time. All part of the daily working experience, gradually the panic leaves the body and calm takes over.<br />
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Part of this trip was to visit artisans in Bhuj (a desert town in Gujurat). I had put in orders earlier in the year for an exquisite pure indigo tie dyed scarf range and some beautiful ajrakh fabrics. The heat was to be believed but Bhuj was amazing.<br />
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Jabbar Khatri looked after us brilliantly. His natural dyes are magical, not to mention his tiny weeny wonderous tie dye designs.<br />
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Jabbar took us out to the villages and to visit Dr. Ismail Khatri who is the best ajrakh printer in India. It was all a thrill.<br />
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The ajrakh will be made into men's shirts, kurta dresses and beach wraps. Some of his prints are so fine they look like cobwebs. All on handwoven cottons. They will all be selling at my Christmas show in the Shapiro gallery, Woollahra.<br />
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I also visited the exquisite compound of Shamji whose family has been weaving amazing woollen blankets,throws and shawls for generations. Even a hand woven coat for their fridge.<br />
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I have just returned from 2 heavenly spots in Italy .... Sicily and Puglia. And it was a holiday! I had forgotten how to relax and chill. As I drifted from frescos,mosaics, ruins, endless eating and drinking, the inspiration was soaring through my veins. All stresses were washed away in the exquisite transparent aqua waters of the mediterranean. <br />
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One of the dream locations in Puglia was Alistair McAlpine and his gorgeous wife Athena's Il Convento. A 14th century grey stone convent with a brilliantly stylish makeover by Athena and decorated with all the beyond amazing textiles, sculptures and art works Alistair has collected over the years, not to mention thousands of art reference books. Outside are many secret walled gardens, from cactus to English country garden to wild flowers, bonsai and rare plant specimens...a private world of creative chaos and beauty (Alistair's passion for collecting continues). A wonderful local duo of mother and son create daily dishes to die for, and served elegantly in one of the walled gardens. All too much really. I was reeling from one fabulous experience to the next....and had the pleasure of being shown some of Alistair's textile treasures he unearthed from priceless lacquered trunks with handmade indigo covers. 30 years of collecting Japanese boro and Indian kanthas. I cannot imagine anywhere else in the world with such textile treasures. Here are just a few scrumptious photos to wet your whistles.</div>
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</div>Sally Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819250868974862636noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816300522296501254.post-7792760220600378462011-05-04T18:23:00.000-07:002011-05-04T18:23:08.394-07:00NEW QUILTS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
Here are my latest range of new quilts. They all have matching cushions in different sizes. All are reversible and handwoven cotton. Available in king singles and queen sizes. I also have a wonderful new selection of vintage patchworks in pinks,reds,greens and blues.</div>
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<br />Sally Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819250868974862636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816300522296501254.post-12299504215156296992011-03-19T19:52:00.000-07:002011-03-19T19:52:52.554-07:00IT'S MY SALE TIME AGAIN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Every 2 years I have a sale as I find it a must to keep doing new, new, new all the time. Not having a shop means I have to clear out some very lovely textiles to make way for my new designs. Peppered amongst these are a small range of valuable vintage pieces.</div>
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<br />Sally Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819250868974862636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816300522296501254.post-72720180226191785272011-03-02T17:32:00.000-08:002011-03-02T23:46:47.413-08:00Natural Dye Workshop in Bengal<br />
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I have just returned from an amazing week of workshops in
Fulia, Bengal. They were organised
by an incredible woman called Charllotte Kwon from Maiwa Handprints in
Vancouver and sponsored by the talented designer, weaver Bappa Biswas. Charllotte had invited all the artisans she has worked with over many
years to share their problems with natural dyes. Most of the artisans come from different areas of India with variable water quality (too much calcium and magnesium, or high acid content). This affects their ability to achieve perfect results.</div>
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As I work with Bappa he thought it was a good opportunity
for me to improve my knowledge on weaving and dying….and I was very grateful. I
learnt heaps and was honoured to meet such clever people from all over
India. We lived in little huts in
a remote village and my room mate was a wonderfully entertaining girl with a
silk hand weaving company in
Ethiopia. Every night we
told each other stories about our lives to make our hair stand on end.
Charllotte and Bappa had organised everything flawlessly right down to the fab
local cuisine we were served on palm leaf platters.<br />
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We met every day for water and dye tests with a miracle
worker scientist botanist called Michel Garcia from France. His words of wisdom were translated by
about 3 different translators….into Bengali Hindi, Ethiopian and heaven knows
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Other highlights for me were a
shibori workshop with Gale Anderson-Palm on Itajime (an old technique originating in Japan). Gale had us on all fours folding,
clamping, dyeing and tyeing….then endlessly dipping our creations into indigo buckets.<br />
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She was a very special teacher
encouraging all of us individually and not making us feel like fools or being
too self conscious. Her
eccentricities and adventurousness just made you want to let it all hang out
with gay abandon.<br />
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Another huge
treat was meeting the American Shibori weaving expert Catherine Ellis. Her book Woven Shibori is a total
inspiration and watching her work with the weavers was so amazing. Her experiences with weavers around the world has led her to
explore new techniques of weaving, shaping and layering of color with natural
dyes. The weavers couldn’t learn
enough from her, they were having such fun. It must have been so rewarding for Catherine too.<br />
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Hopefully after all the work Charllotte and her team put
into organising the symposium some of the artisans have been able to solve their water and dyeing problems.Sally Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819250868974862636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816300522296501254.post-17880090665983108852011-01-02T16:27:00.000-08:002011-01-02T16:30:50.788-08:00New Year adventures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
Happy New Year everyone....Had such a great time selling my wares at Christmas time. So rewarding meeting people who are so appreciative of handmade textiles old and new. It gives me heaps of incentive to tackle the many hiccups involved working with the wonderous crafts of India. </div>
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On the 16th January I am off to Bengal for a natural dye and shibori weaving workshop. Organised and sponsored by Canadian textile whiz Charllotte Kwon from Maiwa Handprints. Expert dyers and weavers from all over the world are meeting with Indian artisans to compare notes. The artisans invited to the workshop are all master craftspeople working with natural dyes on a regular basis. The purpose of the workshop is to solve dye difficulties, improve water conservation, eliminate waste, explore mordant and dye recipes and to share knowledge. Soooo looking forward to it and feel very privileged to be going. </div>
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<br />Sally Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819250868974862636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816300522296501254.post-52143962362070348702010-11-30T15:03:00.000-08:002010-11-30T15:03:00.995-08:00XMAS EXHIBITION<br />
As we all seem to want new new new all the time, this christmas I have designed a range of reversible handstitched cotton throws. Each one is unique. Available in five different colourways. Hot and calm....Reds,pinks,aquas,blues and autumn shades. Enough variety to satisfy the wildest and most subdued colour obsessives. (see Oct 26 blog)<br />
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In the handwoven,handstitched range I have new arrivals of reversible quilts in red check patchwork,stone and burgandy,blue checks and red stripes. Also handwoven large body towels in red and navy stripes.<br />
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Superb special vintage pieces from Bihar, Bengal and Rajasthan handstitched kantha, silk Phulkari and Shekawhati ebroidery.<br />
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There is also the clothing range. Handwoven finest cotton kurta dresses,silk georgette spotted dresses,delicate white voile nightdresses,gingham pj's. Heaps of others and lots of luscious discounts.<br />
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Fab presents...sarongs to die for, vintage and new...tie dye,shibori,block prints and handweaves. Scarves in silks and cottons, handstitched purses and bags. It's all there so no more worries what to buy who for christmas.<br />
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This time my cushions are made from vintage fabrics sourced from India,China and Japan. Hand-stitched, appliqued and patched. Squares, rectangles, oblongs in all sizes.<br />
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<br />Sally Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819250868974862636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816300522296501254.post-4931877962751013122010-11-20T22:41:00.000-08:002010-11-20T22:41:05.924-08:00Collage of old sailsRecently I was approached by a gentleman who is a well known sailor and collector of boats and anything nautical. He had the inspiration to make a collage out of his collection of old sails and wondered if I could help design a wall hanging. <br />
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My inspiration was Japanese boro ( above) and I felt this method could be applied to scraps of beautifully textured parchment pieces with fabulous red stitching, layers of rust and copperised rings attached to ancient rigging. All hand sewn by a master sail maker and voila we had a fabulous textile to hang on his wonderous penthouse wall. <br />
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A great experience made all the more enjoyable by working with a client who has such a passion for the beauty of objects weathered by the sea.<br />
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<br />Sally Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819250868974862636noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816300522296501254.post-8320164062912312692010-10-26T22:08:00.000-07:002010-10-26T22:08:58.298-07:00LATEST COLLECTION ! HAND-STITCHED QUILTS, THROWS<div>
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<br /></div>Sally Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819250868974862636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816300522296501254.post-41930664806151861612010-08-28T19:29:00.000-07:002010-08-28T19:37:42.190-07:00Organising a wedding tent<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Have just returned from yet another wonderous trip to India. <br />
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While there I had a frantic text message "could you please find an amazing tent for a 50th birthday celebration.... in 10 days". I immediately phoned my great trader friends in Jaipur for an instant vintage wedding tent. They were up for the challenge and called their tailor who cycled in from his village to commence work on the 12 metre x 6 metre tent. He worked night and day, sewing together endless exquisite vintage applique panels and completed the tent in 5 days. 71 kilos all rolled into a giant bundle of bubble wrap and couriered express beyond express. A vintage sari and turban followed, of course, to complete the maharajah and maharani celebrations. I must say it was all rather nervewracking and I was totally thrilled it was so appreciated. Couldn't have been done without mobile phone, photos, e-mails and texting....all done in 98% humidity and 35 degree heat, not to mention monsoon floods as the car floated across the street.<br />
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Here are some photos of the tent erected in pre party decor mode.....<br />
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<br />Sally Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819250868974862636noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-816300522296501254.post-22475742846845563542010-07-18T15:17:00.000-07:002010-07-22T21:15:49.776-07:00The Wonderful world of Tie-Dye - Vintage and Modern<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I am crazy about tie - dye ...whether it comes from India, Japan or Africa those tiny dots just do something to me. The technique on fine cotton, silk or handmade paper works wonders, specially in natural dye. The tinier the dots</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">the more amazing the skill. Indian tie-dye known as bandhani seems to always be some sort of dot design whereas Japanese shibori has lots of graphic circles,squares and lines on indigo. Intricate tie-dye is expensive as it is such a time consuming task.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><br />
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This is another fine example of indigo tie-dye, one sample quilt only. Patched and cotton filled.</div>
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I purchased 6 metres of exquisitely tie dyed indigo tussar silk and designed 2 simple pintuck tunic dresses. Selling price $595.00 <a href="mailto:sallyruthcam@ozemail.com.au">Contact me</a> direct for purchase enquiries.</div>
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Here are three fine quality cotton voile sarongs...2 metre lengths, all with different tie-dye designs. Priced at $110.00</div>
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Vintage tie-dye is quite wonderful for its tiny superior dots and scrumptious faded vegetable colours. The art of dying seems to have blown in the wind, not to mention the hot pinks,orange and reds. These are very hard colours to achieve. A dying artform. I am always on the look out for old cotton muslin turbans and soft cotton shawls so I can make sarongs and cushions. Following are 3 amazing examples of electric pinks,oranges and reds in minute tie dye on cotton muslin. I made them into 2 metre sarong lengths and voila an instant "to die for" outfit. Selling for $125.00 each</div>
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I found an old Rajasthani tie dyed shawl in heavenly faded ochre shades and made this cushion and a couple of bolsters. I am thrilled with the results. $125.00 cushion 60 x 60cm. $85 for a 60 x30cm bolster.</div>
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And so ends my first blog on tie dye. I am off to India any minute to brave the monsoon,heat and dust to continue my endless rampage for wonderful textiles. </div>
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