I love books, and there's no reason why books can't contain my art! Here are my latest set of bookmarks. On all of them, I have done a zigzag stitch on the sides and allowed the ends to fray rather than seam them. This is so they will lie flat in a book.
Pleat-resisted and dyed, glue resisted and painted with dye.
Pleat resisted and dyed, glue resisted and painted with dye.
Scrunch resisted and dyed, glue resisted and painted with dye.
Tie-dyed, glue resisted and painted with dye, block printed with textile paint.
Painted with dye, glue resisted and painted with dye again.
Pole-wrapped and dyed, glue resisted and painted with dye.
Pole-wrapped and dyed, glue resisted and painted with dye, block printed with textile paint.
Tie-dyed, glue-resisted and painted with dye, block printed with textile paint.
Pleat-resisted and dyed, glue resisted and painted with dye, block printed with textile paint.
Tie-dyed, glue resisted and painted with dye.
Pleat-resisted and dyed, glue resisted and painted with dye.
Pleat-resisted and dyed, glue resisted and painted with dye, block printed with textile paint.
Painted with dye, glue resisted and painted with dye again.
Pleat-resisted and dyed, glue resisted and painted with dye, block printed with textile paint.
Pleat-resisted and dyed, glue resisted and painted with dye, block printed with textile paint.
In other news, I have been working on a piece that I'm very proud of. I don't have a photo of it yet but I'll try to get it up as soon as I can. I wrote part of Proverbs 31, which is about the Wife of Good Character. It's a verse that is used by both feminists and complementarians, or people who believe that men and women have separate roles. I use the feminist interpretation, which I take to mean that the ideal wife is economically independent and has a good work ethic. It's my first sort of political work, and it was fairly labor intensive so I'm going to have it as a wall hanging rather than a placemat. I don't want to be making four of these, unless they are a series for a gallery or something.