Bookmarks!

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.