Yoshiko Wada began a silk workshop this morning at 10, inviting students to use old or scrap pieces of cloth to create brand new works of art. Wada focuses her creativity on shibori and dyeing.
Some students began sewing strips and pieces of silk together, creating a collage of overlapping and dissecting shapes, leaving spaces between pieces. They will then encapsulate two semi-transparent sheets of a synthetic material around the larger piece and apply a cornstarchy substance, bonding the enti…
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Posted on April 16, 2009 at 4:30pm —