Handmade paper

 Handmade paper

I'm making paper again: printer paper, daffodil's flower, and nettle's leaves. Then, I added color with beetroot and turmeric. Maybe they will become cards or handmade books.

 

 

#handmadepaper #recyclepaper #ecodyeing #recycledpaper #bowls

 
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Tiny scape

I participate in the #52tagshannemade (with Anne Brooke, https://www.annebrooke.co.uk/)

For the 15th week, the theme was "Tiny scape."

I made a Pacific island view from the sky. Cotton, gauze, tiny shell, French knot.

 detail

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Treasured Places

I participate in the #52tagshannemade (with Anne Brooke, https://www.annebrooke.co.uk/)

For the 14th week, the theme was: Pocket, favorite place, and treasures. I chose Quebec, Canada.

A few years ago we went for a one-month trip backpacking with my husband. We didn't have too much space to bring "treasures" other than great memories and digital pictures.  It's a beautiful country and we met lovely people.

We hope we'll go again to discover other regions.

 
This tag gave me another idea, to make a handmade book about the different places where I have been or lived, that marked an important time in my life. I have already lived in about 32 places without counting house-sitting while traveling.

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Interbeing, big cloth

April 2020

While finishing a quilt border, I have these little pieces/stash, no wasting...keep them for 'Interbeing'. Mini cloth weaving, and one more spiral.

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Stitching meditation: Interbeing

Interbeing

The suggested replacement word for the verb "to be," coined by Vietnamese Buddhist Monk and scholar Thich Nhat Hanh. It means to inter-dependently co-exist. The meaning of interbeing recognizes the dependence of any one person or thing as to all other people and objects.

Not only is no man an island, but rather his interbeing is shared with the plants and animals he eats, the people who make his clothes and food, the people who populate his home, country and the very world he perceives, the insects that pollinate the trees that yield his fruit, shade him from the sun and provide lumber for his house.

I wanted to use samples of dyeing that I didn't know what to do with. All different tries of indigo, madder, and many other leaves, and plants I made during the last few years.

The idea is to work only with a neutral linen thread. Maybe it'll change...

Running stitches. Straight lines or circles, maybe spiral.

It's my first big piece, right now is 24'' x 24'' (60 cm x 60 cm), but I think I'll still adding small pieces. 

Normally, I don't use an embroidery hoop for stitching meditation, but because of the size of this piece, I find that working with a hoop is easier.

Starting with a spiral from the center out...

The spiral keeps connecting all the different pieces. 

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Slow stitching on Indigo 2

4 more Indigo dyed, slow stitching, appliqued, eco-dyeing, and eco-printing.

encore 4 teinture Indigo, couture lente, appliqué, éco-teinture et éco-impression.

Indigo 6 (13 cm x 24.5 ) 5'' x 9

Indigo 7 (21.5 cm x 18 cm) 8.5'' x 7''

Indigo 8 (21.5 cm x 24cm)  8.5'' x 9.5''

Indigo 9 (19 cm x 41 cm ) 7.5'' x 16''

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Slow stitching on Indigo

Eco-dyed, eco-printed, and slow stitching. Finished 5, and I have 4 more waiting...

Eco-teinture, éco-imprimées et couture lente. Fini 5, et j'ai 4 plus en attente ...

Work table, January. 2020

Indigo 1 (25 x 15 cm) 10.5 '' x 6''

Indigo 2 (26 x 23 cm) 10.5'' x 9''

Indigo 3 (24 x 19 cm) 9.5'' x 7.5''

Indigo 4 (2) (14.5 x 24cm) 5.5'' x 8''

Indigo 5 (15 x  25 cm) 6'' x 10'' 

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The Fairies' Labyrinth

A fairytale, a true story, it's up to you. Nothing is impossible for those who believe in it.

Handspun and eco-dyed yarns. I had woven the mandala, and I decided to use this picture as a cover for my fairytale, "The Fairies Labyrinth." 

Here, you can read the story for free:

https://issuu.com/patricia.valentini/docs/_the_fairies__labyrinth___november_2019

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Sunbonnet Sue, “Watering” - "En train d'arroser."

Sunbonnet: “Watering.”

Sunbonnet: "En train d'arroser." 

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"Honoring Earth" 3 'Seed' - "Honorer la Terre" 3 'Seed'

"Honoring Earth" 3 'Seed' (26cm x 15cm - 10" x 6"): Pieces of 'failed' eco-dyed cotton and linen: eucalyptus, tea, campeche; embroidery and linen thread, birch's twig and a found seed from my garden.

 «Honorer la Terre» 3 'Seed' (26cm x 15cm - 10" x 6"): Morceaux de coton et de lin d'eco-teintures 'échouées': eucalyptus, thé, campeche; broderie et fil de lin, brindille de bouleau et une graine trouvée de mon jardin.

 

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Coiled Bowls

I find this work of making coiled bowls as a new way of stitching meditation.

Je trouve ce travail de faire des bols comme une nouvelle façon de méditation avec la couture.

 raffia and Birch's twig

raffia and pine needles

 

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"Honoring Earth" 2 - "Honorer la Terre" 2,

"Honoring Earth" 2, 'Leaf' (33cm x 24cm - 13" x 9"): eco-dyeing and eco-printing on different kind of reused linen, slow stitching with embroidery thread and linen. Birch's leaf appliqued. 

"Honorer la Terre" 2, 'Feuille' (33cm x 24cm - 13" x 9"): éco-teinture et éco-impression sur différents types de lin réutilisé, coutures lentes avec fil de broderie et de lin. Feuille de bouleau appliquée. 

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Coiled bowl

My first coiled bowl: raffia, and hemp. Not perfect, but I love it!

Mon premier 'bol enroulé': du raphia et chanvre. Pas parfait, mais j'adore!

 

 

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Bowls

Sometimes, my first passion calls me back, and I accept her invitation...

Parfois, ma première passion me rappelle et j'accepte son invitation...

The lake

detail

earth and clouds

colored clay

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Remember, you too are Children of the Stars- Souvenez-vous, vous aussi vous êtes les Enfants des Etoiles.

Here my latest work, deeply inspired by reading the Sidhe books.
"Remember, you too are Children of the Stars."

Voici mon dernier tableau textile, profondément inspiré par la lecture des livres sur les Sidhe.
"Souvenez-vous, vous aussi vous êtes les Enfants des Etoiles."

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Experimenting with natural dyeing - Expérimenter avec les teintures naturelles

1/10/2018

While cleaning and arranging a forgotten drawer, I found a few boxes with small pockets with flowers, seeds, and bark to use as incense. I decided to try them for dyeing. So, I make small cotton bags and mordanted them with Symplocos.

Pendant un nettoyage et une organisation d'un tiroir oublié, j'ai trouvé quelques boîtes avec de petites pochettes avec des fleurs, des graines et des écorces à utiliser comme encens. J'ai décidé de les essayer pour la teinture. Donc, je fais des petits sacs en coton et je les ai mordancés avec Symplocos.

 

I put the seeds-bark-flowers inside and put to boil in different jars for 1 hour, then leaving it to cool down.

A 2 ° saucepan, pots N ° 9-15, I left the fabric bags in pots over the night, before heating and boiling the water for 1 hour.

 J'ai mis les graines-écorces-fleurs à l'intérieur et mis à bouillir dans différents pots pendant 1 heure, puis j'ai laissé refroidir.
Dans la 2° casserole, les pots n° 9-15, j'ai laissé les tissus dans les pots toute la nuit avant de faire chauffer et bouillir l'eau pendant 1 heure.

1-8

9-1

pan 1, after 1 hour boiling

pan 2, after 1 hour boiling

Here are the dyed pouches.
Voici les pochettes teintées.

1 - 8 samples

9 - 15 samples

I don't know exactly what I'm going to make with these samples, maybe a fabric book. I'll see later.

Je ne sais pas exactement ce que je vais faire avec ces échantillons, peut-être un livre de tissu. Je verrai plus tard.

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