Studio Saturday

Continuing with the new shapes - cutting the sinamay -

 Here's the result of the first batch, stitched by machine (mainly) -

 The dress has a "zip" up the back -

 One limitation to the size is being able to reach in...

 Another limitation is the size of the dipping container. The next experiments will include some two-stage dipping.

Using metallic fabric, and some wire from my collection of unravelled Rioja-bottle wire (what a good excuse to buy wine - "I need the wire") -

Playing with scraps of sinamay -

The state of the studio - the books are information about kilns and firing, as we set up the little kiln -

 The shelves have had their coating of batt wash, and the chimney needs attaching. The test firing needs some pots in the kiln, and I don't seem to have any ready, just more and more of the sinamay prototypes -

Those were made this morning; now I'm off to the studio to be productive.