Wild Women Textile Arts Group

What a fabulous day we had today making silk paper. We started off with a Textile Taster which was held as part of the Gold Coast City Libraries 11th Avenue Creative program of events. Participants created a piece of sericin silk paper using silk carrier rods, cocoon strippings, cotton gauze and some metallic leaf and used it to make an embellished iPad or sunglasses cover. At the workshop we took this a bit further and used threads, fabric scraps, glitter, angelina, etc to add additional texture and colour. We then played with making sheets of paper with silk tops and textile mediums. Click on the image below to go to the album of photos from the day or to upload a photo of your finished work.

Hi Wild Women, A glorious sunny day, it was time for the great reveal! Two months ago we filled our jars with all sorts of goodies and were challenged to leave them for 12 months. Well I succumbed today. My jar was filled with a potpourri of dupion silk strips, wool and silk yarns and lots of RED ONION SKINS. And the results .... Wet dyed dupion silk Yarns and dupion silks now dried Plum colour of red onion skin dyed silk against background of eucalypt bark dyed cotton I'm really thrilled with the gorgeous pinks and plums. Now what to make? Anyone else fallen to temptation? Carolyn