Tropical Fantasy

This piece of work using another technique of making a fibre background. I used Merino silk tops and laid them on plastic and teased them into swirls and shapes, then soaked the fibres in a wallpaper paste solution. These fibres were then dyed using Procion dyes dripped with a pipette. When totally dried I placed them as background on dyed cotton fabric. I embellished this piece using the heads from silk flowers and bugle beads made from inked paper and dribbled with gold embossing powder.

Size Height 16 inches or 41 cm
Width 12 inches or 31 cm
Price Fifty GB Pounds plus P&P