It’s a tiny little collection, but I am really excited about these paired prints in three different colorways. I am teaching a class and participating in a weekend festival thing celebrating sustainable design. The workshop I am teaching is about preserving vintage or sentimental textiles by scanning and digitally printing them to create new heirloom or everyday pieces with special meaning. (I will share registration info as soon as I have it) In class we are going to work with bits of vintage lace and fabric scraps as the start for the design. Part of the festival has a boutique and we are welcome to sell some work. The focus is really on wearable pieces, which I really don’t make much for anyone else, but I said I would have some fabric to sell.
I also had a secondary goal. These are both prints based off of photographs. (Really!) I have lots of pretty obvious photographic prints in my work and I wanted to push that a little bit to have some samples and show people that photos don’t have to look photographic or “photo real”. These (to put it very simply) have been converted to black & white and recolored and had some filters applied to smooth and simplify the basic shapes. You are seeing them at about 50% scale. I think I am going to sell them in 1/2 yard pieces bundled together, so you get the two coordinating prints and then have some postcards with instructions for how to order larger yardage if you want it.
What do you think they started out as? I want your guesses! I will post the “answers” with starting photos tomorrow.
Does it count as an answer that I have no clue how these designs started? But I will make some wild guesses: Trees on left and lace on right??? Or is this more lichens? I am beginning to see Winnie the Pooh in the design on left.
Now when are you going to reveal the secret?