Flower pounding

Here's a new-to-me craft - flower pounding. You use a hammer to pound the color from plant materials into a special 'prepared for dyeing' fabric which can then be used as a wall hanging or other decorative purpose.

The magic of silk painting

Maggie Ayres talks about the magic of painting on silk.

Thrum knitting

Thrumming is a method of making your knitwear really warm, just what you want for these chilly winter days. It adds thick wads of wool to the inside of the garment, most usually mittens and socks.



You can buy a thrum mitt or sock kit containing yarn, roving and instructions from my friends at Lismore Sheep Farm. If you don't want to make your own, they also sell finished thrum mittens and slippers.

Nuno felting

Gika Rector shows how to make a purse using nuno felting.



Written instructions for this nuno felted purse

Stitching As Mark Making

In today's video, Maggie Ayres talks about how she uses stitching as mark in her work.


I have featured several of Maggie's videos in the past:
Inspiration from digitally altered images
Artists Access to Art Colleges
Texture Without Colour
Maggie Ayres: textile and mixed media artwork

Printing on fabric

This multi-colour printing process uses four wooden blocks to apply ink to a fabric. It's more like rubber stamping than woodblock printing in which the paper is taken to the woodblock.




3 April 2007

Maggie Ayres: textile and mixed media artwork

The thoughts and techniques behind the creation of "Window" by Maggie Ayres. Maggie works with textiles, found objects and photographic images.

Interview with Découpage artist Rebecca Wheeler

Oklahoma artist Rebecca Wheeler has created non-traditional collages of cloth, lace, clothing, fabric flowers, rhinestones and sequins on linen, ranging in size from 12 by 12 inches to 72 by 60 inches. The works in Découpage explore memory, nostalgia, femininity and collective history.