The following is a report from Carole Sams – our Joint Chairman.
The devore workshop was a delightful day, Dionne Swift is a gifted textile artist and a proficient instructor. Much of the successes we all had was down to Dionne being very well organized and good at keeping the group focused and working all the time.
We had a choice between making a scarf or doing some samples, I chose the samples (it all helps for my City and Guilds).
The day started with everyone completing a sample utilizing a simple design and using the devore paste on a screen print frame, the velvet was dried, heated under a press then put into water to rub the treated pile away, later in the day the fabric was dyed.
We then went onto our final piece and I was delighted with my samples; however some of the scarves produced were absolutely stunning with lots of ‘oohs and aahs’ as they came out of the buckets of dye. Dionne told us we were her last Saturday group as she intends to spend future weekends with her family so we posed in the rain for a photo to go onto her website. We had a lovely day playing and ended up with some fabulous scarves and samples as you can see.
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