Tea - A Fiber Book - page from Helen

 My fiber book in the 2013 fiber book page swap is based on the theme - Tea. I have a long association with tea. The first page I've received is from Helen in South Africa.
The page is made of tea bags stitched onto a shiny voile fabric and there are all manner of teapots inspired by flowers and vegetables attached to the teabags. Its a fantastic page which the photograph doesn't do justice to.  

Helen has sent me a tea bag of organic Rooibos tea to taste. I'll be saving the packet to make a page of different tea bag packets. 

A postcard of Table Mountain. Helen is lucky to get this fantastic view from certain rooms in her home.
Thank you Helen, its the beginning of a great book.

Page for Cobi - Book Page Swap 2013

This is the page I made for Cobi in the Netherlands. The theme - Funky Birds.

Looking for Roy G Biv 2 - Green

The Wenlock downs in Ooty is where the Ooty Gymkhana is.

Hole number thirteen at the Wellington Gymkhana. I couldn't find anyone to explain the Slender Waist or Micheal Green's words. 

 Spinach rice and Goan Prawn curry.

Tunnels of green make the summer heat somewhat bearable when you are out and about. 

Textile Fragment

This long silence was not planned or intentional, it just happened that way.

 

During the long silence I completed this textile fragment. 

I kept it in a pocket in my handbag and took it out to work on when I had to wait anywhere for a prolonged period of time.

It grew with additions of fabric, applique and embroidery until I felt it was complete.

There are pieces of cotton, tussar silk, cotton silk. Cotton which has been block printed, cotton stitched and dyed with tea and silk on which I've experimented with discharge. 

I like to think of it as a textile art boro fabric. 

Looking for Roy G Biv 2 - Yellow

There was yellow waiting to be noticed at every turn this month.

You couldn't help but notice the Golden Shower. Pops of yellow in an otherwise dry landscape as we drove through Bandipur and Mudumalai early in the second week of April. 

Yellow golf balls at the Wellington Gymkhana.

Measuring tape popping out of a student's bag at the textile lab.

A little yellow fish  with only a conch shell for company. This was part of the decor at a men's clothing store where R was shopping for shirts.

Tie and dye samples made by students.

Bright yellow little Nano. The car for the common Indian man from the house of Tata.

I've been busy the past two weeks and didn't get a chance to post on my blog but its all going to get back to normal from next week
See you soon, stay safe.

Book Page Swap 2013

There's a group of us on Stitchin Fingers who are doing a book page swap this year. Each of us has chosen a theme and every month each participant creates a page for another participant on their chosen theme. At the end of the swap each of us will get to compile the pages into a fiber book. My theme is Tea.     

This page is for Shelly whose theme is Vintage Bird.  

Detail of the page which is 8" x 8" and has a pocket on the reverse.

I must draw your attention to a collaborative art project being curated and exhibited by Danish artist Hanne Bang. The art project is called In a War Someone has to Die. Read more about it here or on facebook

I have to go buy a couple of handkerchiefs and get people to do some Malayalam and Tamil translation for me.

Won't you join in and embroider a handkerchief?

Looking for Roy G Biv 2 - Orange

Not much orange that caught my eye this month.

This picture is from my archives. Shot this last month on our way up to the Nilgiris.

The Tigers need to be saved in doing so we save an entire ecosystem. Have you seen a tiger in the wild? I've been lucky to spot a majestic male tiger just once.   

There's a great big flame of the forest by the main gate of the apartment complex where I live and  its in bloom like a lot of the trees in Bangalore at this time of the year . I photographed these fallen blooms on my morning walk.
Strangely both pictures this month have the same paving blocks in them!