Dyeing Archives - Rasa Mauragis

Stitching at virtual conference

SAQA 2020 MOSaiQA Virtual Conference I had the perfect opportunity to work on my series in that last three days whilst participating in SAQA’s virtual conference. What an experience! Read my earlier post http://SAQA 2020 MoSAiQA Conference (Toronto) Nature’s Palette Series I am continuing on my current series Nature’s Palette. My current work focuses on materiality. …

Eco printing samples of Eucalyptus polyanthemos leaves

Experimenting with eco printing different eucalyptus leaves is really fun!!!!!!! On Tuesday at the garden club little stems of Eucalyptus polyanthemos were used in a display. The differences between juvenile and mature leaves was very noticable especially as the mature leaves were more silvery. I couldn’t help myself and made the comment about whether they…

Dyeing with Plants

Dyeing with plants is an ancient craft. Extracting pigment from plants and soil is my way of saving colours, of finding hidden colours, of catching nature’s range of colours and arranging it on fabric and yarn. Some colours stand up to washing whilst others fade quickly or disappear totally over time. When dyeing with plants I try to…

Fashfest 2016

Well Fashfest has been and gone. It was a wonderful experience. The models looked fantastic. It was quite an experience to walk onto the runway as a designer. The show looked fabulous. I received a lot of fantastic comments during the break between the shows. And several of the pieces have sold. It…

Fashfest and flowers

I thought I would share something I received today. One of my pieces is included in an article showing Fashfest’s links to flowers as Floriade is now on in Australia’s capital city Canberra https://lostfourwords.com/…/…/bowers-of-flowers-at-fashfest/

Getting ready for Fashfest

It is only two weeks to Fashfest in Canberra. I still have pieces to make. Due to the very wet winter I am having trouble getting bright clear prints on some of the fabrics. I was hoping for some bright colours but knew because of the water conditions that the colours would be muted. I’m sorry…