RECONSTRUCTION

Layers of Natural Color and Design in Felting

with Irit Dulman and Vilte Kazlauskaite

September 9-17, 2013. Cyprus.

Botanical print and natural dyeing reconstructed in new wearable felt directions.

Exploring layers and advanced fusion of botanical print and felting.

Vilte Kazlauskaite:
- Exploring layers in felting and their characteristics, as well as possibilities of fusion
- Reconstruction of layers and introduction of other design elements
- Color language - personal colors and print as the starting point of the design
- Fiber dynamics and pattern making
- Mixing and matching the textural language of felt


Irit Dulman:
- Botanical print and natural background coloring - exploring layers in color
- Contact dyeing - possibilities of graphical, watercolor, and marbling effects
- Distortion and reconstruction of botanical prints
- Advanced felt focused exploration of botanical print in all stages of felt making

info: viltess@gmail.com

photo: collaborative work of Vilte Kazlauskaite (felt and garment design) and Irit Dulman (botanical print design)

Lifetime passion

"It's a lifestyle. It's a lifetime passion. An artist needs to be ambitious and passionate. You don't work nine to five. You breathe your art twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week." (E.Shafak)

collaboration of Vilte & Irit

Memories of Cyprus

That was Cyprus 2012. Sweet memories and wonderful ladies.

Fiber Sculpture

 

Fiber manipulation/sculpture technique, developed by me. ©

Belle Armoire

I think I have forgotten to show this feature on the blog. Lovely memories of the Summer too – a feature in Belle Armoire, Summer 2012, volume 12 issue 2, feat. in pg. 18-23.

Many thanks for Svetlana Batura, who made all photography for this article.

Prints

Collaboration with wonderful Irit Dulman.

Cochineal+madder+walnut in fiber manipulation

Natural colors in natural textures – fiber manipulation/sculpture technique, developed by me. ©

Weld and madder

 

Poetry of fibers

When colors are taken away, and you get to experience the very poetry of each fiber..

 

 

 

Natural colors

There is something in colors that you get from plants that once your started playing with them, it’s turning you away from anything synthetic. You just can’t stop exploring the natural. I think I’ve said it before…