
Saturday, September 27, 2014
World of Wearable Art 2014

Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Rustic felt on the cover
Felt and natural dyeing by me on the cover of Lithuanian People magazine, worn by beautiful Lithuanian actress Egle Jackaite and her sons. Photography by Viktorija Vaisvilaite.
The idea of the photographer was to create rustic and cozy image of the family members. For this I chose delicate silk, cotton muslin, wool, spun silk embroidery and natural dyeing and improvised eco printing of the garments. I used madder, cochineal, alkanet, walnut and young alder collected from my yard.
Friday, January 17, 2014
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Ballerina dress
It was one of those personally very special projects – designing a dress for my so beloved ballet dancer Beata Molyte, performing Anna Karenina in a dance play by my beloved choreographer Anzelika Cholina (ACH theater).
photography by Svetlana Batura
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Monday, January 28, 2013
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…
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The Wool Lab–trends for Summer 2013
It was really an honor to collaborate with the Wool Lab company in their trends booklet for Spring Summer 2013, - a guide to the best wool fabrics and yarns in the world. My pieces were chosen for one of the trends named PURE.
One of the most important things is to bring inspiration to people’s hearts. Isn’t it?
Friday, February 24, 2012
To dye for
It’s been really a busy time preparing for my trip to Australia this March to give workshops. In a meantime I managed to give 2 more workshops in Moscow and had real pleasure seeing the students create wonderful things from the wild fibers.
I also opened a real herbal lab in our apartment with lot’s of natural dyeing taking place. And found a beautiful quotation about natural dyes to continue the theme of the natural over the synthetic colours:
“One of the key reasons why natural colors look better than chemical colors because they are not 'pure' color: a natural red, for example, will include blue and yellow, whereas a chemical red will only contain red pigment. The impurities of natural dyes, which may comprise from five to 25 percent of the dye, consist of other hues that are similar to the main one, and it is these mixtures that make natural dyes so beautiful and create their harmony with neighboring natural colors. Where one person will see some purple in a hank of gray yarn, another may see some blue in it. To be able to see the difference is partly genetic, like the ability to curl one's tongue lengthwise, and partly a matter of experience. On the other hand, evenness of a synthetically dyed carpet is flat and uninteresting. Natural dye, precisely because of its unevenness, makes color vibrate or sparkle. And for some people this "imperfection," a sign of the artist's hand working natural substances from the garden or fields, has spiritual overtones.” (AzerbaijanRugs)
Some of my natural colours drying and waiting to be felted in. A real burst of colours, longing for Spring?..
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Color
There is something in the colors from the plants that keep you so attracted to them. It gives you comfort. It stimulates your senses that sometimes you just want to soak in that color. It might be a little scrap piece of silk, but you look at it and can’t stop – it’s like something that is encoded in that color from a plant speaks to your subconsciousness while your consciousness subsides. And you don’t have to understand anything at all, you just have to feel it.
It never happens with artificial colors. Even when you look at the color you adore, it’s different. You love it, but it’s just not the same… It lacks that feeling…
I believe it’s my third Summer when I do a lot of dyeing with plants. I can’t call myself a professional dyer who does a lot of studies and makes detailed records (if I would go that deep into dyeing, I would have to stop felting. One man can not live the lifetimes of many, no matter how you want it…) But just when I did my first samples with plants, I felt THAT. There is something that won’t let you go back too. You even don’t notice, but all artificially dyed materials little by little start to step back of your creative life and you find yourself surrounded just with what you call natural and true.
It’s my first Summer though when I collect quite a lot of dye stuff from my own land myself or use vegetable waste and medicinal herbs that have expired (I always had lots of these as this is almost the only medicine I take for more than 15 years).
St. John’s wort, sage, tansy – all growing in our fields, around us. I really love the sources that are available here… And I’ve been using them as medicinal herbs for so many years already. Strange that I didn’t think about colors before. Dyeing opens your eyes to the world. It teaches you to notice things, to cherish the world we are living in, to connect and to feel. It heals you.
And then the color meets the fiber to make a perfect duo. And makes you want to soak in it, to touch it, wander with your eyes in it, get lost and feel safe at the same time.
Comfort…
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Corner shop – for fiber supplies
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Wild beauty
I won’t be too humble in saying that the presentation was really inspiring and enchanting, but it was that way. The collection itself was very organic and definitely not static, so I decided to reinforce this impression by presenting it in a movement on modern dance dancers.
My biggest thanks thus goes to the dancers of Studija M, leaded by Lina Puodžiukaitė, a couple of dancers from Aura – Gotautė Kalmatavičiūtė and Gabija Blochina; masters of visage and hair style from Kirpėjų ir Grožio specialistų asociacija; and photographer Nerijus Kuzmickas.
There’s a very tiny sneak peak to how the dancers moved on Youtube. And if you want to listen to the music used in the show, here it is – first part was more light with this music and the second part presented more deep textures and colors with this music.
Concept of the collection was focusing on raw, “nude” natural materials (raw silk, wool, handspun silk, sustainable banana fiber…) creating wild organic surfaces, everything formed with hands in live shapes, seamless dresses. It’s like picking up raw wool and silk and “moulding” it into organic silhouettes and textures, beautiful wild “skin” for a human being.
All the collection was dyed with plants in eco friendly way giving it another organic aspect. These colors are live and warm, they encode something that is beyond what you can see with your eyes, it encompasses the feeling of the color…
More dresses and more photos on FB or Flickr.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Paskutiniu metu kūriau eko kolekciją vėlimo ant audinių technika, dažydama viską augalais, kuri buvo pristatyta “Moters Pasaulio” parodos metu Kaune, kartu su ARZA joillerie juvelyrika iš gintaro ir gagato. (Nuotraukas iš pristatymo rasite mano Facebook’o puslapyje ir Flickr galerijoje).
Turbūt ne kuklu sakyti, kad pristatymas buvo užburiantis, tačiau jis būtent toks buvo. Pati kolekcija buvo labai organiška ir tikrai ne statiška, todėl norėdama tai sustiprinti, pristatymui pasirinkau modernaus šokio šokėjas.
Taigi nuoširdžiausiai dėkoju Studija M šokėjoms, vadovaujamoms Linos Puodžiukaitės, porai Auros šokėjų – Gotautei Kalmatavičiūtei, Gabijai Blochinai; Kirpėjų ir grožio specialistų asociacijos meistrėms; fotografui Nerijui Kuzmickui.
Youtube svetainėje ir nedidukė atkarpėlė reportažo – tiesiog tam, kad pajausti, kaip šokėjos judėjo. Pirmos dalies muzika – švelnesnėms, lengvesnėms suknelėms, antroji – ryškesnėms, gilesnėms faktūroms ir spalvoms.
Kolekcijos konceptas – atsigręžimas į natūralias pirmines, “žalias”, tikras, “nuogas” medžiagas (šilko, vilnos, bananų pluoštai, rankomis verptas šilkas…), jomis kuriant organiškus paviršius, viską formuojant rankomis, be siūlių. Tai tarsi “žalių” pluoštų paėmimas į rankas ir organiškų siluetų, faktūrų, laukinės naujos žmogaus “odos” lipdymas rankomis.
Dar vienas organiškas kolekcijos aspektas – dažymas augalais. Tokios spalvos – gyvos, šiltos, savyje talpinančios ne tik tai, ką galima pamatyti akimis, bet ir tai, ką galima pajausti…
Daugiau nuotraukų ir suknelių FB arba Flickr galerijose.