bleached bleached

really liking the new issue of bleached bleached

. . .and the strong shadows in vivian joyner's photographs

Huntington Gardens

cacti and succulents bliss in Pasadena, a month ago

and my studio window, this evening

women of L.A. (pt 1)

last month Jen welcomed me in her L.A. home

she spent a lot of time in her back yard dyeing pieces for her collection Ermie, whilst I explored the city

Jen is an inspiration, she is welcoming and warm and bright

& I feel that some of her optimist has stuck with me, now that I'm back in the UK
thank you for everything, Jen!

photo 1,2,4 Jen wears her indigo dye tank and my solush pants from ss13

Utopian Poncho

the Modern Utopian Poncho is back!

you can chose from the diamond and the arrowheads pattern

every poncho will have a different patchwork collar just like last season

but this time I have included some of the block printed silks from my SS13

I love this photo of Jen wearing her poncho in L.A.!

photo credit: Megan Mcisaac (www.meganmcisaac.com)

 the Aloha Dress in pewter dabu print is now available in the US at Pour Porter

***I love Noel's glamorous styling

there is a longer version of the aloha here

(I developed this fabric design alongside my printers in Rajasthan 

dabu print is a mud-resist hand-block printing, 

the cloth is first printed with a mud-like clay and then dyed with natural dyes)

been busy making SS13 pieces for shop orders . . . hoping to upload the collection on big cartel this weekend for personal orders.
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have a good easter!

S p r i n g / S u m m e r 2 0 1 3

B l u e

experiments with black beans

q&a with ✳ s a s h a ✳

Sasha wearing her Niyama Shawl

a song

the whole second side of the kim jung mi record "now", lately i just play it over and over

an icon

i need so many people for different things but joni + neil, two i can always rely on in just about whatever moment

a film

3 women

a vegetable

burdock, and weird this was what first came to mind when you read my first memory that came to mind

a colour / texture

so many colors + textures oh god

a garment

                                anything i've had so long and is loved and has holes and is so old

a memory

second grade, someone throwing a handful of burrs in my hair, remembering that feeling of tangle, the noise they made transitioning from being stuck and being pulled out, standing by this water bank by myself getting burrs embedded in my fingertips trying to get them out of my hair, i think about this memory a lot, for some reason it's one of my favorite memories

a meal

could say so many things so just, for breakfast today: melted butter in cast iron, scrambled egg with crumbled rosepetal + a little grated apple + a pinch of salt, ate right out of the pan

a moon

just the moon, all its moons, all sides of the moon and all of it's moments, milk, egg, blood, hunger

the Gulabi Gang of Northern India

 a very special trade with cristina

the Modern Utopian poncho is now available in Swanfield boutique

Cat Stevens took some beautiful photos of it for their 'Muse project'

...& below is a little Q+A I have done with Cat.

a song

Ralph Stanley covering The Velvet's White Light / White Heat. Adorable

an icon

David Attenborough

a plant

Oxalis Triangularis

a colour

Dusk

a film

Walkabout

a landscape

The disused slate quarry on the summit of Castle Crag in the Lake District. We stumbled upon it last year whilst in search of local 'Professor of Adventure' Millican Dalton's cave. To quote Millican, "You can't feel lonely with nature as your companion"

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL THE  S I S T E R S

that have supported M.S. by

buying

wearing

trading

posting

liking

the collection

K e e p D a n c i n g 

&

take 30% off on ALL ITEMS in the shop

with the code

'sister'
(the code is no longer valid but I have updated the shop with SALE prices)

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