.Garden Blooms.
100% Habotai Silk
165 x 45cm
.hand stitched hem.
 
Leaves of Liquid Amber, Camel Foot and the Asparagus plant, Fynbos grasses, tendrils of Jasmine together with blossoms of Hydrangea.
Made 08.03.20
 
Fresh, dried, whole, nibbled, wind damaged, broken, incomplete leaves are placed on a stretch of silk. Rolled, bound tightly before heating to extract and coax the pigments and tannins from the foliage permanently on to the silk. Each scarf a wearable artwork made with nature. Leaves of each season reflecting and forever held in each scarf.