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Summertime

July 14, 2018 By Carolyn Foss

For us, Batik with Mary Jo Scandin and Thom Scott together with their students means summertime!  Like all of our classes, it’s one we look forward to long in advance and then while here, the time goes by too fast.  So much is accomplished in those five or seven days. In some cases, clothing is brought to class, ready to wax and dye.  Other projects are created from start to finish in the studio.  A design challenge is part of the week, too, as is the delicious smell of beeswax and freshly ground gourmet coffee!          A puzzle, perhaps, to read this in reverse, but the message is worth the effort.  I think it’s fair to say the subject was found this week in the Batik studio.       A mix of […]

Filed Under: Sievers School, Surface Design, Weaving Tagged With: Batik, Judith Yamamoto, Mary Jo Scandin, Thom Scott, Twill Weaving

Fiber friendships

June 20, 2016 By Carolyn Foss

We received a wonderful surprise gift from the Batik class of 2015 and instructors Mary Jo Scandin and Thom Scott after this year’s class introduction.  Last year, each of the students and teachers had made a batik panel based on a color challenge that was later assembled, backed and sewn by Thom (he also did the bottom Sievers School of Fiber Arts panel).  Now hanging from the beams in the Walter Studio, this is really a gift to all of Sievers – including you!  Thank you batik artists for the banner and for your friendship! [intense_row padding_top=”0px”] [intense_column size=”6″ medium_size=”6″ small_size=”12″ extra_small_size=”12″] [/intense_column][intense_column size=”6″ medium_size=”6″ small_size=”12″ extra_small_size=”12″]  [/intense_column][intense_row] The buckets were brimming and the wax pots were in use for the next seven […]

Filed Under: Sievers School, Surface Design, Weaving Tagged With: Batik, Beginning Weaving, Mary Jo Scandin, Nancy Adams, Thom Scott

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