Irit Dulman workshop in the States 2014.

    Stunning textures, amazing colors, innovative techniques will be presented on coming workshop of talented artist Irit Dulman in the States in January 2014.

    Irit Dulman works in her studio in Givatayim, just outside TLV, but her inspiration seems to lack borders of time and place. Her colors, textures and designs are sensually bold, seductive, introvert as well as daring. There is nothing obvious in her work, for it has its own reason and feminine insight. 

    Printing tenderness -A creative 2 day workshop in Felt and tattoos botanical prints ( Jan 4-5)
   The multidimensional mystery- 3 day workshop Combining 3D Shibori techniques in felt and dyeing with botanical print ( Jan 6-8)

    Contact Nika Ivanoff  (nikaiv@yahoo.com) for further details or join the event here on Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/events/561328860587213/?ref_dashboard_filter=calendar  

     Only few places left, don't miss it!

     

I'm shooting off...

   I'm shooting off to Vilte and Irit workshop http://viltefelt.blogspot.com/ in four hours. Can't sleep, checking and re-checking if I've collected everything for participants and for myself. Very excited and a bit nervous, this is a first time I'm involved in organisation of such important event.Tomorrow we all meet at the hotel and start setting up workshop place and start early on 17th of July. Wish us good luck, please! I will write about it and publish a lot of pictures after it is finished, so stay tuned! See you soon!
   Here is my latest work.

New work

    I was working a lot lately with customer orders due to my cooperation with 'Spotlight' boutique  https://www.facebook.com/SpotlightFashion. Great shop, great owner Natalie and great sales manager Tatiana. So really pleased about it. And one of the customer of the boutique just bought 4 of my clothing almost in one week. And he never really mentioned size (only app) or design, just a color. So I almost had a panic attack but everything is sold. Plus two scarfs and one wrap by private order, new long dress for the second day of wedding is almost ready, new wrap is must to be dyed, something special are going to Amsterdam soon and so on and so on. I love my job and I don't asking for any day off, but how are you, lovely creative people relaxing?

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Back to black

     I was very lucky this time with the photographs of my work. My dear friend Ingrid and stunning model agreed to help me and we actually had a lot of fun during the photo shut and after. Some pictures are taken in old Nicosia very near to Green Line which separates our island. 

     Winter feels cold for us here after 45 C summer; so I was working on some warm wraps. This time I used wool yarn (got plenty and keep buying it), Blue Faced Leicester, 18 mc Merino wool, Gotland locks, viscose fibers and various silks. I don't think I will use Gotland again for wearable's; it is very hairy and needs a lot of work but at the same time its texture is amazing. And I really should stop buying anymore yarn; just can't walk away from pretty texture and colors:))

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White felt, part two or may be three...

 Just a few images of my white felt makeover. I don't mind this time, it came out rather well and texture looking much better than in a white version of it. And I really started like these warm and earthy colors. Dyeing process still magical procedure to me and it so interesting and educational at the same time. I’m not color blind and could recognize colors but only whites and creams are giving me a lot of calm and eye pleasure, but as they  always say  that ’ you never say ever ’...

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White felt

   I really like white felt and silks and everything white and off white. I wish I could only work with these kind of materials, but it was never ever popular here, so I've decided to go with the flow and do 'next best thing' and dyed my scarf with eucalyptus bark and carob tree pods extract. Silk Chiffon 8 mm and 18.5 mc Merino.  Not entirely happy about it, but I'm trying to look at the situation from a bright side. One scarf is done; another three whites to go soon. May be its some kind of 'white felt discrimination'? : ))) Just joking... Some pics before and after. And I'm not giving up on white felt yet...

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Black and purple evening wrap

     Holiday season is not far away now and I wanted to make a big evening wrap. Black silk is always elegant from my point of view. The only thing, that ladies here, in Cyprus, are always wearing black colors. And sometimes it is very boring to make black scarves all over again. So this time I've decided to incorporate some purple in my work. Here is what happened at the end.

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Working with the raw wool

          Just a few pictures about working with the raw wool. Here is my new winter wrap made of silk gauze and 18 mc Merino fleece. This is a very first time when I want to keep it, thinking of excuses now...

                                                                         
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Eucalyptus dye

    I've collected a lot of eucalyptus bark in the nearest park and continued my experiments with natural dyes. I've run a lot of small tests before with scraps of fabric and got a lot of different and beautiful colors; from pale yellow to dark and rusty rich shades depending on eucalyptus type and fabric. So this wrap is my first real work with eucalyptus. I crocheted it first using baby mohair and felted after with 18 micron carded Merino.

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All about texture...

I think that nuno felt and felt it is all about texture. I just love this delicate but strong structure of it. Here is some images of my felt.

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One step forward

      For some reason my computer is gone AWOL and started working very funny . So I'm scanning, downloading security features , but it is still playing with me. Can't answer any messages.. Here is some of my latest work. I'm not sure how to post the pics yet though...But at least one step forward..

Cotton gauze and BFL. Dyed with logwood

My new pointe shoes and my felt. I just noticed how organic its look together...

Pink Cocoon.Felted dress.Silk&18 mc Merino wool

Felted wrap. Silk&mik protein,crab fiber,16 mc Merino 

Silk gauze and cashmere. Hand dyed with logwood and redwood.

Silk&18 mc Merino seamless dress embellished with sari fibers. 

Silk gauze and 16 mc Merino wool scarf. Hand dyed with redwood&logwood. Color is deep purple at night and plum on the daylight.

Silk gauze and BFL