This cloth is from Ghana, a thin cotton brocade woven and dyed by textile artisans there. Specifically, a woman's collective. What you can't see in either shot are the impressions....every piece has a different invisible design built into the fabric that is only visible when the light hits it just right. So far I've identified diamonds, flowers, stars, stripes, rectangles. There are seven with an unidentifiable kinda-geo pattern, and one that can only be described as cave drawings. Wowie.
While I will attempt to retain some sense of that Wonderfulness in the final piece, I can already tell that's probably not gonna happen. Dammit. Will see what I can do...
Only regret? I could only get relatively small pieces of the raw cloth because that's all they had available in unconstructed form at the event. They called them 'napkins', I call them 'source material'.
(Yeah...updated thie entry with full links much later in the day. Thought I had pushed 'draft'. Idiot Girl strikes again.)
