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TEXTILLIAN JOURNEYS SPRING OF 2020

By melissa

29 Mar

Hello Everyone!   WOW….2020 has hit us like a bolt of lightning….I have always believed that there is a reason for everything….and there are no coincidences….We are here navigating these unprecedented times because our Mother Earth is not happy with us ….She needed to grab our attention ... Read More about TEXTILLIAN JOURNEYS SPRING OF 2020

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TEXTILLIAN JOURNEYS WINTER of 2019/2020

By melissa

31 Dec

TEXTILLIAN JOURNEYS WINTER of 2019/2020 As this remarkable year draws to a close, I find that I am in the "Reflection Mode"....and looking back on all that transpired in the course of 2019....not only with my family and I, but with our country and our world.....Things feel as if they are ... Read More about TEXTILLIAN JOURNEYS WINTER of 2019/2020

TEXTILLIAN JOURNEYS,…CREATING SPACE,… USING WHAT I HAVE,… AND “LETTING GO” IN THE SUMMER of 2019

By melissa

10 Jul

Well..... Time travels so fast, Life becomes so engrossing, and ever evolving, day by day. Here we are over a year later in early July 2019, and having gone through a myriad of life experiences and incredible creative endeavors, I find I continue to travel on the textillian journey, thirsting for ... Read More about TEXTILLIAN JOURNEYS,…CREATING SPACE,… USING WHAT I HAVE,… AND “LETTING GO” IN THE SUMMER of 2019

Textillian Journeys, Dreamtime Atelier, Art Cloth Bundles and Life in General

By melissa

18 Apr

It is Springtime here in the Bitterroot Mountains, that time of re-newal, re-birth, and for me, "re-imagining" what comes next.....At our "small-cabin-in-the-woods-ranch," things are beginning to green up, we are having rain, wind, and "gropple"...(a new-to-me word meaning snow that looks like ... Read More about Textillian Journeys, Dreamtime Atelier, Art Cloth Bundles and Life in General

INDIGO

By melissa

8 Dec

What a remarkable 2 day workshop (November 16th and 17th 2013) this was...it was fascinating to me to be able to compare the 2 indigo vats....we did  zinc/lime vats and now I realize why Yoshiko Wada in the 5 day workshop I took from her in 1992, used synthetic Indigo....and indeed it seemed that ... Read More about INDIGO

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Melissa Arnold

I have been wandering through the field of textiles, and related creative fields for well over 40 years.

In 1990 my husband and I moved to Hawaii, while there, I learned Traditional Japanese Shibori techniques and indigo dyeing from Temari, a center for Asian Arts in Honolulu. I also worked at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Culture and Natural History in Honolulu in the field of Art Conservation for 10 years.

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Every Fragment Tells a Story …work in progress….”Artifacts of a Lost Realm”…memories and language…the randomness of shaping by nature…small prayers from the sea…a lifetime ago
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#foundobjects #fragments #rescuedfromthesea #dreamtimeatelier #prayerbowls #calligraphy #languageandmemories #manifestingthoughtfulness #love
Hello to all my friends ….it’s been awhile sin Hello to all my friends ….it’s been awhile since I have posted anything here…I have been busy creating new work and all of a sudden it’s the end of January!

1-2 Bone beads covered with beautiful old Japanese papers (a gift from the late 90’s)

3-7,9….new collage work on paper and canvas with water colors, sumi ink, and persimmon tannin. Some with sticks and stones….

8….a stack of vintage silks dyed with avocado, onionskins, lac, madder, and cutch.

#newwork #collage #sticksstonesandbones
#dreamtimeatelier #vintagejapanesepaper #vintagecloth
So pleased with my recent explorations with iron o So pleased with my recent explorations with iron oxides and different tannins… the first photo is a rayon/silk jacquard next to a Japanese lace paper… I’ve been experimenting with different papers and even an old rayon/silk obi (last photo)…I like the idea of creating a language through random mark making….
#ironandtannin
#wabisabiexperiments #magicalmoments #whathappensif #dreamtimeatelier
I’m in so much gratitude for this gift of papers I’m in so much gratitude for this gift of papers 19 years ago when I was working with an incredible paper conservator whose specialty was Japanese 6 panel folding screens…these papers were found inside the screen as it was dismounted…I loved them then as I do now and feel so fortunate to be able to use them in my new work…I believe they are from the early 1900’s…..
#oldcalligraphypracticepapers #beautifulpapers #gift #magicalmoments #dreamtimeatelier #thoughtfulwork
The grey area between black and white…the place The grey area between black and white…the place where dreams and visions begin 

#inspiration #slowmagic #visionkeepers #dreamtimeatelier
I have grown the most beautiful mold in the course I have grown the most beautiful mold in the course of the winter months in my dye studio this lovely agate like growth is on top of acorns that I boiled last November…. Wish I could save it some how…..any suggestions @mmmordere ? Maybe I’ll print the image for one of my cards….
#mold #fungus? #colorsoftheearth #magicalmoments
Playing around with black canvases, botanical prin Playing around with black canvases, botanical prints, my disc cutter, and lots of dots…spirals and circles seem to be informing my current creative journey…hanging out in the nebula….
#dreamtimeatelier, #lostinspace #earthcolors #botanicals #experimentation #meditation
Trying to find balance in chaotic times, rock pile Trying to find balance in chaotic times, rock piles, tannin and oxides on Korean Hanji, a prayer bowl for a dear friend, Shibori over a mono print on heavy silk crepe, kintsugi scapula bones worn away by time and ocean to the shapes of a heart…small, slow, and thoughtful day by day…a Wabi Sabi life….
#amakerslife #markmaking #thebeautyofthingsimperfect #slowandthoughtful #observing #dreamtimeatelier
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