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“An Alternative Approach to Nuno Felting: No Rolling Required”

By melissa

20 Jun

  2 1/2 Day Workshop  October 11, 12, and 13th 2013 in Virginia City, Nevada at the St. Mary’s Retreat Center. Learn to create new fabric using wet felting techniques fusing fine silk and Merino wool. The new “Nuno” felt fabric will be prepared for over-dyeing, using Shibori wrapping methods. ... Read More about “An Alternative Approach to Nuno Felting: No Rolling Required”

The Year of the Water Dragon

By melissa

23 Jan

Hello everyone, Contrary to my past blogging efforts, I actually waited to do my New Years blog to coincide with the Beginning of the Chinese New Year, Which is today, the 23rd of January, 2012... The Year of the Dragon... I was born in the Year of the Dragon in 1952, and the element for that ... Read More about The Year of the Water Dragon

The Year is Winding down

By melissa

17 Dec

Hello Everyone, As you all know by now I am not the best at blogging...It seems that time has been moving so fast this year, and I have had so many things on my plate that I have been unable to keep up. I had a studio sale the first weekend in December here in Paradise, and I would like to thank ... Read More about The Year is Winding down

It’s November Already!!!

By melissa

2 Nov

Hello Everyone, Time has flown by the last several months, and I did not meet my announced deadline of the end of September (to start my blog) for several very good reasons. We went to Germany to visit our daughter in the beginning of September and I ended up getting sick the day after I ... Read More about It’s November Already!!!

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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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