A Tree of Life

I am preloading this post because tomorrow morning I am having surgery to correct the stigmatism in my left eye. a bit scary for a textile artist but hopefully it will give me much better sight.

Again the base of this is teabags and they have been sandwiched under net and free machine quilted using a leaf design. This time I have introduced textured yarn and momigami paper - (paper that has been significantly crumpled to break up the fibres and allow the paper to be more like fabric). The colours you can see are basically this paper. In addition I have soaked some teabags toward the bottom of the tree in iron sulphate solution to create the darker teabag colours. The branches of the tree exhibit a range of textured yarn that provided definition from the teabag substrate

There is also some stamping in this piece which didn’t come off so well. It was largely an experimental piece to see where the different ideas would take me