Received from Amanda in Canada, June 2012.
I feel so lucky as I have received a second letter from Amanda. Her pretty handhandwriting and the envelop itself is always a treat for the eye. The first letter from her can be seen here.
Amanda is a photo based artist living in Toronto and she makes the most stunning photos. You can read about her photo process here and here.
Recently she has got her very first loom, a LeClerc with 4 shafts, as she likes textiles a lot. Eventhough it's small loom there is still so many options, as long as the weaver have a playful mind. You can weave with overtwisted threads in plainweave together with twill, or make stribes in the denting of the reed, with open-tight, being openminded is the best way to create.
The pretty envelop with Amanda's very fine handwriting, which I love so much.
Amanda always surprises me, here she has written the letter on a piece of fabric. It look japanese to me, like a tie-dyed with indigo.
Amanda is interested in how contemporary artist use craft in their practices, and how people make a living making textiles.
The letter contains a pretty stamp from India her friend Sanjay gave to her. Amanda is dreaming about visiting India with her boyfriend next year.
The little piece of thread is cotton. Right now she is weaving towels of it and finaly pretty initials of my name; KNR.
Dear Amanda, thank you so much for this letter. Your letter written on the fabric will soon be in my studio.
Received from Olga in Russia, March the 29.
My textile letter from Olga is so amazing.
Eventhough I don't really know Olga in person face-to-face, there is something about her letter to me and her blog which reminds me of each other, and this is why I think I have got to know Olga even more than a face-to-face meeting.
Olga's blog and her letterwriting is so fragile and I'm so happy to get to know her.
My letter from Olga.
Olga have a White Room, where you can purchase her fantastic jewellry and her prints of watercolor work. Here is an iris and I have putted it together with a perlehyacint, thats what we called in Danish. I think they goes nicely together.
In Danish this little bird is called a Gulspurv. Also a print of a watercolor from Olga's shop. I think the details in the watercolor is so beautiful and it's like I can touch the little bird.
A pretty little blockprint.
Solid colors are so beautiful light.
This blue indigo and white cotton fabric is usually used as towels in the trains of Russia. Simpel, but still so classic!
A little note from Olga to me!!
Olga have been collecting tapes for a long time, and here is a little collection.
These two are my favorites. Especially the simpel white one with the black stripe in a 3-d effect would look nice on a dress.
Full of Spring and happiness. These tapes are so amazing.
Dear Olga, thank you for your fragile textile letter to me, your little bird will soon be hanging at my studio.
Received from Amanda in Canada, March the 24.
I have just got this oh so fine letter from Amanda. She wrote to me, wanting to be part of my textile letter exchange.
Part of the letter from Amanda.
The card merges that Amanda went to school for photography. The card is made with an old doily. Amanda have used the cyanotype process, a technique from the 1830's that creates a blue image using 2 liquids (chemicals) that become light-sensitive when, mixed together. The doily, in this case acted as a "negative".
This is such an amazing present. Thank you!
There is so many fantastic details in the letter from Amanda. This is one of them. On the card she have printed / stamped 18 MAR 2012. I would love to be able to find these stamps myself.
I love this idea. Fabric ends!!
Just like Amanda, I too like the circles with the different colors of inkdye.
Here is a polaroid of the first dress Amanda have ever sewed. She still wears it. The fabric end of "Fresh paint by Michele Dámore for Marcus" is the textile Amanda have sewn the dress from.
On the envelope "textile letter inside" were written. Such a beautiful detail. I'm in love with it.
Dear Amanda, I want to thank you for your delicate letter to me. I will put the fabric ends and your beautiful handmade card up in studio.
