Netrakona

Riley pulled out his sketch pad and started sketching the dog.







Pruitt soon joined him.







Indigo is magical. This sari was white and in a vat with indigo minutes ago. As soon as it hit the air (oxidization) it started turning deeper and deeper blue. The wave and shake it so that it oxidizes evenly. This particular piece has a batik design (where it is white). Batik is basically a wax resist to disallow the dye to penetrate in certain areas. As I said . . . MAGICAL!!!







Spools just beg to be photographed. I love the fluff and the shadows cast. In Photoshop I used the Match Color command to match the ambiance of the photo below. I didn't like the bluish cast of the original.







I am not a weaver but this is one step in the process of getting the thread to the loom. The object itself is a piece of art. There is something almost holy and trance inducing about standing in a room permeated with the rhythmic dhum-clop dhum-clop of looms and the soft whirring of these little wheel jobbies being hand crunk. All of this in a low lit room with rays of light escaping into it from a doorway and a window.