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Hello. My name's Liz Plummer and I'm a artist working mostly with fabric. I love dyeing, printing, painting and stitching.
This blog is about the influences on my work, inspiration, my daily life,
and the processes of creating. Enjoy!My Website
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Email me at liz @ lizplummer . com
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Tag Archives: printing
Fascinating description of natural dyeing in Pakistan
I regularly read Jenny Dean’s blog, Wild Colour, and her latest post is extremely interesting. She has some intricately hand printed ajrakh fabric from Pakistan and describes how it is accomplished using wood blocks, indigo, madder and various mordants. Amazing….
Gocco printing photos on Facebook
I just finished a Gocco printing session and have put photos up on Facebook (in case it gets too boring here on the blog!!). They’re on my Facebook profile and I’ll put them on my Facebook shop page as well … Continue reading
Altering Moleskine journals
Last year I traced part of a medieval woodcut print of a cityscape using one of the Dover books, and made it into a Gocco screen. I’m not sure that the screen I made was very successful because I didn’t … Continue reading
Week at Urchfont Manor
I meant to blog about the week I had at Urchfont ages ago but the summer is slipping away and I don’t know where it’s gone! I went with a group of textiley internet pals. Urchfont is a manor house … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, printing
Tagged embellisher, pasta machine, printing, spinning, urchfont
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How to reuse scrap paper for journalling, packaging and tags
I wrote this post for the Ecoetsy team blog last year and thought I’d repost it here in case any of you feel like having a play day printing – I’ve got so many envelopes which arrive and look almost … Continue reading
Garden progress
Well, the patio is looking a bit better stocked now; I just hope these French beans will look as healthy after the slugs sniff them out! And here are the tomatoes all bedded in! The big ones are Alicante, the … Continue reading
