wax resist - Painted silk

Fibre Reactive dyes

1. 140 cm sq body wrap: silk georgette

Designs for the earliest scarves were developed from the various drawings from flowers, grasses, seedheads. Later, the patterns became more geometrical, as formal pattern began to interest me.

A characteristic of these scarves is one of improvisation, rather than repeat of motifs associated with print. Each mark is drawn by hand. The process does not lend itself easily to repeat as drawing of the same motif can be tedious, if not impossible to achieve. In earlier scarves, a design from a drawing might be used as a starting point, but essentially, it was drawn freehand, so although some scarves look similar, each had unique characteristics. Later, a non representational style evolved, based on line, mark and colour. In the late 1980's I made a series of geometric scarves which could be hung as wall pieces, or worn. (see hangings)
Sizes varied - from small square neckscarves, to 2 metre long floaty scarves and 140cm square wraps. Materials : Silk Habutai, Silk crepe de chine and Silk georgette.
Not every scarf was photographed. The images here were collected for publicity and for submission to exhibitions. Many more scarves exist.