The Silk Experience

What is 'The Silk Experience' ????

It is a consortium of creative designers, teachers and authors interested in furthering the usage of silk. These fiber artists are eager to explore new processes and to produce and/or introduce products that are necessary to achieve their discovered processes. Most of all, this group of talented artists wish to share their experiences with other fiber enthusiasts. Thus the title Silk Experience.

In conjunction with the silk classes, we also network with various silk related businesses that wish to promote the increasing use of silk and materials, tools and supplies needed for specific silk techniques and processes.

Ginny Eckley, Valerie Vavrik, Carla Peery and Maggie Backman at the Sew Expo in Puyallup, WA 2010

           Ginny Eckley, Valerie Vavrik, Carla Peery & Maggie
            Backman at the Sew & Stitchery Expo in Puyallup.

Val talking to a Silk Experience Class in Houston Texas at the International Quilt Festival
    Val demonstrating image printing in the Silk Room at the IQF in Houston.
Maggie, Val & Carla In Houston, Texas
at the International Quilt Festival in 2007

                  Maggie, Val and Carla in Houston, Texas
                 at the International Quilt Festival.

Silk Experience Teachers in Houston, Texas
at the International Quilt Festival in 2005
  Maggie, Krystal & Ginny at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX.
Silk Experience Teachers in Houston, Texas
at the International Quilt Festival in 2006

  Silk Experience teachers at the Houston International Quilt Festival.

Things Japanese Booth at 
the Sew & Stitchery Expo
 Things Japanese booth at the Sew & Stitchery Expo in Puyallup, Washington.

Extending The Silk Experience

In order to introduce the many unique silk processes develped by our teachers and designers, the Silk Experience has deveoloped a series of CDs highlighting the versitle potential of silk. The seven CD topics include printing on fabric, dyeing basics, silk sewing procedures, and a number of surface design techniques (see complete list below).

     

Coloring Silk Scarves; Inkjet Printing on Fabric Sheets or Rolls; Kimono: Cultural Traditions & Modern Renditions;
Painting on Fabric; Sewing with Silk; Silk Screening the Easy Way; Silks for Quilting


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