Textile Compositions and Decompositions with Wendy Bliss

Wendy Bliss is a Textile artist, Master Costumer, Instructor, and Scholar of all things fiber arts who began sewing very young, and doing her own patterning by the time she was 14 - fiber has always spoken clearly. Her work includes historical costume/ cosplay and dyeing for over thirty years and she cut her teeth on historical German Renaissance era garments. Then moved into fourteenth century French, and then hit 9-10th century Slavic as areas of primary research & reconstruction. She also creates jewelry with designs springboarded from history, and lately has branched out into soft sculpture and quilt design, as well as Silk Velvet pumpkins and  mushrooms. It's all about making things with shape and color and texture.

In This episode we explore the primordial elements of being drawn to work on mushrooms, How to construct and compose them, and their decompositional nature. We discuss the importance of curiosity, and exploration in developing ones' skills, how everybody makes mistakes and the importance of showing them especially to students, fabric engineering, the breadth of techniques employed in the use of different materials, The ways that various fabric behaves, what to do with that project you made that has bad associations, and what possible future collaborations might look like. 

You can find her work on social media at https://www.facebook.com/wendy.bliss.31/photos_by
and emailing her directly for classes, workshops, commissions, some of those brilliant Silk velvet pumpkins and mushrooms at wendy.bliss at gmail dot com

Intro Music, Irish Trad tune: The Micky Dam- guitar instrumental by Richard Mandel 
of the Jammy Dodgers, https://thejammydodgers.com/Richard_Mandel.html
with Permission for MixedMedia Talks

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