Podcasts about Shibori

Der Kanton Zug muss quasi per sofort auf seinen Gesundheitsvorsteher verzichten. Nach seiner Wahl am Mittwoch wird Martin Pfister in den nächsten Wochen oft in Bern sein. Sein Stellvertreter in Zug ist aktuell auch noch Landammann und gesundheitlich angeschlagen. Wie organisiert sich Zug? Die weiteren Themen: (00:01:27) SO: Wahlsystem macht 2. Wahlgang nötig Im Kanton Solothurn ist am vergangenen Sonntag bei den Regierungsratswahlen niemand im ersten Wahlgang gewählt worden. Alle acht Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten haben das absolute Mehr nicht geschafft. Nicht einmal die Bisherigen. Das liegt daran, dass im Kanton Solothurn auch die Leerstimmen gezählt werden. Das absolute Mehr war deshalb so hoch, dass niemand gewählt wurde. Macht dieses System Sinn? (00:06:51) BE: Der Kampf der Kantone um Innovation Jede Region der Schweiz will innovativer sein als die andere. Es gibt einen permanenten Standortwettbewerb. Der Kanton Bern passt nun sein Gesetz an: innovative Projekte sollen regelmässig Geld erhalten – statt nur als Anschub. Damit will man in der Schweiz wieder konkurrenzfähig sein. Wir haben uns ein solches «innovatives» Projekt angeschaut: Das CSEM, das Schweizer Forschungs- und Entwicklungszentrum beim Universitätsspital forscht im Gebiet Medizinaltechnik. Und profitiert vom Kampf der Kantone. (00:09:27) ZH: Schluss mir der Schule, psychisch angeschlagen und ohne Lehrstelle Wer nach der Schule ohne Lehrstelle dasteht, geht normalerweise in ein 10. Schuljahr. Aber Jugendliche mit psychischen Problemen passen oft nicht in die gängigen Angebote. Die soziale Stiftung Märtplatz im Zürcher Unterland bietet deshalb neu ein Brückenjahr an für Jugendliche, die eine besondere Unterstützung brauchen. Der erste Jahrgang ist erfolgreich abgeschlossen. Eine Jugendliche erzählt was dieses Angebot ihr gebracht hat. (00:12:32) BS: Von der Fasnacht ins Museum Die Fasnachtsclique Déja-Vu war dieses Jahr in sehr speziellen Kostümen an der Basler Fasnacht unterwegs. Die Clique trug blaue Shibori-Kostüme – Shibori ist eine alte japanische Färbetechnik. Dafür hat die Clique mit dem Basler Museum der Kulturen zusammengearbeitet. Das Museum plant nämlich eine grosse Shibori-Ausstellung und ein Teil der Kostüme landet nach der Fasnacht darum im Museum. Noch nie hat die Fasnachtsclique soviel Aufwand betrieben für ein Kostüm.

Die Clique «Déjà-Vü» war an den drei schönsten Tagen des Basler Jahres als Japankäfer unterwegs. Ihre Kostüme wurden mit der traditionellen japanischen Färbetechnik «Shibori» hergestellt und werden Teil einer Ausstellung im Museum der Kulturen sein. Ausserdem: · Stimmen vom «Ändstraich» · lokaler Wetterbericht

In this Stitchery Stories episode, host Susan Weeks chats with Sally McCollin, a textile artist, designer, and educator with a fascinating career spanning publishing, design, and teaching. From early beginnings knitting mohair jumpers for pocket money to working with major craft companies like Patons & Baldwins (now Coats Crafts), Sally has had an incredible journey in the textile industry. She shares insights into her commercial design work, editorial roles, teaching, and her passion for inspiring others through online embroidery courses, and textile art courses. Key Talking Points: From hobby to profession: How Sally's love for textiles grew from childhood sewing to a career in knitting, embroidery, and design. Working in the commercial craft industry: Her experience designing knitting patterns and working in PR for Coats Crafts. Teaching and inspiring others: How she transitioned into teaching and developed unique textile art courses. Embroidery Skills Courses: The thought process behind creating courses that blend design and embroidery techniques. The importance of play in design: Encouraging creativity through experimentation rather than rigid instruction.  Balancing creativity and deadlines: Funny behind-the-scenes stories of stitching projects for magazine features. Love for Shibori and fabric dyeing: Why fabric manipulation and color experimentation remain her favorite techniques. Relevant Links: For this episode... View Links, information & Examples of Sally's work at https://stitcherystories.com/sallymccollin Visit: https://courses.embroiderersguild.com/ Read: https://courses.embroiderersguild.com/p/blog?p=your-online-embroidery-tutor About Stitchery Courses! VISIT Stitchery Courses a brilliant new place to find expert teachers, helpful info & fun courses to learn stitching, making & crafting with thread, fabric & yarn https://www.stitcherycourses.com GET LISTED on Stitchery Courses if you teach you art, craft, skills with thread, fabric & yarn and tap into this unique place to regularly market your classes and courses and get a steady stream of eager new ‘eyes' onto your business! DON'T MISS OUT! https://www.stitcherycourses.com/join Support Stitchery Stories: Please share the podcast with friends and leave a review to help others discover the show. Buy Me A Coffee If you love Stitchery Stories, how about you 'buy me a coffee' and make a donation to help the show keep going? https://buymeacoffee.com/sueweekspodcast Are We Connected On Socials? Why not pop over to your fave social media places, connect and say Hello! I always LOVE to see what you are stitching and sharing! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stitcherystories_podcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stitcherystories  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SusanWeeksYoutube   Other Episodes You Might Like:

Are you ready to build your dream community? Creating deeper connections, harmonious collaborations, and more supportive relationships is a benefit to everyone and can start today, wherever you are in your community journey. Todays conversation dives into the how with three seasoned community veterans, Thomas Wall, Aaron Kahlow, and Leyla Makris. Recorded at the June Bloom Festival at the Emerald Village in San Diego, this conversation will leave you inspired and ready to take the next step towards living your community dreams. Thomas Wall is the Director of First Impressions at Liberty Arising healing sanctuary in Boulevard California. Thomas  has been living at Liberty for 8 years and has been living in community for over 18 years. He holds a masters in Marriage and Family Therapy and has been guiding people in their relationship health for the past 25 years.  LibertyArising.org Aaron Kahlow communitarian, dedicated to Meaningful Human connection.  Experienced circle facilitator, somatic healing & co-regulation guide, Emotional Resilience trainer & mens work guide. Supporting families, organizations, schools and communities locally. Leyla Makris is one of the founders at the Emerald Village. She has brought her background in education to serve the community for the past thirteen years. She is lovingly known as Mama Leyla for being a stand for growth and connection. Her wisdom is an integral part of our thriving village.  Learn more about the Emerald Village and get the details for their next event on Instagram ⁠@EmeraldVillageOasis⁠ or at www.EmeraldVillageOasis.org If you want to learn more about being a creating your dream community or any aspect of community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Foundation for Intentional Community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, and lots of free educational materials. become a member so you can access even more of their incredible resources if it's within your means, donate to help them continue to do their amazing work in the world.  Podcast listeners get 20% off in ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FIC Bookstore⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠with code INSIDE20 and 30% off ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FIC courses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠with code INSIDE30. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ic.org/podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.  Stay in touch with me during our break! Follow the show and see inspiring images and videos of community life on Facebook and Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@InsideCommunityPodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - I'd love to hear from you there and am available for consulting!  If this content has been meaningful or useful to you, please subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, and share with your friends and folks you know who are curious about living Inside Community. Check out my work with Shibori and Natural Dyes ⁠@BoundForColor⁠ and just follow me and the events I'm producing in Southern Oregon ⁠@RebeccaMesritz⁠ Super Awesome Inside Community Jingle by FIC board member Dave Booda ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠davebooda.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Inside Community Podcast theme music by Rebecca Mesritz Recorded by Christian Shimer Editing by Dave Booda & Rebecca Mesritz

This Bonus Episode is all about the perspective of the kids! Listen in on a funny and heartwarming conversation I had with 6 kids ranging in age from 5-24 about their experience growing up in community. This panel was conducted at the Emerald Village's Full Bloom Festival in San Diego and if you are considering community life, having a family or already have a family, or just like kids…Put this episode on your must listen list! Learn more about the Emerald Village and get the details for their next event on Instagram @EmeraldVillageOasis Check out Jakob Saloner's Portrait Project @P0rtraitproject If you want to learn more about being a kid in community or any aspect of community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Foundation for Intentional Community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, and lots of free educational materials. become a member so you can access even more of their incredible resources if it's within your means, donate to help them continue to do their amazing work in the world.  Podcast listeners get 20% off in ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FIC Bookstore ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠with code INSIDE20 and 30% off ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FIC courses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ with code INSIDE30. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ic.org/podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.  Stay in touch with me during our break! Follow the show and see inspiring images and videos of community life on Facebook and Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@InsideCommunityPodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - I'd love to hear from you there and am available for consulting!  If this content has been meaningful or useful to you, please subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, and share with your friends and folks you know who are curious about living Inside Community. Check out my work with Shibori and Natural Dyes @BoundForColor and just follow me and the events I'm producing in Southern Oregon @RebeccaMesritz Super Awesome Inside Community Jingle by FIC board member Dave Booda ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠davebooda.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Inside Community Podcast theme music by Rebecca Mesritz Editing by Rebecca Mesritz

Shelley Hennig takes on an incredible challenge as she steps into four distinct roles in the psychological thriller "Fluxx," a film conceived during the COVID pandemic. Join us as we chat with Shelley, Director, Brendan Gabriel Murphy, and members of the creative team behind this genre-blending marvel, including Kieran Murphy, Lance Paul, and Shiloh Fernandez. Discover how Shelley's seamless performances became the backbone of a narrative that traps an actress in a surreal loop within her home. This episode promises a behind-the-curtain look at a film that boldly declares, "fame is a nightmare."Venture further into the craft of filmmaking as we explore the ingenuity behind the immersive set design. Learn how the team, with limited resources but boundless creativity, transformed their vision into reality using Shibori-dyed drapes and an underwater city set. Get insights into the collaborative spirit and technical prowess that ensured authenticity and realism with the innovative use of a volume stage. Experience the festival buzz and audience excitement as we bring you the magic of "Fluxx": a movie about movies that challenges the boundaries of storytelling.Send us a textFor our listeners, CFA's teamed up with We Make Movies to get you a discount on production management services, including access to comprehensive production insurance and workers' comp for your next shoot. Visit wemakemovies.org/insurance and use code CFA23 on your intake form for 10% off your quote.Calling all actors! Take 25% off your membership at WeAudition with code: CFA25 Website: www.cinematographyforactors.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cinematographyforactors TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cinematographyforactors Cinematography for Actors is a community aimed at bridging the gap between talent & crew through our weekly podcast & community events. Our weekly show supports the filmmaking community through transparent, honest & technically focused interviews with the goal of elevating the art of effective storytelling.

Lawren visits with family, friends and colleagues to learn the story behind the name aperture and what the deal is with the slash The Triad Podcast Network is proudly sponsored by The Ginther Group Real Estate, Ashley McKenzie-Sharpe of Highlands Residential Mortgage, and Three Magnolias Financial Advisors.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Viele kennen die Technik aus der Hippiezeit: Shibori ist ein altes Kunsthandwerk, um Stoffe zu färben. Hiruyoki Murase stammt aus einer Shibori-Familie. Der Modedesigner hat, als er nach Europa ging, begriffen, dass die Kunst seiner Ahnen zu verschwinden droht. Da hatte er einen Plan, sie zu retten. * Shibori ist Japanisch und bedeutet abbinden, auspressen. Es ist eine Färbetechnik, bei der der Stoff abgeschnürt, genäht oder abgeklemmt wird. * Hiroyuki Murase stammt aus Arimatsu aus Japan. Die Familien dort hatten jahrhundertelang das Exklusivrecht zum Stofffärben mittels Shibori-Technik. * Der heute 41-Jährige wollte nicht ins Familienunternehmen seines Vaters eintreten und ging fürs Kunststudium nach Europa. * Als Hiroyuki Murase realisierte, dass Shibori der Nachwuchs fehlt, hat er sein Modelabel Suzusan in Düsseldorf gegründet und die alte Tradition modernisiert. * Heute gibt es wieder Nachwuchs für diese alte Handwerkstradition in Arimatsu. * Was in Japan Shibori heisst, gibt es unter anderem Namen in verschiedenen Kontinenten: Es ist eine Technik, die dem Bedürfnis des Menschen zur Stoffgestaltung entspricht, weltweit. Im Podcast zu hören sind: * Hiroyuki Murase, Modedesigner in Düsseldorf. Der 41-Jährige stammt aus Arimatsu und aus einer Shibori-Färberfamilie in fünfter Generation. * Stephanie Lovász, Ethnologin und Kuratorin für Süd-, Zentral- und Ostasien am Museum der Kulturen Basel. Bei Fragen, Anregungen oder Themenvorschlägen schreibt uns: kontext@srf.ch Mehr zum Kontext Podcast: https://srf.ch/audio/kontext

Do you have questions about natural dyeing? Like, what is the most accessible way to have a go? Return-guest and natural dye expert, Amy Taylor, breaks it all down and answers all the questions submitted by CYT listeners. Support the podcast over on Patreon! Find Ms Amy Taylor at her website and on Instagram @msamytaylor. Listen to Amy's first appearance on Check Your Thread: Episode #13: Natural Dyeing with Amy Taylor. The naturally dye skeins I found at Seedy Sunday in Brighton in February 2023: Listen to Episode #52: Grow, Cook, Dye, Wear with Bella Gonshorovitz. Amy is a big fan of Bella's book, Bella's book, ‘Grow, Cook, Dye, Wear – From seed to style the sustainable way'. Read the article Amy wrote with her dad, ‘Art at the edge of chaos: Shibori and Indigo'. Amy has taken a class with dye stuff growing expert Kristin Field @fieldandgardner on Instagram. Amy and I both LOVE following Alexis Nikole AKA @blackforager on Instagram. Recommended reading: ‘Braiding Sweetgrass' by Robin Wall Kimmerer:

⁉️ La couleur végétale vous connaissez ? Je vous présente ArtEcoVert,

Plonger dans le bain, c'est ce qui nous a tant séduites en venant à la rencontre de Stéphanie dans sa boutique Ottuno au Flon à Lausanne. En toute simplicité comme à l'image de sa créatrice, notre découverte d'Ottuno se fait au gré de nos explorations déco_deko! Stéphanie nous ouvre les portes de sa boutique pour nous immerger instantanément dans la teinture au cœur de son atelier et des créations en cours. C'est lumineux, épuré, avec au centre, la pièce maîtresse de toutes ses réalisations: la cuve. La technique de teinture végétale, d'abord intuitive pour Stéphanie, est fortement inspirée de celle du japon nommée Shibori, ici appelée Dying. Le jeu de bain de teinture associé à des pliages du textile révèle des zones teintées de facon aléatoire. C'est aussi ce qui fait l'unicité de chaque pièce, la répétition est impossible. Jouer avec les couleurs, le tissu et ses propriétés, ainsi que le pliage permet de garder la magie du résultat à chaque création. Ce qui fait vibrer Stéphanie, c'est découvrir après chaque bain une création unique. Les couleurs naturelles donnent un résultat juste maîtrisé avec sa petite part de surprise. Tombée par hasard dans le monde de la teinture sur textile, Stéphanie est aujourd'hui convaincue d'être à sa place. Sa grande douceur, sa subtile sensibilité se retrouvent dans ses teintures chaudes et douillettes au toucher, au regard. Les nuances sont délicates, comme le soin apporté par Stéphanie pour rendre ses créations abouties et belles. Faire une place à Ottuno dans votre intérieur c'est y faire entrer l'univers de la teinture végétale, avec des pièces en lin uniques.

Peter Ciesla is a self-taught textile artist born in Wroclaw, Poland in 1961. Growing up surrounded by theater, visual art and music, he developed a love for textiles and fashion. Peter started experimenting with textiles at age 11 designing and creating street fashion, as well as costume for theatre and dance performances. He emigrated to the United States in 1991 and immediately focused on developing a career as an artist/designer opening “Creative Apparel Design” in Chicago, Illinois. He spent the 1990's focusing on custom couture work, learning the painstaking attention to detail that this work requires. In addition he developed an art-to-wear clothing and jewelry line during this time, as the Millennium approached. The present incarnation of his business, Bazyli Studio, was launched in 2002. Peter based it in Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin together with his life partner and artist, Skye. They combined their talents and efforts to create their unique, one-of-a-kind, sculptural beaded jewelry line. Their work has national recognition and has won numerous awards. Although Peter continued to design art-to-wear in the 2000's, most of his energy went into hand crafting Bazyli jewelry. In 2012, he went back to his first passion and began designing and creating art clothing on a full time basis. In 2015, Peter and Skye opened Bazyli Studio Wearable Art Gallery in a building adjacent to their home and studios. Peter's work has always been inspired by the natural world. He has most recently developed an art clothing line integrating his own toxin free, one-of-a-kind, plant-dyed organic textiles. He works with the natural fibers of linen, cotton, silk, hemp, wool, organic when possible. He experiments with local Door County plants, nuts, berries and flowers in his natural dyeing processes. He does botanical printing along with Shibori techniques. He uses his masterful skills to manipulate textiles in a variety of ways, including surface design, texturing, application, quilting and felting techniques. He also creates his own patterns for his signature coats, jackets and vests. In developing his own plant-dyed textiles he has realized his long time dream of creating clothing with a softer ecological footprint. His deep love, appreciation and respect for the breathtaking beauty of the Door County Peninsula is reflected in his work. He looks forward to many more years of discovery and experimentation in the field of natural dyeing and in creating objects of beauty. https://www.bazylistudio.comSupport the show

Kyle Anderson aka The Demon King joins me on episode 5 of The METALBIRB Podcast to speak on the history and future of Brand Of Sacrifice, cleans in deathcore and the new wave of heavy metal, his influences, anime like Berserk, Shibori Threads, Japan, The Afterimage, the Toronto metal scene and much more.

Catharine Ellis loved planning weaving projects, but once the warp was on the loom and the design decisions made, much of the discovery was over: with decades of experience, she knew pretty well what the finished project would be. She wasn't bored, exactly, but ready for a new direction in her weaving. Taking a class with shibori master Yoshiko Wada, she was intrigued by the way carefully placed stitches could be drawn up into pleats that became a dye resist. The traditional method does require a lot of stitching, though. Was there a way to combine the techniques and tools of handweaving with the concepts of shibori? That question became the basis for decades of sampling, exploration, and collaboration. Exactly what a woven shibori project will look like is only revealed when the gathering threads are removed, so there is an element of suspense until the entire process of weaving, crimping, and dyeing are complete. With a retirement from her longtime teaching position pending, Catharine began to consider her dye practice. The school's dye facilities—and waste water infrastructure—would be inaccessible, so her dye process would need to take a rural water supply and septic tank system into account. In classes with natural dye master Michel Garcia and collaborations with Joy Boutrup, she honed her skills in creating a range of natural colors on cellulose fabrics, especially cotton, which are considered especially difficult to dye. Her second book, The Art and Sciece of Natural Dyes with Joy Boutrup, has become the essential resource for predictable, safe, colorfast natural dyeing. Catharine Ellis's artistic practice and teaching link traditional textile practices with contemporary innovation. This episode is brought to you by: Handweaving.net https://www.datocms-assets.com/75073/1659137902-handweaving-net-logo-large-300dpi.jpg Handweaving.net (https://handweaving.net/) is the comprehensive weaving website with more than 75,000 historic and modern weaving drafts, documents, and powerful digital tools that put creativity in your hands. Now it's simple to design, color, update, and save your drafts. Our mission is to preserve the rich heritage of hand weaving and pass it down to you. Visit Handweaving.net and sign up for a subscription today! TreenwaySilks logo //www.datocms-assets.com/75073/1656653452-treenwaysilks_logo.png You'll find the largest variety of silk spinning fibers, silk yarn and silk threads & ribbons at TreenwaySilks.com (https://www.treenwaysilks.com/). Choose from a rainbow of hand-dyed colors. Love natural? Their array of wild silk and silk-blends provide choices beyond white. Treenway Silks—where superior quality and customer service are guaranteed. Links: [The Art and Sciece of Natural Dyes](https://schifferbooks.com/products/art-science-of-natural-dyes) Woven Shibori (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/629067/the-weavers-studio---woven-shibori-by-catharine-ellis/). The Studio Formulas Set for The Art and Science of Natural Dyes : 84 Cards with Recipes and Color Swatches (https://schifferbooks.com/products/the-art-and-science-of-natural-dyes) (publishing in 2023) Catharine Ellis website (https://www.ellistextiles.com/) The Dyer's Handbook: Memoirs of an 18th-Century Master Colourist (https://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/the-dyer-s-handbook.html) Yoshiko Wada (https://yoshikowada.com/)

There are many strings to Tracy Fox's bow, she describes herself as a dyer, print maker and artist creating the most beautiful art fabrics in her home studio in Manchester. She also uses her fabric to make stunning art quilts and has exhibited her work and sold her cloth at various craft shows over the years. It was at one of those shows, the Nantwich Quilters Exhibition and Fabric Sale, that she was approached to take over the management and running of the show, which she has done ever since. Five years on, she's now launching another show, this time in Manchester - The Great Northern Textile Show will take place later this month.The Great Northern Textile Show will showcase crafts people and artists from the worlds of textiles, quilting, yarn crafts, embroidery, felting, spinning and other disciplines. There will also be craft guilds and organisations on hand to help visitors learn new skills if they want to add to their own repertoires.I went along to Tracy's home studio to hear about her own creative journey, the way she creates her beautiful fabrics and what she uses them for along with her hopes for The Great Northern Textile Show too.You can find Tracy's website here, as well as her Facebook & Instagram accounts.More information about the Great Northern Textile Show can be found here.To join the mailing list for the new Making Stitches Newsletter, please click onto this link.For full show notes for this episode, please visit the Making Stitches website.The music featured in this episode is Make You Smile by RGMusic from Melody Loops.The Making Stitches logo was designed by Neil Warburton at iamunknown.You can support Making Stitches Podcast with running costs through Ko-fi.Making Stitches  Podcast is supported by the Making Stitches Shop which offers Making Stitches Podcast merchandise for sale as well as Up the Garden Path crochet patterns created by me & illustrated by Emma Jackson.Making Stitches Podcast is presented, recorded and edited by Lindsay Weston.

Fashion insider besties.....this is going to be epic. So, as you know, Holly spent last week at New York Fashion week, dragging herself from hair and make-up to fashion show after fashion show – ALL FOR YOU......just sayin.   Consider this reseach for the greater good, because this is what will determine what YOU will be wanting to wear in the next few months, albeit, translated into real clothes for real people.   Here's the deal: Fashion Week previews the art of fashion designers. That art is paraded down cat walks and photographed, and then shared a zillion times on Instagram.    THEN, it goes into the heads of mass market fashion producers, watered down to be wearable, and re-interpreted and produced by everyone from boutique designers to box stores. THAT is how the latest trends come to you.    So, if you hear Holly talking about a ‘windowpane petticoat” do not stop listening. This is a precursor to what is coming your way.    Get the latest episode here!   If you're not sure how the fashion cycle works, this is a quick fashion lesson:   Trends from Europe come over to the United States. They get shown on the runway, and then what's known as the trickle-down effect happens in the market. This means that what's on the runway gets reinterpreted and knocked-off by several different companies to reflect what the trends are for that current season for the general public.    So, for example, let's say you see a mesh cage petticoat on the runway - which Holly did see - 99% of the people at the show would say: “That's amazing! It's a piece of art. It's incredible! The construction is to die for!”    In addition to those comments, Holly would say: “Who is actually going to wear that?”   Well, other designers will take that particular style and make an “idea of that style” adaptable to the mass market.    It may have started as windowpane cage petticoat. But then it turns into something that simulates the artistic style. Maybe it's a black skirt with a windowpane print that looks like a structured petticoat with a tulle or crinoline skirt.    This would give the idea of the petticoat. One that might go into actual production for a label.    “Mass market companies want to emulate a trend so it's adaptable and make sense for a mass market crowd. If you're more confused than ever, keep listening! Brands that cater to mass markets take the idea of a trend and break it down and make it less scary for us regular folk.”    – Holly Katz, your favorite personal stylist Top Fall 2022 Trends | See Holly's Pinterest Board for Images:   Neon: The first trend Holly loved - and saw at almost every fashion show - was COLOR!! More specifically, pink, purple, orange and highlighter neon colors. This goes for men as well as women.    Yes, neon is still here. The brighter and louder, the better.    There are so many ways to interpret color. One being taking ONE piece of your outfit, like a shoe, a bag, or a blazer, and pick a color so outrageous, that it stands out as the star of your outfit.    Holly saw someone last week in neon yellow everything: jacket, shorts, thigh-high boots, and even accessories. It was not hard to spot her, but for adaptation to everyday life, remember: less is more!!!   This look is certainly a conversation starter, and it is a great way to take a fashion risk without getting crazy.    Crochet Everything:   When we say ‘crochet,” we mean crochet everything: pants, tops, bathing suits, jackets, dresses, everything!    When you think of crochet, the first thing most people immediately think of is: “Oh, you can see through it!” Because if the weave is not tight, then you will be able to see through it.    However, you can easily work with a crochet top by pairing it with a cami underneath. When you see the crochet dress designs, you can think of two things: wear it over a bathing suit on vacation - or simply wear it with a full slip underneath. Denim, but:    We know that sounds obvious, but denim is all the rage right now! Look for a more relaxed fit that sits lower on the hip. Very loose in the legs. Think of a boyfriend cut or stovepipe leg that is straight all the way down.    If you are rail thin, lower on the waist or low rise looks really great. But if you're curvy, you can simulate that look by wearing a mid-rise looser fit. (If you have any additional questions about denim, go back and listen to Episode 65 called “The Deal with Denim and hopefully you can get a more specific information.)   Tie Dye:   There's certainly a way to wear tie dye that looks sophisticated. When wearing tie dye, less is more. Holly has been seeing it more and more with intricate dyeing techniques like ice dyeing and something called Shibori print dyeing.    Ulla Johnson had some of the most intricate tie dye designs in her separates and dresses, along with Naeem Khan. Holly was not invited to these shows, (completely rude), but boy does she wish she was.    Just a little sidebar for all you insider besties out there that just wear black every day:  We know it's super easy to fall into that trap, but for God's sake, try something different for once! Wearing bold out of the box colors is super chic as well.    Flowers and Floral  Appliques:   Now, we know what you're thinking: floral prints... big deal. But no. This is different. This is a giant flower application and larger-than-life flowers.   One brand to check out is the shoe brand is called Cecilia New York, by Ashley Cole. She's one of the nicest people Holly has ever met, and she's just got some of the cutest shoes we've ever seen. And for a very decent price point. Pictures from the presentation of course are going to be on Holly's Pinterest board.  She has giant flowers on her shoes and we love them so much.    For clothing: you must see PatBO who had GIANT flowers on their designs, as well as Markarian, who had beautiful embroidered flowers. Giant applications -which is all the rage right now.   Metallics   First of all, everything was metallic going up and down the runway: Jackets, Pants, Skirts, Boots – ALL the boots were metallic; especailly at the Tom Ford Show; which Holly attended this season.   Remember: When it comes to metallics, wear them with solids, and let the metallic piece be the star!   Lace   Hollys love this trend! She really loves a lace moment - but it's got to be done tastefully (just like when you were in High School, people!!).   Lace tops, pants, shorts, jackets, skirts, etc. Lace really never technically goes out of style, per se, but when several designers show it on the runway - it is considered “back”, and of course, both in neutrals and bright colors alike.   International Global Dressing:   This is cultural styling by international designers who are bringing their cultural dressing to the runway and American buyers. Look for designers like Silvia Tcherassi from Columbia and Raquel Orozco from Mexico.  In Summary:   Remember:    Color! Orange, purple, metallics, lace, flowers, giant flower appliques, tie dye, denim, crochet, highlighter colors. There are so many trends out right now. This is what you will soon be seeing in the stores.    You can do this! You don't have to do all these trends. Just pick one trend that you like and go for it.   If you need more help, remember to see Holly's Pinterest board so you can see some of the trends and how you can apply them to your everyday wardrobe.    That's it for this week! Send Holly your fashion trend questions – via email or DM on social!   FASHION CRIMES PODCAST “The Best Fashion Friend You Never Knew You Needed”   Hosted by personal stylist, Holly Katz.   www.fashioncrimespodcast.com

On today's episode we talked with Lucky Star instructor Alexis Lane-Sanders.  Alexis is a creative who loves to dabble in a little bit of everything. The process of learning and trying something new is where she finds her joy. Her creative outlets include knitting, sewing, wire working, resin, embroidery, and gardening. When she isn't working on a project, she's curled up in a comfy chair with a good book.  Alexis lives in Austin, Tx with her husband and two kiddos (super cute chaos gremlins). In her professional life, she is a small home designer and licensed interior designer.  You can find Alexis on https://www.facebook.com/alexis.lane (Facebook) and https://pin.it/6HolR6e (Pinterest) Lucky Star 2022 Classes:  Getting Crafty with Resin, Shibori & Natural Dyes, Sashiko Embroidery & Mending *********************************************************************************** Lucky Star is a women's art and whole living sleepaway camp that takes place each fall in the Texas hill country. This is no art retreat in a hotel conference room…and no, we're not camping in tents… we're actually “glamping” in climate controlled cabins that are built into the hillside overlooking the Guadalupe River, and we're eating gourmet, chef-prepared food in a dining hall like we're at Hogwarts!  We're fully immersed in creative workshops like jewelry making, astrology, mixed media collage, apothecary, abstract painting, writing, sewing, yoga, welding, pottery, and we've even had classes on raising alpacas and tomahawk throwing!  No dishes, no laundry, no driving kids, and no deadlines or demanding bosses.  Just a solid five days to be YOU because we believe in the importance of discovering/reigniting the authentic part of you that makes you feel ALIVE and we know that CREATIVITY can be a powerful catalyst for growth, healing, self-care, connection, and just the spark you need to thrive.  When we're not at camp learning, laughing, making, and singing by the campfire, we're a thriving creative community of supportive women known as the Lucky Star Galaxy and we'd love for you to join us!   For dates and more information about our upcoming camps, visit our website at https://my.captivate.fm/www.luckystarartcamp.com (www.luckystarartcamp.com). Upcoming Camps— Lucky Star Art Camp - November 2-6, 2022 Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/luckystarartcamp/ (@luckystarartcamp) Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/luckystarartcamp (@Lucky Star) or Search https://www.facebook.com/groups/1104922463040763 (Lucky Star Galaxy)

Brasserie: Shibori-Workshop im Eupener Atelier Kunst und Bühne - Simone Vomberg bei Julia Slot

Talked with Janeen Mason, Curator, Lighthouse Art Center and Elizabeth Dashiell, Palm Beach PR. Lighthouse Art Center is a non-profit who's goal is to focus on the community and connect folks from all walks of life via art. We discussed the current exhibition, Warhol Warhol Warhol, Ray Gross Pop Art just to name a few. They also have a wide variety of classes such as: Give the Wheel a Whirl, Glass Fusion Friday, Shibori, Stacked Rings, Raku Friday and will be offering summer camp for kids in addition to the weekly afterschool sessions they run. For more info listeners can go to www.lighthousearts.org or call 561-746-3101.

You know Holly loves nothing more than hunting down new designers for y'all, and this week, we have a super-fun and super on-trend designer with us on the show: Lindsay of Made By Keeper!    This “Designer Spotlight” episode shines on Made By Keeper, who creates ice dye and reverse dye fashions. If you don't know what that is – then, helleeerrrr...that is why WE are here! #duh #youarewelcome   Designer Lindsay has been tie-dying everything she could get her hands on since she was a kid – using things like Kool-Aid and avocados, and just about anything with a strong, stainable color. (Her mother must have just LOVED that!)   “I was always a creative kid. I would rather be in art class (or theater) instead of any other class. It wasn't until I was much older that my interests broadened to more than what I could learn in a classroom. One thing that always stuck was my love for the abstract. I've never been one to be symmetrical - could never draw a human form that looked right or a bowl of fruit that was lifelike.” “Be a Fruit Loop in a bowl of Cheerios!”   - Linsday, Made By Keeper Anyway, Holly and her husband - and of course Schmutz The Wonder Doodle - were walking on the West Side one day, and found Linsday at a street market in 72nd Street all decked out in the most AMAZEBALLS tie-dye from head to toe – so of course Holly had to learn more.    Holly fell in love with Lindsay's tie-dyes (remember, she IS the best fashion friend you never knew you needed), especially the ultra-cool jogger sets, dog hoodies and adorable sets of kitchen towels and napkins. How great would those be as a summer house-warming gift!?     So, we invited Linsday to the show to tell us all about the art of tie-dye, her creations and how she started her own woman-owned business. #bosslady #brandbestie   Fashion Crime Fact: The crime it here is not wearing tie-dye, or too much tie-dye.  The crime is not taking the time to appreciate something different, and not supporting women-owned small businesses, especially lesser-known artists and creators.  We love supporting women-owned small businesses! We love to shop small. We love creative people in the fashion industry that are doing good in the world.    And by the way? These are not your Jerry Garcia tie-dyed T-shirts, folks. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but different animal entirely.   First, you should know that there are many styles and processes of tie-dying. Lindsay takes us through some of them from the traditional Batik and Shibori, to the techniques she uses which are ice dyes (yes, with ice) and reverse dyes.    Holly's Key Insights: This creative process is hard, people! It is an art form. It takes a long time to do. This is not your third-grade tie-dye. This is real, curated, thought-out, interesting, technical tie-dye. It is done in a very special way. This is bringing it back to the bare bones of what you can be wearing and how to express your creativity and your individualism.  Be sure to check out our social posts and stories to see some of Lindsay's technical processes.    You can also see more on Instagram and Etsy, where you will find all the clothing and accessories Lindsay now creates. Her fashions are unisex, and have inclusive sizes from newborn and infant, up to size up to 6X:    Joggers/Shorts Hoodies/Sweatshirts Dog Hoodies Accessories Beach Towels Kitchen Towels Ice Dyes Reverse Dyes Custom Dyes Custom Shoes   Made by Keeper's life goal? Total tie-dye world domination! Of course!    And Lindsay is right on trend with that, Fashion Friends. Because in the era of work from home (WFH), guess what people are wearing? Loungewear, comfy wear, not their pajamas.    As Holly says (and you know she says a lot), it's OK to dress casually when working from home. BUT, if you need to dive behind your couch when the doorbell rings, then you need to get yourself dressed like a real adult every morning.  #jussayin Fun Fashion Fact: Work from home does not mean you get to look like shit all day. #howtonotlooklikeshit #preach But wait, there's more. Sneaker Heads Unite! Linday is also into transforming sneakers. Most of her work is one of a kind; just by nature of the beast. But she loves getting the opportunity to take on custom projects – and sneakers have been her jam of late. This also falls into the area of sustainability: recreate your sneakers, items with stains, jeans, dye a sweater with your college colors - anything that is cotton and basically white can be transformed.    Want more style advice from Holly? Of course you do. Be sure to head over to her Pinterest boards for some of her best fashion recommendations.    That's it for this week! Be sure to download this episode where ever you get your podcasts or at https://apple.co/2XXKHfC.    FASHION CRIMES PODCAST "The Best Friend You Never Knew You Needed in Fashion"  Hosted by your favorite personal stylist, Holly Katz!   Become an FASHION INSIDER! Sign up for our newsletter, and receive a free gift from Holly today!   www.fashioncrimespodcast.com

Nhật Bản, cái nôi của nhiều thương hiệu thời trang nổi tiếng trên thế giới hiện tại. Patchwork - Kĩ thuật chắp vá từng một thời được ưa chuộng tại thời trang đường phố Việt Nam. Chúng ta biết gì về nó?

Nhật Bản, cái nôi của nhiều thương hiệu thời trang nổi tiếng trên thế giới hiện tại. Patchwork - Kĩ thuật chắp vá từng một thời được ưa chuộng tại thời trang đường phố Việt Nam. Chúng ta biết gì về nó?

I begin this show with an idea for anyone who is burdened by old resentments, memories of those who did you wrong, and just plain negative stories in your head. Sometimes those old wounds can be healed with forgiveness. Now, I'm not talking about spiritual bypass here, or simply ignoring what happened and going straight to ‘I forgive you'. Noooooooo! Instead, I'm suggesting an exercise that will quite naturally lead you back there if forgiveness is where you're ready to go. May it help to lighten your load considerably. My guest on this show is the wonderful Jenny Fong of Modern Shibori in Berkeley, CA. I actually met Jenny at a craft's fair in San Francisco one sunny Sunday this summer, and her clothing blew me away. Particularly because of her mission. For this isn't any old clothing. Each piece is uniquely created using sustainable materials, and a design rooted in an ancient Japanese technique called Shibori. Here I am, wearing one of my shirts! Here are some of the things I learned in our talk: -What exactly is Shibori and why it's so special What gives this clothing their special vibe or energy? Where the dyes come from and why it matters What is sustainable fashion? Where you can find Jenny's clothing Where the garment industry is right now in sustainability What any of this has to do with self-care… and you! May this show give you pause for thought. Is it better to have a lot of clothing? Or a few cherished items that are beautifully made and have a wonderful feeling to them? I hope you enjoy…. RESOURCES   Interested in Advertising on the show?   The Thirty Minute Exercise That Will Help You Forgive and Forget   Link to How's Your Self-Care?   Modern Shibori   A discount code for $15.00 off any purchase: SELFCARE15   Jenny Fong's email if you'd like to see her work in a private appointment Jenny Fong's statement on Sustainable Fashion   MORE ABOUT JENNY Modern Shibori was born out of a need for stylish clothing with a sustainability message offering women and men of all shapes and sizes fashionable clothing options. Founder Jenny Fong has been concerned about climate change for a long time. Her carbon footprint is minimal as she reuses her dye vats until they're exhausted, creating beautiful luscious gradients of wearable color. All of her pieces are made to exacting standards, every detail is considered and made to last.

Episode 69. Onward in our series all about "shibori" or sake pressing.  This week's episode focuses in on the Assaku-ki (compression machine), known more informally as the "yabuta" sake press.  As Xerox is to photo copies and Kleenex is to facial tissue, so is the Yabuta to the automatic sake press.  It's a sake press brand name that has become synonymous with the process itself.  The yabuta is often compared to an accordion in appearance and uses a series of frames stacked one next to another. The sake mash is pumped into the space between each frame.  Every other frame is sandwiched with a flat balloon that gets inflated and squeezes the mash, forcing the sake out the bottom, while the rice solids are held back.  The genius of the yubuta design is that the frames can then be opened up and the leftover sake lees (kasu) can be extracted.   Compared to the "fune" press, the yabuta cuts the time it takes to press the mash in half and it is the most common sake pressing method in use today.  Join us as we squeeze in another episode on the high pressure work of "shibori."

Episode 68. Another week, another sake miniseries!  This time around, John and Timothy look at the sake production step known as "shibori" or squeezing the mash in a little more detail.  At the end of fermentation, this step separates the freshly born sake from the left-over rice solids.  There are a few different methods to make this happen, and this week, we look at the classic "fune" method.  One of the most traditional ways to press sake, the fune is a large and long rectangular box into which the brewers stack up fabric bags, known as "fukuro", that are filled with sake mash. Pressing with a board from above, the bags get squeezed and the fresh sake is collected from a spout at the front bottom of the fune box, while the rice solids are held back by the fukuro bags.  This is a hands-on and labor intensive way to press sake. For some breweries, they press all their batches with a fune, while other breweries reserve fune pressing for only their more premium sakes. To finish off the work of fune pressing, listen in to learn all about the "Fukuro Punch", which sounds like a yummy cocktail, but unfortunately, is not.  If you're interested in learning more about squeezing the mash, we hope you'll stay tuned to our complete shibori series over the next few weeks - but of course, no pressure!

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Remember, we welcome comments, questions and suggested topics at thewonderpodcastQs@gmail.com   S2E07 TRANSCRIPT:   ----more---- Mark: Welcome back to The Wonder Science-Based Paganism. I'm your host Mark. Yucca: And I am Yucca. Mark: And today we are going to be talking about the association of paganism with making things crafting and cooking and baking and just all these kinds of amazing alchemical and crafty things that it seems like everybody in the pagan community does. So we're going to talk about that and its association with ritual and then talk a little bit about the things that we do and why it's, why it's so good for us. Exactly. And this is a pretty good time of year to be doing that. This is a time of year where lots of folks in the Northern hemisphere, that is, are starting to get a little bit fidgety, wanting to get going after the winter and keep their hands busy. Sure. Especially this year when we've been cooped up for, you know, pretty close to a year now with the pandemic trying to find ways to occupy ourselves productively is is a really important for just for psychological survival right now. You can only sit around and mope for so long. Yucca: Recently, we mentioned that. The seeds selling out early this year. And last year, there was actually a shortage in Mason jars. And there still is right now because so many people took up all kinds of activities that needed Mason jars, including canning or jarring, as I think they call it in Britain. Mark: Sure. Yeah, that's very interesting. I wasn't aware of the shortage of Mason jars, but it totally makes sense to me. There's this sort of cascade effect where many, many more people than usual put in gardens. Last year because they were stuck at home and it was something to do and it, it feels good to garden. And, you know, you've got this productive you know, these vegetables coming out of the ground. Yucca: And I've been meaning to do it for years anyways. Mark: Right. And then of course, the problem with that is you have all these vegetables coming out of the ground and they're doing it all at the same time. So what do you do with all that? Well, you can it or, or you pickle it and all of that involves a lot of Mason jars. So that's, that's not a surprise to me. Yucca: Half of everything on Pinterest involves Mason jars too. Mark: Oh, does it? Yucca: Yeah. Mason, jars, everything. Your fairy lights, everything is Mason jars. Mark: Yeah. Interesting. Interesting. I'm not on Pinterest. It's one of the social media I don't do. So Yucca: I had to delete it from my phone. Otherwise I'd be on all the time. Yeah. It's well, all those, all those things are designed, literally designed to keep you sucked in and on them as long as possible. So my productivity and everything else in my life went way up as soon as I got rid of those things. Mark: I'm sure. Yucca: but Hard to quit there. I mean, harder than a lot of things that we traditionally think of, difficult to quit. Mark: Well, sure. Because social media gives you positive feedback. It's not just a little hit of dopamine. It gives you these constant, ongoing little sips of dopamine from interactions and seeing how people have reacted to what you post and all that kind of stuff. So, yeah, they're very clever. Yucca: And they, and your people pressure you to get back on, Mark: Well, I'm sure. Yucca: Yeah. It's a. It's an it's an ever present siren. So anyways, we're talking about crafting, which yes. Mark: We are. And one of the things that, one of the reasons that this topic occurred to me as a good one for us to talk about is that there is a particular mental state that people get into when they do crafts it's very present. They're not thinking about the future or the past or anything. They're very focused on doing what is right in front of them. And there's this very pleasurable state of flow that goes with working on a project, being creative using your hands in that way. And then at the end, achieving a goal, having actually completed something. And that is very, very similar to the same kind of mental state and arc of a ritual. For practical purposes, it can be considered to be ritual. You know, recipe is really a ritual when you get down to it. Or, you know, if you're well enough versed with cooking, you don't use recipes. It's the same thing. Once again, you're drawing on your knowledge and pulling pieces together to create that alchemy, that results in a, in a product. Yucca: Exactly. Yeah. So there's a lot of different kinds of crafting and doing things with our hands that can get us into a place like that. Everything from, as you've been talking about cooking or more artistic things, Not that cooking isn't artistic, but maybe painting or making a sculpture or something that we would think of more traditionally as an art or as a craft. Mark: Yes. And, and actually the, the kind of the, the working section, the meat of many pagan rituals are built around those kinds of crafty activities. I just did an Imbolc. Ritual on Saturday, a virtual ritual with the atheopagan mixer group that meets on Saturdays on zoom. And and I created a little baby out of corn, shucks, a little rain baby for that will preside over my, my focus, my altar around the course of the year until Hallows, when it'll burn in the fire, go up into the sky and bring the rain back metaphorically. Speaking of course So those kinds of activities, you know, they, they give you that, that good feeling of, of achieving something. And many of them can be done in a way where there's that sort of folding the magic in quality. And, you know, as science-based paganism, science-based pagans, we don't believe in literal magic, but we certainly believe in psychological magic. And so having your intention there has you're working to put something together, can be very, very powerful. And then you have an object which is associated with particular meanings and outcomes. And that can be as simple as tying knots on a string, or it can be knitting something, crocheting, something, weaving something sculpting, as you say, a painting or drawing various kinds of writing projects, whether they're poetry or even, even kind of word maps that aren't, that aren't written prose, but instead just sort of a scatter of important words that are associated with whatever it is that you're working to do. The point is creativity. And what that means is that the, the potential is endless. We couldn't possibly list all the different things that people could do in this way on this podcast, Yucca: And some of those things that you were mentioning are. Things that are consumables that you might come back to later, like a, like a bread or the scarf, I guess you don't consume that, but you still might wear it later. And so that is a touchstone it's something that you can bring with you bring that intention with you into the future and be reminded of that. Mark: Yes, absolutely. Whether the intention that you're working with is simply to create, you know, comfort and wellbeing , and food for your family and friends. I know that I've taken a great satisfaction in making bread that can be used in in a ritual circle because it. You know, it has my love in it, right? It has, it has my attention and my skill and my caring that I, I went to the effort to do this. I have a beautiful scarf that was made by a circle sister of mine, who does it. It actually doesn't anymore, but she used to do a Japanese silk dying technique called Shibori where silk velvet is bound on a dowel and kind of crumpled down, slid down to crumple until the whole thing is wrapped around this dowel. And then it's dipped in dye. So it makes a sort of a tie dye kind of pattern. The whole thing is dyed, but there are these kind of waves of density in this beautiful silk velvet, velvet scarf. And every time I wear it, I think of her and I think of my circle and it's kind of, kind of bringing them with me. So those kinds of associations are really enriching to a life. So why don't we talk about some of the things that we do or have done? I mean over time, you know, I've a lot of the kinds of projects that I. That I work on are very computer-based. But I still count them. You know, whether it's putting right now, I'm putting together a PowerPoint presentation. I'm presenting to a UU church on the East coast next Sunday. And then later in the day, I'm presenting to the Seattle atheist church also on zoom. And so I'm putting together the presentation that I'm going to show to them, and that feels creative. It's fun. There's graphics and there's design and there's color schemes. And there's, you know, the, the written content, it's all, it's fun to do. So written things are a lot of what I do, obviously. I mean, I write books and I write poems and stuff like that. How about you? What are some of the things that you do. Yucca: Oh, well, so much. I, first of all, I love that you brought in the presentations as a, as a craft. I hadn't really thought of it that way. That's something that I spend a lot of time since I teach online. I create a lot of presentations. I'm always bringing in images and all kinds of things. And that is, it's a whole, it's a performance, it's a whole art and you're communicating on so many different levels and there's so many different stages of that. So I do that a lot. But I'm, I am always working with my hands. Although my favorite thing in the world is to just sit and just be there in, outside, somewhere in nature under the stars. But I always, my mind is always going and creating something new. So there's all the household stuff of the creating the food for the family and, and working on the garden and the home and building things. I grew up on job sites. My father was an architect builder, and so I was just always around tools. And even when we lived in little city apartments, all my power tools and annoy the neighbors with the loud noises. But also got little people right now who love the arts and crafts. And there's a lot of stuff that we just want to have that isn't available commercially. And even if it was, I just like making them anyways. So I mean, there's just so many different directions to talk about with, with what we do. Mark: Sure. I mean, particularly when you get into the area of food, the it's, it's literally infinite. And when you, when you really start to explore all the kinds of different preserves and pickles and sauces, and you know, all those different sorts of things that you can put up and save. It really makes the grocery store seem very impoverished by comparison. The available choices are really very narrow there and very you know, mainstreamed to the, the ones that are going to sell to enough people. But if you want your particular kind of pickled beets with onions, then you, you gotta make them yourself or know somebody who does. Yucca: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. In that vein, my four and a half year old daughter has requested that we not have the same breakfast twice. She's challenged me, but she wants pancakes every morning now. So, and we don't really eat grains. So I have a whole variety of all of the different, like types of flour replacements that we have got sunflower seeds that have ground up and pumpkin seeds and cassava and tiger night and all of that. And then coming up with each day of how do we make it different enough that the four-year-old accepts that it's different. So earlier it was chocolate, orange ,tigernut was what we came up with. Mark: I'm sure that went over pretty well. Yucca: it went very well. Yes Mark: The chocolate days. Those are good days. Yucca: Yeah. So that's one of the directions. But there's also kind of the, the seasonal little things that are a lot of fun to do. One of the things that we've gotten into the habit of doing is we receive boxes in the mail. More than I'd really like when I think about it, we should pull that back. But during the pandemic, it's been so much easier to get things shipped than to venture out. So we get a lot of boxes and we ended up cutting those boxes into shapes and painting them and we'll do things with whatever's happening with the season. So in the fall there were lots of, you know, Two foot long Oak Leafs and pumpkins made out of cardboard and paint and wonderful. It feels good to be thrifty in that. Because your acrylic paint doesn't cost very much for you know, one of those big tubes and all you need are the primary colors in black and white, and you can make pretty much everything. And then you just cut all those Amazon boxes up and swap them out. And the snowflakes are still up right now, but they're starting to get replaced with little springy things. like, you know, little green buds and it's just every now and then we'll just make a new one and then it gets added to our wall. So yeah. Mark: Yeah. We had a, a garland that we made of little, little wooden stars, which we interspersed with desiccated fins slices of lemon. That ended up looking like stained glass, you know, the way that they dry that way. And so we had alternating kind of lemon, suns and stars in this garland that was hanging on the piece of furniture that has now been supplanted by the new piece of furniture that we assembled. And that was, I think the last of the Yule decorations to come down. Everything else went up in a bin in the garage a little while ago. Yucca: You know, I think that you mentioned the furniture, the new furniture before we started recording. Mark: Oh, did I? Yucca: Yeah, I think that was right before we hit record. Mark: Well, my, what I was talking about there was that sense of satisfaction of, of working, you know, and assembling something and then having it be there. And I, I really command all of these sort of crafty and creative modes to people because there is a tremendous sense of. Of satisfaction and accomplishment when you've worked on something for a while and then it's done and it's there. I mean, I know that there are people that are basically religious about knitting. You know, that for whom it's something that is, is not just a pastime, but is, you know, something literally woven into their lives. So. And the same is true. Of course, about all the various artistic endeavors, people who are sculptors or painters or any of those things. Yeah, it's. I think that one of the things about being pagan is that because the archetype of the witch, right, is a crafty person the kind of person with, you know, herbs hanging in their kitchen and jars of dried herbs or panes of pressed dried herbs in frames, hanging on the walls of their house. You know, that all of that sort of crafty largely women's work is associated traditionally women's work is associated with the archetype of the witch. And I think that being a pagan gives us permission to explore a lot of these disciplines that most people don't. I know when I first got into beer brewing, itwwas because I wanted to replicate medieval style. Grew it Ailes from before the time that Cromwell took over England and mandated that all beer have hops in it. Yucca: I didn't know about that. Mark: Oh, yeah. The Puritans were appalled by beer generally because a lot of the beer that was made contained various kinds of hallucinogenic herbs. And so the Puritans decided, well, we're going to make, we're going to require all beer to have hops in it because hops are bitter and it makes you go to sleep. So. This the whole, the whole profile, the sort of psychological profile of what the experience of beer became changed radically. And now we're normalized to the idea that hops is a standard feature of beer, but it wasn't originally. Yucca: that's fascinating. Mark: There were, there were beers that were made out of things like sweet flag and bog myrtle and stuff like that that are definitely, you know, psychoactive kinds of plants, Yucca: And just want to say. Mark: bog myrtle. Yucca: So I'm sorry. I took you off track there. You were saying that you had gotten into the beer making as a way of exploring. Mark: Yes, as a way of exploring these old style beers and to see, you know, if I could make kind of ritual concoctions that would affect people psychologically and take them into a way that they could have a shared experience together. I didn't experiment with beer all that long, probably only a couple of years. And the reason in the end for that was that there is so much terrific beer available now, commercially just top notch, craft beer to be had, you know, from going to a store that I didn't see spending the 20 years to learn, to get that good. When I could just spend 10 bucks and have a six pack of something really delicious. So I switched to Mead. I switched to making honey wine of which the commercial stuff is generally terrible, Yucca: yeah. Mark: Because they they're kind of caught in this market vise where in order to make beer that's in order to make mead that is affordable enough, that it will sell at the price point that they can sell it at. They have to use really cheap, honey. And the cheap honey doesn't make very good mead. So if you want good meat, generally, you're getting it from someone who is home brewing it. And that I experimented with for many years and I made sparkling Meads with champagne, yeast and spiced Galanes and all that kind of stuff. Very, very delicious beverage. Yucca: Yeah, we do meads and more ciders than medns as well, but we'll do those The beer is intimidating to me because there's so much. But the other one that I do very regularly is kombucha and kombucha is so easy and saves you so much if you like kombucha because the, the ciders and the Meads, you have to wait a long time, your kombucha two weeks in the, or there. So it doesn't of course have the same effect as.your actually fully alcoholic drinks, but that's one that if, if people are interested in venturing into those realms, kombucha is a great starting place. Mark: Okay. Yucca: And really you don't need much more than buying one from a plain one from the store and, and getting some teabags and some sugar and you're off to go. It's that simple. Yeah. Mark: Nice for folks that don't want an alcoholic brew of some kind, but they want to experiment with these kinds of things. I should mention shrubs. Shrubs are vinegar based brews of various kinds. And so they're non-alcoholic, but they, they have a very complex flavor profile and you can make them with everything with pomegranate and thyme and you know, all the fruits, all the herbs and.they're, they're just, they're very interesting. I only learned about them a few years ago, but there's a whole kind of Renaissance of people making shrubs. Now I've seen them in restaurants and it's worth looking into. Yucca: when you say shrubs, you mean S H R U B S Mark: Yes. Just, just like a bush, but for some reason they're called shrubs and they're these drinks that are, that are based in in vinegar rather than an alcohol, you can do many of the same things as you do. You can make many of the recipes that go into cocktails using hard alcohol. Instead, you can use a diluted vinegar. And you'll get these complex and wonderful flavors without any of the alcoholic effects. So it's something that folks who don't drink often find a really interesting vein to explore. Yucca: Well, and the exploration of making vinegars. As well as your sauerkrauts, we love those. And for an even shorter period, we want to get into yogurt making. That's just your, that's your overnight, your other ones. You still have to wait several days or weeks for your other ones, but yogurt, you set that out overnight and it's ready for you in the morning. Mark: that's right. And it's, and it's yogurt. Absolutely. And people can do Keifer which is another fermented milk product. There are just all kinds of interesting things. Cheesemaking of course, which is an entire universe of exploration in and of itself. I know that one of the moderators of the atheopagan Facebook group, Rose, is a cheesemaker and she posts these pictures that have just the most delectable looking cheese. I'm really kind of a cheeseaphilic person. So Yucca: Yeah. Oh yeah. I've haven't, that's one of those dreams of one day. I want to get into the cheese-making I've never done much more than just your basic farmer's cheese. But, but one day I can imagine getting into the hard cheeses and Oh Mark: Wow. Yeah. I mean, it, it, a lot of it depends on how many steps you're willing to do. A simple clotted cream can be almost as easy as a, as a yogurt, Yucca: Okay, well, I've done those. I just didn't. Wasn't thinking of those as cheeses, but. Mark: Yeah. You know, the the sort of mascarpone cream she's sorts of things. They're very, very simple to do. But then when you get into cheddaring and you know, the age to dry cheeses and all that kind of stuff, or the other direction, the super buttery, triple crems and, and, you know, Bree kinds of things. And I could go on name-dropping cheese for a long time, but I'm going to stop now. Yucca: Yeah. So the kitchen, the kitchen is a wonderful place. And you know, the, there's a theme of a lot of the things, the foods that we've just been talking about are foods in which we are partnering with other life. And that is of course, nothing's universal with pagans, but one of the themes with many pagans that I see is a willingness to engage with the rest of the natural world. Mark: Yes, that's very true. And, and there is something, you know, I make little air quotes magical, right? About that engagement of those bacteria or those you know, or that yeast or whatever it is that causes that transformation into a new texture, a new flavor, a new. A new nature to what it is that you're putting together. So yes, it's, it's kind of natural that the kitchen become this magic place because there are all these transformations happening there all the time through the application of heat or through any of those other kinds of processes. You know the rest of the house has its, its ways of being amazing and magical itself, you know? There's this sort of stereotypical picture that I have in my mind of, you know, people sitting in chairs around a fire, just kind of working on their stuff, you know fiddling with whatever it is and talking. And that was one of the things that was wonderful about this ritual that we did yesterday Because we're on zoom. So it's more of a challenge to create that sense of connectedness, but there was this very warm glow while we, we took about 45 minutes to work on our craft projects. And then we did show a nd telln and then talked about what we were grateful for and then closed the circle. Right. And there was this just very sort of companionable feeling of everybody working on whatever their projects were in. They weren't all identical. We were working on our own things. There was lively conversation going on in the chat as well as talking verbally. And it, it, it felt like sitting around with a group of friends doing craft projects and I've missed that sort of thing a lot since the pandemic, it was really, really very special. Yucca: yeah. Mark: So what else, what else do we have? Yucca: Well, I mean, there's certainly more things to share of little ideas. But that, that sitting together thing I think is really special, whether you're doing it over zoom or in the home with your household, we, we do it over documentaries a lot. We put on documentaries in the evening. And that's fun cause they kind of go with the theme of the year. But we get to go through a lot of documentaries, cause there's a lot of nights of the year. And the kids are also getting old enough that they can start to listen to stories. We'll listen to little podcast stories and hang out and do and do things with our hands. That isn't just the screen. But one of the other ones that I wanted to share that we've been doing recently, and I think I actually sent you a photo of these. But we started, the, the kids are really interested in stars right now. So we've been doing constellations and we've been making clay figures of what the constellations are and then painting them on. So Taurus, we made a bull and you know, for Ursa major and minor, we made little bears and then painted the constellations. And we're working on orion right now, but Orion's limbs are kind of tricky. So we're going to have to figure out if he keeps falling apart. So we're going to have to figure out something else for that. But little things that, that we can do that are just little crafts that are, there's something nice about being able to accomplish something like you were talking about. And so something small that can be done, that's simple, but ties in with everything else going on in the world. Mark: Yes. Yes. And that, that then becomes another little touch point for your practice, right? It becomes another reminder that we're in a particular season and that has particular meanings to us, and nature's doing something very specific at this time. And we're, we're celebrating and connecting with that. So for our listeners, I, I guess, The two things that I'd like to say about this is first of all, don't trivialize your so-called hobbies. You know, they're not frivolous. They're not just, Oh, I'm, I'm a. I I'm, I'm just nuts because I'm so invested in doing this particular kind of craft. No, it's it adds to the happiness in your life. It adds to feelings of accomplishment and it's worthy work. So you know, that I think is, is something that. That people should really take heat of. And then the other thing is, if you don't feel like you have a lot of creative stuff going on, just try something, anything in the, in the case of. Of being sort of lost at that. Is there a particular kind of food that you really like figure out how to make that and preserve it figure out, you know, whether it's spaghetti sauce or Alfredo sauce or any of, you know just a ton of different kinds of things that you can do. And you can vary that by your diet. It's entirely possible to eat Alfredo sauce on top of spaghetti squash. You don't have to eat carbs if you don't want to. So Yucca: And if the critic shows up, listen to two episodes back. Where we talk about some strategies for dealing with that voice that shows up not just in ritual, but when we're trying to do things for ourselves that are creative, that are new. Mark: absolutely very good point. Very good point. Yeah, I, I, yes, go listen to that. That will help. I hope. So yeah. I don't think that it's a surprise that people have a pig in persuasion or perceived as being crafty or cunning, you know, clever with the hands. I, I think that there's all kinds of. Ordinary miracle making that happens every day, that these amazing transformations, I mean, when you think about it, it's sort of remarkable that when you put heat under water, it starts bubbling like mad after a while. That's kind of magical in a way. I mean, we understand why it happens. It's not mysterious, but it's still kind of magical. And that's just the very simplest kind of thing we can do. I know people that are really into tea, all kinds of herbal teas and, and actual black and green teas and aged teas and all that kind of stuff. And it's this whole world they can explore and all that's required is that you be able to heat water to a particular temperature. And to know what you like and what you don't like. So Yucca: And then, Oh, what a community you can encounter now that we have the worldwide web. Mark: yes, believe me, whatever it is that you're into. And that really goes a long way, various somebody on the internet that is also doing the same thing and probably wants to talk with you about it . So Yeah. So, so figure out what your particular, what your particular cunning is your particular set of crafts? It always seems a little sad to me when I hear from people. "Well, I'm just not creative" because honestly, I, I don't buy it. I think everybody's creative. I think it's baked into the human organism and if we're. If we're not being creative, I think it's mostly that we're not letting ourselves be creative. Yucca: And it also might just be a little bit of a, a perspectives switch. Like you started this by talking about the computer side of things, the writing and presentations. That's creative. We've talked a lot before on the podcast before about gaming, right. Are you really into D&D are you In the kitchen? Are you creating crafts? Are you gardening? Are you all of these things that we might not always think of as being crafts or creative? They really are. Mark: Yes. Yeah, indeed. They really are. And and part of the point is to celebrate that, not just to let it be. Oh yeah. Well, I went out and I fixed my car today, but. Yeah, there was a problem and I tracked it down. I figured out what it was. I went, I got the part, I removed the old part, which came out in pieces. I installed the new part, cleaned everything out, wiped it down. It started it up and everything is fine. That's, that's a good feeling. And there's every reason why you should allow it to be a good feeling. We believe in good feelings were, were for them. Yucca: Yup. Well, please continue. Mark: Well, I was going to say I think that's about all that I have to say on this topic right now. Just having the conversation inspires me to want to look into some things that I used to do and haven't done for a while and, you know, maybe. Maybe play around a little bit with some new things that I haven't done before. So especially at this time of year, when the lights are starting to come back on a little bit and we can plan for the future. It's a, it's a time to take on the idea of maybe learning something new, trying something new this year. Yucca: Exactly. Well, thank you, Mark. This was a great conversation. Mark: Thank you, Yucca. I really enjoyed it as always. We'll see you next week.

I had the amazing opportunity to connect with Anna Champagne, who is a Professional Fiber Artist, Designer and Color Healer creating vibrant and luxurious silk scarves, shawls, throws and custom fabrics. Each scarf is designed and hand-painted one-at-a-time by the Artist with dyes in beautiful uplifting colors. Anna has degrees in textiles and interior design, and has trained extensively in the holistic healing field. She is the owner of A Path of Beauty and Anna Champagne Silks, hand painting luxurious silk scarves and shawls in vibrant, healing colors and enriching people’s lives with her silks, inspirational writings, healing sessions and color healing course. Her love and interest in textiles began at a young age. She has taught classes in weaving, computer- aided design, and Shibori, and now Color Healing. Anna’s work has been exhibited in galleries from Madison Avenue, NYC to Carmel, CA, and at high-end craft shows and holistic shows in New York, Boston, etc.   Her earlier work is included in The Guild 4, A Sourcebook of American Crafts.  She was the featured artist in Sarasota Magazine, 2006. And her article Color Healing: Using Color and Divine Wisdom to Enrich Our Lives, was published in Energy Magazine, May/June 2017. “I create silks that surround people in beauty and the healing energy of color that nurtures, uplifts and inspires.  Luxurious hand painted silk scarves, shawls, and throws that are as soft as rose petals and as harmonious and peaceful as being in a beautiful garden.  Live a poetic life of beauty…Joie de Vivre in Silk!”    Anna Champagne Connect with Anna over at https://www.annachampagnesilks.com/ Interested in her silks? https://www.annachampagnesilks.com/ Anna also has a great course for those who are interested in color healing: http://www.annachampagnesilks.com/color-healing-course/ Brandon Handley 0:00 4321 Hey there spiritual dope. Thanks for joining me again today And today, we have Anna champagne. Joining us. Anna is a professional fiber artist, energy healer, teacher, author, designer and entrepreneur, owner of Anna champagne silks and a path of beauty. She has degrees in textiles and interior design as trained extensively in the holistic healing field, including emotion code, Body Code, and transformational breathing, and created color healing for a vibrant, abundant life energy healing system. And thanks so much for joining with us today. Anna Champagne 0:41 Thanks, Brandon. It's great to be here. Just so you know, sauna. I like that. Brandon Handley 0:49 Got it. Got it. Thanks. So now I'm gonna have to fix that throughout the entire way. I'm on a one of the things that I feel pretty strongly about is that When we communicate on these podcasts and when we have these conversations, there's somebody out there that needs to hear something through us and we're simply here as a you know, divine vessels call it what you will right? Call what you want but I think that somebody is tuned in today that needs to hear what from you like they need to hear this somebody needs to hear this what is it Unknown Speaker 1:31 basically Anna Champagne 1:34 that they're loved and that they can live a path of beauty You know, that's what I'm kind of live myself and share and and it just becomes a rich life and it really isn't spiritual or regular mundane or any of it. It's all one life. So the more we kind of, you know, just bring that all together and then it's really rich and colorful and beautiful. Brandon Handley 1:58 I love it. I love it. So it's not that they're not segmented life pieces for you. It's all one holistic life. Anna Champagne 2:06 Yeah. And I'm still like everyone, you know, feels deeply you know that. And I do agree with you what you're saying, because that was my prayer even before coming on. I said, you know, it's not about me, it's about you know, how I can touch someone or, you know, and I pray, can I say the words that someone is needing to hear tonight, so you know, so that was perfect. Brandon Handley 2:29 I love it. I love it. Perfect. So, you know, it looks like we've got the right person on here. One thing I do want to touch on that I know we had a little precursor conversation, you know, I caught that you studied with like Gregg Braden, Byron, and some of these other people, you know, can be a little bit about that. Right? I love these are some people that are new, newer to my life, right, but I love them. What was like one of the favorite courses or someplace that you studied with that? That was exciting for you? Um, Anna Champagne 2:58 oh, they're all wonderful. The path. Byron Katie was great. You know, I was a transformational breath facilitator and trainer, and this was the early days, but even before she became more famous, you know, she had written her first book. And we used to bring her, you know, to our trainings or to our city or even we had our first breath cruise, and we were doing breath work. And then we brought Katie along and she was teaching some things and then every night after dinner, you know, she would just show up and work with us. And, and to this day, whenever I see her, you know, and I haven't seen her in a while, but every time she says hello, Angel, and I just feel like she sees me. Fantastic. Brandon Handley 3:39 Yeah. When you say we in that, what are you who's that inclusive of? Anna Champagne 3:44 Um, that's when I was doing transformation breathing years ago, Brandon Handley 3:50 okay, that's not something you're doing right now. So much of Anna Champagne 3:52 it's it's part of me, but now I've kind of, you know, well, we'll get into it all what I'm doing, but I'm Kind of branding my own color healing system and silks and also right Brandon Handley 4:05 right so I mean yeah that I mean that that is your that is your that is what I see you doing right now that's what you presented to me you're doing textile you're doing color healing. Oh you were introduced to me by our mutual friend Mark Youngblood as a color healer. I was super intrigued about that. While I read a little bit about what you have to say in there. You know, tell us a little bit about what color healing is. Anna Champagne 4:30 Well, it's it's actually a vibrational energy healing modality. And, you know, I'm blessed to be able to as a fiber artist, I campaign on cilex campaign hand dye, and through decades of, you know, working with people and seeing what the silks do in their energy field and the specific colors like you know, like the ones I have on, I just come to see how the frequencies of light color work in our own hands. energy field and affect us and I especially work more in the emotional realm. Because, you know, of course, color affects us emotionally and as a sensitive an empath, and you know, as many people are there, you know, even people that don't think there was sensitive are, you know, so that's why color is just so important and impactful. And now when we consciously use it, we can really heal like old emotional patterns, we can raise our vibration, we can direct it for specific uses. So I'm really blessed that I get to, you know, paint and die and be immersed in color and then you know, share it with others and then and then teach it. Brandon Handley 5:47 I love that. So the colors that you're wearing today, what are they? What do they bring to me vibrationally Anna Champagne 5:53 Well, most people have heard of like Archangel Michael. And with my color healing system. It's based on like the rays of God. Consciousness so it's kind of a very spiritual at the core. And there's these divine qualities as embodied by the archangels and angels so most people have heard of Archangel Michael and we think protection but it's also focus and will and faith. And each Archangel has their divine feminine counterpart called an RPI. So with Archangel Michael it's archiv faith. So faith is a real tangible energy to so. So for me and also, you know, blues are healing you know, they're like water, they're calming. So for me doing something like this, you know, it keeps me a little focused and it's very calming to Brandon Handley 6:44 fantastic. I'm glad I'm wearing blue then to stay focused a little bit. Right. Now, I love that you mentioned to like, you know, that you've got kind of this Archangel as part of your story. Right. Let's talk a little bit about that. Right. So how does how does how did you leave archangels and angels into your path. Anna Champagne 7:03 I'm just on my spiritual path. I think I knew of Archangel Michael and things because I've been on my spiritual path most of my life and knew of Archangel Michael and especially when I was actually a young mother and this is before I got on my spiritual path about 20 years ago where I learned more in depth about the archangels and all and if anyone knows about that, you know, young mother new mother just worried and you know, and, and for me being an empath and sensitive you know, I would get like open to any thought of like any fearful thought I would feel it like so much through my body, it was just hard to deal with. So luckily, I knew of Archangel Michael and then when I started calling to them, I can actually help kind of smooth down and that anxiety and fear and then I came to help others, you know, help other, you know, mothers and just other people, you know, with that as well. And now over decades, you know, he's just, I can't I don't think any of us could really be here without Archangel Michael, whether you call him by name or now or anything here to help us on the path, Brandon Handley 8:12 you know, if somebody is not that's a terrible way to say Archangel Li, you know, aligned, what are some other kind of spiritual resonance that they might have? If so, like you said, if they don't know them is Archangel Michael, what else might they call him or that presence? Unknown Speaker 8:34 Um, Anna Champagne 8:36 I think a lot of people are aware of or interested in angels. And even when I was, you know, writing my first color healing article, and actually one of my other great mentors is Jacob Lieberman. He wrote light medicine of the future and take off your glasses and see and I studied with him, you know, years ago a lot and he's just one of my greatest mentors. was I going with that? Oh, so when I was writing the article, I wanted to create kind of an overview of things. And you know, didn't talk about the archangels too much because really color on its own and the frequencies of color can support us whether we, we connect with the angels or you know, call to them or use them consciously, but they are here to co create with us and help support us, right in a big way. And actually, my daughter who grew up with all this and you know, is just knows me the best, you know, at one point she says, Oh, Mom, you can't you can't take the angels out. That's your brand. That's who you are. You can't separate you from the angels. Nice. But I can you know, talk about color to just as we know, I Brandon Handley 9:49 think I think that you know, my question was definitely more aligned to other spiritual modalities right of Archangel Michael right. So if if I'm coming Going from a shamanistic background or just some other type of esoteric background, right? What would you would you align it to something else in those spaces? Anna Champagne 10:13 I wouldn't but people that don't have the wording might, you know, call them spirit guides or something like that? I don't really I'd like to be more specific with the as I know the different things but even you know, I have friends in shamanism and they also teach angels because it's just a different aspect of you know, frequencies and energies and you know, beings and all that so Unknown Speaker 10:41 I appreciate that. Yeah, Brandon Handley 10:42 like I said, I'm, I'm not well versed in angels, right. And so, but I do understand spirit guide, right. So you know, if if I'm running around and I'm trying to feel something and it's hard for me to again, mentally pull On an angel vibe, right right, then I might be able to pull on some others your spiritual guide God type of thing, right? So Anna Champagne 11:07 the way that I could talk about it, you know, I did shows, you know, body mind spirit, Whole Health, new life and boutique shows all kinds of things for many decades. And I would have like, you know, just all these soaks, you know, in my booth, and people would come in and I always want to empower people. So even if I knew like one that would be advantageous for them, I would always say, well, which color are you most drawn to? And then they would go and usually they would really go right to one that they would feel good in and they try it on and they feel something even if they thought you know, I don't I'm not sensitive or anything they they always are, they really can feel it and then I would put on another one that maybe was even a similar color. And they would go oh my goodness, I can tell the difference. Wow. Are they put on one that's really a contrast and what go wow, that feels even different. Sure, and then people can see that. So, really, for me, the key part is, you know, healing our trapped emotions and those emotional energies that are, you know, the sadness, grief. I mean, we're human. So we have all those things. But I know we feel better usually when it's joy and love and those kind of things. So when we take those things that are actually blocking our energy, they're not good or bad, but they can become trapped in blocker energy. So when we're healing that and then they have that flow of energy from God goddess, all that is whatever you call it, your higher self, you know, I call it my presence or that presence, so So when you're healing that and raising your vibration, my goal is really to help people connect with their highest wisdom and their highest self. Unknown Speaker 12:51 So Anna Champagne 12:53 and that's, that's really cool. I think most of you want to be most connected with Brandon Handley 12:58 Sure, sure. I thought, you know, it's Because, you know, I was actually having this thought earlier that you said, you know, it's not necessarily about you, when you enter into the show, it's like kind of what can you do in service of but yeah, on it, it is about you, right? It is about you connecting with your highest self and just being in that space for a moment and just accepting that nobody needs anything from you, but you've got someone that you're willing to give. Right. You know, let's talk a little bit more about the angel part though, because they're, you know, like I said, I was able to listen to one podcast that you were interviewed on earlier and you've got this amazing, kind, amazing Angel story. Once you just kind of shares sure that part. Anna Champagne 13:43 I do and I actually have my good old Angel book that I was actually visiting a friend I live in Florida now and I was in New England visiting friend and went to my car to get NINJA book and so Someone actually tried to kill me she was mentally unstable. I didn't know her, but she was known to people and, you know, without going into this story, but still someone tried to find me over with a car. Wow. And because of it, I was hit by the car. But as I was walking, I just was like looking down. And it's like, what's going on with my ankle or my leg, you know, and then before I knew, and I just was like, kind of falling or whatever, but really ended up hitting the ankle and shattered my ankle and foot and left leg and all that. And afterwards, I you know, and I've had, you know, surgeries, and I mean, it was, it was quite a karmic thing. Quite a big deal in my life and in a real healing journey that came from it. But when I asked friends like on my spiritual path, I said, How could this have happened, you know, I'm so devout are just so connected and spiritual. And they said, it's because of that, that the angel saved your life. Hmm. And I'm getting chills even telling you that because I just feel it's so true. And I vowed to all my healing journey to help people in whatever way I can what I learned through all the healing that I did through it, but they really did save my life. Brandon Handley 15:18 I get it. So um, you know, you mentioned that you've been on the spiritual path pretty much your entire life. And so you already had this vibrational awareness right? You already had this holistic awareness and once you got involved with fabrics and colors, it wasn't a simple transition for you into the vibrational colors. Anna Champagne 15:46 Well, yes and no, I mean, it was one of those being sensitive and you know, sometimes feeling really lonely even if a family are feeling different, as many people describe often and just Just getting into, you know, loving being in nature or writing poetry or doing things, you know, different things like that. And just just feeling like the search. So even when I was little, I would, you know, go to the library and search even when I was little for certain things, you know, along the way. So, so it's kind of just been a journey, like many people, you know, you know, pursue this pursue that, you know, learn about this, see how it feels, you know, and, and then just keep growing that way. So it wasn't, you know, and it's not like my parents were all conscious. And, you know, we grew up the main girl, and then that kind of thing. So they weren't holistic in the least, and they still aren't. But even through that, I realized through the years, especially as I'm learning things, and you're all excited to share with your family and help them and, you know, they're like, thank you, but you know, believe what you believe or not interested. Yeah, the greatest thing I learned, especially with my dad was The greatest thing we could do for healing for someone was to love them unconditionally. Sure. And it didn't matter. All those differences. Brandon Handley 17:10 Right. Right. Now listen, I mean, when I first had, you know, what I would classify as an awakening experience, not wanting to run around, and I guess I guess that's, I guess that's kind of the whole the gospel part of the gospel thing. You've got to hear this good news. Why don't I tell them all about this? wait a year round? This Unknown Speaker 17:28 is awesome. Um, and, Brandon Handley 17:31 yeah, it's not everybody's path. Right? It's not everybody's path. But it's still it's, you know, I guess when you're vibing. So hard, right. It's like, What do you mean, you don't see it this way? And how can you not feel this way? And why wouldn't you go down this path? And like you said, it's when we just step back and love them, unconditionally? who they are the way they are right now. Yeah. can't do much more than that, right? Anna Champagne 18:01 What's tills? True? And you know, to answer more of your question. I went to school for English and weaving because I started weaving when I was about 16. And I was always doing kind of crafts and things and knitting and crochet and all that because my mother grandmother, so even when I was in textile school, for my BFA in textiles and fiber, I, you know, I started then I actually painted on really fine silk threads and wove them into scarves and shawls and will wall pieces, please. And yet, I was still gathering, you know, all the spiritual books and I was starting to get some books on color and chakras and different things like that. But I didn't read most of them years later. And the reason I realized was because I had to kind of develop my own sense of it, of the color and kind of learn it from within a little bit more of the code. So one time I remember when I was you know, I I think I was starting to, you know, maybe it was after I was at a school. And I was just questioning, you know, that format of the scarves and shawls. And then I opened one of those books and it said, Yeah, you want to wear the silks over your throat and heart chakras and I'm like, okay, that's the answer. And you know, so I still kind of use that that form of the silks and the shawls I mean, the scarves in the shells Brandon Handley 19:26 when you say that form the you mean by put it over your chakras? Anna Champagne 19:31 Yeah, I was just in one of those color healing books. It kind of answered that that it's really advantageous a lot of times to where over your throat or your heart Brandon Handley 19:40 Alright, so when you're when you're when you were starting your spiritual journey picking up all these books, what kind of books were you picking up? Like? What was what was the opening of the doors for you? I guess as it were, Anna Champagne 19:53 um, there's been so many through the years I do collect wisdom Brandon Handley 19:58 right right there in the beginning, right. So I mean, you're you're picking up all these books, you hadn't quite read them, but they were of interest to you Anna Champagne 20:04 somewhere the color healing somewhere. Well, even earlier, you know, when I was 16 I was meditating at a friend's house because her parents were into Edgar Casey, airy, and all that. So, you know, I had my first and then and then when we were in Boston, I actually, you know, my then husband and I, we went to his son or I think grandson, we went to a workshop and thing, were part of that for a while, and then it always comes full circle that I wasn't into it for years. And then I was, you know, going to some conferences a few years ago and even speaking at a conference and Kevin Tedeschi who's the, you know, the head guy at the Aerie now and wrote all the books on so he's kind of a friend now too. So it's so interesting and yeah, it was it was all kinds of things. Or they you know, I mean, sometimes it was healing some obscure things like fear of, like fears and aliens and you know like I remember with Gregg Braden, I've healed a big piece of that, you know? Unknown Speaker 21:18 Tell me about that. Yeah. Yeah, that Anna Champagne 21:21 was interesting. Um, it was funny because I was one of the last people at his you know, the workshop for that day and we were at this conference center or somewhere and I was like in a dorm and I remember we were talking it was years ago you know, decades ago when you know, he's gone through different things that he's taught Sure. And some of it was bringing up like so much fear about you know, the some of the alien you know energies and and they're all frequency now they're all different vibrations so and then my my roommate didn't show up so like all night I'm like, you know, all afraid this, you know, sheets up and I had to go deeper within and then and then through it. I just I really did heal it. And now I say, you know, the same aliens that are more than negative ones that, you know, maybe want to, you know harm or they're just a lower vibration. Sure they can't touch me anymore because it's so that was just part of like the healing on the journey that I went through. So now you know and then there's other ones like I heart, you know connect with the Pleiadians and then I do paintings that were pleading and writing so, so it was pretty diverse. Brandon Handley 22:35 Interesting. I love that I love it. I love what you did there too with um, you know, translating harm into just recognizing that the third a lower vibration, right? It is not like I like that too. Right? So that that's interesting for sure. So you've been living this life fairly steeped in spirituality. All right. Yeah, and I can't remember now already, if we talked about the beginning or not, but like, integrating Yeah, we started at the beginning, but like integrating all the whole has certainly been a challenge for me. You know, trying to say, Oh, this is this is my spiritual self. This is what I do when I'm being spiritual. And this is what I do and, you know, all these other spaces. Can you talk a little bit about, you know, practical spiritual integration? Well, so, you know, what's that mean to you? If I say something I asked you that. Anna Champagne 23:31 Yeah. Well, that's what I really love teaching and helping people with, you know, and I'm still going through it myself. I'm constantly hitting things that come up for me and then having, you know, using different tools to heal like some of the emotional patterns and things like that. But, um, I think it's just, I think one of the biggest thing is really healing being present to what comes up and not judging it. So You know, and that's what I learned especially from Katie you know, Byron Katie, you know, you take those judgments you take that anger you take that fear, you know, whatever it is and and then you investigate and then you can you know, go deeper and especially, you know when you you see it's just kind of a projection to like wearing me like I'm angry at that person but really, where's that pattern in me and then when you so so if you keep bringing it back to yourself in a gentle way because you never want to be hard on yourselves because like I know that pattern and right so it's, it's it's just and I have seen you you know, I watched your you know, your dad podcast thing or you know, whatever that was. And even if you I mean, and I don't know you so well, you know, but just the love that and just the the way you were showing up with your son I mean, I'm getting emotional because I was sent to and I was daughter but It touched me because you're just present. And you're asking him his experience. And then you're sweeping in a little, you know, teaching to be a good person or to just just weaving in those nuggets of goodness, Brandon Handley 25:16 you try, right? Well, you know, listen in here, you know, for what it's worth. You know, my mom was a, you know, so I was born in San Francisco in the late 70s. So, that's an indicator of where I came from. I always taught like, the awareness always taught, like these kind of life lessons. And they were definitely seeds, right, because they were, they were falling on fallow ground or whatever, whatever. And it wasn't until later, when they all just kind of sprouted and honestly, when I talked about going through that experience, kind of the awakening experience, it was like all at the same time, like everything she was talking about, just like, there it is. And so that's all you know, I feel like I can try and do with the kids right on my boys and just have those conversations. Not force it on them, but give them those seeds. Right. And, you know, if it's some I feel like at some point in their lives, though, they'll turn around and dust off will sprout up Anna Champagne 26:12 exactly like with my son, he would, you know, like roll his eyes like I just want to be normal know, he's at times you know cutting out these little swords and you know things of and you know connecting with you know, he'll deny a lot of it now but you know, but he's such a good person you know, this really is so Brandon Handley 26:33 well i think what we were saying earlier it's everyone's on their own path, right? I don't I mean, I don't think I have a Bible or have ever read more than the six pages in a Bible. But we can really try and do is be good shepherds, right of these souls or whatever. Um, but this is about you. So we're back to you now. And so what would be like a couple tools I love you gave kind of the one example is like look for that within yourself, right that's causing that or is a part of you? Right? What what, where's that irritation that's party? You know, I saw I saw a little line today that I really like to as it relates to emotions. I'd love to hear your feedback on this is there's emotional control. Right, which is I think a very Western actually I think every culture has emotional control, right? versus emotional expression. Mm hmm. How would you differentiate those two things because I feel like you would have a good, good way to do that. Anna Champagne 27:33 I call it really a path of emotional mastery. Hmm. Because it's not just trying to control how you're feeling because the pattern will come up, you know, it'll just keep coming up until we deal with things. And now you know, globally where we've had an experience of something big happening globally, where we're going you know, sheltering in place home, you know, a lot of fear a lot of uncertainty on These kind of things, and I still just see it as, like the greatest gift because we can't bring in what I call a golden age without bringing to light those patterns. So it's not just about expression, you know, I think, you know, because we're always creating and we're always expressing whether it's expressing love or expressing anger, you know, or sadness, you know, it's expression but it's when it when we feel like that underlying like, we call it kind of miss qualified pattern. So like, say we haven't, oh, like, like, you know, say we have an experience and it's, you know, really overwhelming or traumatic or anything. And things get and we might not even know how to process it at the moment or deal with it. And then and but then it starts coloring everything we do in life. And then, but usually we can tell by how we're feeling, you know, if we're having Are were not so happy, that's usually an indicator how we're feeling and work with thing. Brandon Handley 29:07 And that kind of addresses the, again expression versus control, like, because we were talking earlier too about, you know, locating that feeling, right? The anger or the frustration if we go to suppress that or redirect it, is that really healing it or addressing it? Right and and i think that that's, personally that's what I've done to try to emotionally master or control right redirect. But I feel like there's would be a another way to express that because I don't want to hold on to that energy like that. Right. So Unknown Speaker 29:47 what would you say there? Anna Champagne 29:50 You can tell by when you say go back to a memory that was really painful. And you know, so you did And this is where I say the violet ray you know of trance transformation transmutation, you know, taking that same God energy as I talked about, and then transmuting it like freeing up the, you know, whatever traumatic emotions are there, and then it's kind of at the core, and then we can recollect it or we can use it for what we want. And it really comes back to our intention to what we really want to create in our life. Yeah, so the stronger our positive intentions, those things will just naturally come up. And if it just ends, they'll just keep coming up until we like pay attention or we might get sick or, you know, just just so unhappy or whatever it is. So, but, but there's also a way to do it. It's good to just start being aware of what you're feeling or how you're feeling in your body. But another way to do it, too, is to keep focusing on the higher vibrational states or what you do want to create because that'll just automatically start in training up. It's just entrainment, you know, physics of training that lower vibrational state into that higher vibrational state. And that's kind of what I call a lot of the path of beauty or even, you know, working with those divine qualities. You can just and actually, that's another tool to you know, you can have a state and then do affirmations and crease, things like that you can actually raise the vibration of that pattern. Brandon Handley 31:32 I like that. I like that. Unknown Speaker 31:34 I feel like Unknown Speaker 31:38 you know, Brandon Handley 31:40 raising your vibrational state through affirmations, and gratitude. I think a lot of people look at that as purely mental exercise. What do you say to that? Anna Champagne 31:56 It's not like we're using our mind because we're choosing to and it's what we're giving power to. So if we're saying you know, like I am the presence or I am you know, whatever we want to put after saying I am affirmation You know, there's you know, with the law of attraction, all that kind of stuff if you're if you're saying something that you don't believe then that'll even cause more resistance. You know, I'm a millionaire and you're you know, you got three cents in your bank account Well, that's gonna it's not gonna resonate, but if you can get in touch with the energy of it, you know, like it's it's feeling into it really. I think more so but but you do use your mind and your thoughts Brandon Handley 32:43 talking to more about feeling into it, though. Anna Champagne 32:51 I think it comes down to getting more harmonious no matter you know what color you're using, or what Whatever tool you're using, if you're still agitated, then it's not really working. So if you can feel more harmonious, calm, you know, the breath is a really important thing to kind of stop that fight or flight, you know, just using the breath, and then just start feeling more calm. Then, then when you say, when you say an affirmation or things something or, um, or want to access, you know, just want to just x more peacefulness or happiness or, you know, whatever it is it you'll just, it'll, you'll feel it. But you're not going to feel it if you're all agitated, you know. And so, you know, it's like, it's like the analogy of, you know, the parent who's got the baby, and they're just like, just come down Baby, you know, like they're, you know, I never can understand that. You know, But But I learned that you know, years ago so that's where we always taught the parents first, you know, read to become, you know, if you're lying with your child at night, you know, rubbing their backs as you're breathing. Because if you're all you know, stressful, they're going to feel it. Yeah. Brandon Handley 34:19 One of the coolest feelings to write when you're going to sleep but I missed I missed the miss my kids you know when they're just growing up you can just kind of fall asleep with them on your chest right? Yeah, yeah, love that. Love that miss it. Like where they are now though. It's okay. So, you know, are you still traveling with your art shows? Are you still doing that? Like? Anna Champagne 34:42 Nobody shows anymore? Sometimes by invitation, you know, a few things, but mostly I'm switching over online. Okay. And teaching courses online and things like that. Brandon Handley 34:54 Right? When you were out of curiosity, right. So just for anybody that's kind of interested in The type of work that you're doing and would be thinking about doing it themselves. How would they kind of get involved in the community that you were involved with? With the art shows and textiles? Anna Champagne 35:14 Well, it's really an art. I mean, it's decades of lifetimes Actually, I've done this in many lifetimes. It's, you know, um, it's going with what interests you, too, you know, I mean, mostly, I'm selling the silks that they're using, you know, in their meditations or just everyday wear or even you know, you know, that's why I sell a lot to men as well as women you know, to wear because they carry that tangible vibration. So it makes it easier to access those states and things. But, you know, sometimes I have taught some of the, you know, I used to teach weaving I used to teach shabari and which is a dyeing technique. You know, I do love, you know, doing a lot of that stuff. But, you know, an easy way is just watercolor paints or you know, even even coloring on dollars, you know, that can just get you in a, you know, working with color and with pencils or markers or things like that, or, or just even watercolor, you know, it doesn't even have to be a form. It could just be working with the paint like that if you're talking about doing something that's more artistic or if that's what you're kind of asking. Brandon Handley 36:33 That's definitely one part right kind of getting into the art itself, but the shows right? I'm sure you invited to him because you were great at what you were doing. But like also, if somebody else was like, what types of shows were you featured in so that somebody if they saw them, they'd be able to go and kind of find out more of themselves? Anna Champagne 36:52 The shows, I mean, I was in the high end crashes when I first got out of college and was, you know, doing those handpainted handball Then Yeah. And then I had galleries around the country. And then when I got into still just painting on silks and doing like transformational breath work and being a trainer, then I was in like New York and Boston. I'm from New England. So I would do like Whole Health, new life, body mind spirit, you know, a lot of those kind of shows. Brandon Handley 37:20 Okay. I've never heard of those shows before. So I mean, that's interesting. Yeah. And Anna Champagne 37:24 it's still go on, um, you know, some of them anyway. Brandon Handley 37:28 Yeah. That's interesting, too. I mean, I guess a New England part of, you know, what was the new age? Unknown Speaker 37:35 birthing spot, right. I mean, am I wrong? Anna Champagne 37:39 I don't know. I think California's where you grew up is pretty cool. I mean, Brandon Handley 37:45 I think I think that, you know, I think of I'm trying to think of who was the press, you know, the press company that came out with the kind of the New Age movement, right, um, Anna Champagne 37:57 dress or no, Brandon Handley 37:59 I can't really remember off the top of my head, but it's just interesting to see that there's still a vibrant spiritual community from there, right in that space. So I think that that's pretty interesting. You did. So you mentioned you mentioned your course and your shops. I wanted to bring that up too. So talk to us a little bit about the the course offering that you have right now online. Anna Champagne 38:20 Yeah, it's an eight week online course it's called color healing for a vibrant abundant life seven steps to heal what's holding you back and increase your flow of abundance and that's those kind of seven spiritual colors, you know, those rays and you actually get a set of seven, you know, solid color sticks with it, it needs you know, once a week for eight weeks, you know, an online student class and then you have a portal with the meditations, affirmations, you know, the class content you know, more you know, all of it, but it's really meant to be for busy people. You know, everyone's really busy in life and you don't i don't want to make this Like this heavy like something they just not do or else feel so overwhelmed. So that's what's cool about you know, with with the silks because you just wear them you know through the week like each week we're learning about one color. So like for example like the solid color you know we've got the golden yellow or you know pink or you know the blues violets you know these solid colors, and you wear them during class and wear them during your meditations and the meditations tend to be seven to nine minutes maybe and just get you in touch with the divine qualities even archangels but more of the divine qualities of the color and just get you and then wearing them. It helps you know to tangibly feel so it's because there's silk has the highest vibration of fiber. The very pure colors are frequencies and you know, if you think White is like all colors, you know, of light You know, ones additive and subtractive whether it's you know, crayons, or paints versus light, and then, you know, it's easy to think, you know, the prism and the rainbow, you know, it's broken up in those frequencies. Sure. So, um, yeah, so it's, it's really, it's, it's fun and it's, it's just a easy so going back to that, so the soaks have that highest vibration, and then the pure colors, those frequencies and then the energies that I'm kind of praying in or attending in. So that's what makes them where you can actually feel the energy. So it's an added tool to be able to wear them and start feeling the energies as you're as you're learning them Brandon Handley 40:50 about them. I mean, I love that right? Because I can I can feel the application right? You know, I can I can I can sense I get a good sense of have kind of how you would direct that. And I feel like that would be, that would be like it's beneficial, right? Anytime he's been, I think consciously tending to your vibrations. that's beneficial. So it sounds to me like that's kind of what you're doing is teaching people how to pay attention to their vibrations, right at what levels and then being able to associate them with specific colors, right, so that they can really just kind of hone in and have an anchor point. Anna Champagne 41:29 Right. So like, even with the emotion code, say we identify a trapped emotion, say it's grief. And it happened when you were 13. You know, and then, you know, we get shifted, but then you know, we'll put like a soft pink silk over and that'll like raise the vibration. So it's still really key for me to be healing those emotional patterns that are kind of blocking that flow of energy. Brandon Handley 41:52 So would you classify this more of a healing class? Yeah. Okay. I mean, I mean, look, that's great. Yeah. I mean I love it because it might just be a guy thing right? Or you know could just be a me thing I've never really kind of addressed this one but like you know we were taught to like you know, you fall down you dust off and you keep on going forward you know you don't really address the specific pains you just move forward you don't address the specific moments that cause you to no question 90% of your life you just keep moving forward right but if you do take a little bit of time and and heal those moments Anna Champagne 42:33 and you know, a lot of men do this, you know, as a spiritual path to I mean, a lot of men do have my silks too because they wear them for meditation. Tell me what are some favorite main colors? I mean, Brandon Handley 42:41 other than blue, what are some what are some what are some main colors? Anna Champagne 42:45 Some are the those turquoise is in blues and violets some sometimes, you know more the emerald green, but actually one of my first soaps that I made like decades ago when I'm My first shows ever did with them. There was this just big guy you know and he he got the most feminine so good made to that point with yell, you know pinks and yellows and actually I have a great story about that I was at a show one time, and a guy came and usually like I do have like these, um, you know, you might be able to see they have a pattern woven in there to card. And whereas like the this is just a sharp use, it's like smooth. So, you know, mostly guys tend to like the sharp use a smoother one, you know, because these can be a little more feminine. But there was a guy that he bought one that was in like a rose pain to fuchsia to a little violet, maybe maybe a little blue, and it was in a de card. And it was a very kind of, you know, society. Unknown Speaker 43:55 You weren't expecting him to pick it up. Anna Champagne 43:58 Yeah, but once you put it out And he had lost like, the love of his life. He lost his wife not too long before that, and he started to feel the energy. Right. And it started to heal with that pink. So he hung around the booth a lot and you know, just shared about his wife and you know, started the healing. But others, you know, like, I have a friend that commissioned some of the biggest like, meditation blankets, you know, they're huge. Um, and I do a half version that's like a meditation shawl. And this friend has a spiritual path and master and he meditates you know, many hours a day and he calls it like an energetic cocoon because that's another thing I didn't mention. It actually silk energetically insulates you too. And when you meditate in you know, certain colors. So, you know, it's, um, I was interviewed the other day and the guy was all wearing his pink shirt and stuff. So you know, it's time for the guys to be able to flame boy Right. Brandon Handley 45:00 Yeah, look, look, look, I mean, everybody can wear some colors and enjoy for sure. So, in your class, I'm just gonna you talk about like intentions, positive qualities and emotions. You've got some guided journaling, meditations, affirmations, you know, what types of answers, I'm just gonna kind of what types of meditations Could I look at in that class. Anna Champagne 45:23 They're, like I was saying there, they tend to be seven to nine minutes, I keep them fairly short, you know, growing into more of the meditations, but they're just meant to, um, interest introduce you to the colors, the qualities just kind of get in, and then they bring in some of the affirmations that you can use so it's, it's kind of like a guided one to educate you. And so that you can use it as a tool. So you know, something happens and you need to just use a certain color call us or an angel or whatever it is. You kind of have those tools and another and another, like, practical way to it doesn't have to be all about the silks although that is, you know, a big part of what I do Sure, like the Emerald Ray, it's all like think nature, you know, think the Verdun greens and, you know, it's getting big now doing earthing and you know, just Brandon Handley 46:19 tell me about everything. I have no idea. Anna Champagne 46:21 Oh, that's a great thing for people to know about, you know, I mean, think back on wood, barefoot as kids and running around in the summer, I mean, sure, you know, but beyond that, they've they've actually found that by connecting with the resonance of the earth, hmm, that it calms our nervous system and it decreases inflammation and does a lot of things like that. So I mean, they even have earthing mats and blankets and things you can have with, you know, your Brandon Handley 46:50 did see an earthing mat, right. So I was kind of curious about that, but I hadn't hadn't really linked it to I wasn't sure what the whole thing was. I hadn't gone too far into it. So the meditation They are, you know, to, to kind of impress upon the mind and give you, you know, pause the color modalities, right, tie that in with some affirmations. And I'm assuming the intentions kind of pull that all together as well. Anna Champagne 47:19 Yeah, and and, you know, like, white white rays associated with like intentions, like, you know, white is like all the colors so it's all possibilities and all potential. So think of like when we have an intention where we're impressing into that purity of just all possibilities. I love it also clarity, you know, because a lot of times we need clarity to be able to have an intention. We have to Brandon Handley 47:48 know clarity you listen, I mean, and that I think that's one of the challenges, right? You can't see two pictures at the same time, right? You can't You can't you know, you can't so you can't hold two pictures in your in your mind. Expect to clear outcome. Fair. Right. Guided journaling. I've never heard of doing guided journaling before. So, you know, what we get what we get in that? Anna Champagne 48:11 Oh, I think it's, it's just a process of getting, you know, things might start coming up and you want to just write about it just as you would journaling when I asked some questions, you know, or how do you feel about certain colors? Or how do you feel about the certain emotions, you know, because that's the other thing. Say you have fascination, then an antidote to get motivation is like glue, say, okay, so you can, you know, just so like one one way of through that healing journey, because you know, it's it's good to be able to, you know, write down things if people choose to and process how they're feeling and what's coming up or, or what they're experiencing, you know, and also to remember, not just what's coming up, like maybe some past things But also what they're experiencing because as we know, when we write it down, you know, a lot of times, especially those spiritual highs or things like that, it's like a dream, we kind of can forget about it, you know, so, so it's just guiding people with questions and things to you know, use how they want really, but like one student, she, when she got her set of silks there was Ruby was one of the colors and it actually made her angry, it agitated her, you know, because it was a kind of a red but it has more violet in it. And then in her journey of, you know, healing and growing and all that and by the end, she was wanting to find a color for her new office. And she ended up painting it this Ruby like luckily it was just one wall because that could be a lot, you know, sure in all the walls but but you know, there again, you know, when she was putting out there They're to our group and things. You know, in our Facebook group, it's like, What color? What color? Do you think I should you know, and always, I never want to tell someone, I want them to find it themselves. And it surprised me. And by the end, Ruby was so empowering for her. And she had come through so much to be able to speak our truth and heal some things and be empowered. And that's part of the Ruby quality to have this, like this laser beam of God. You know, that just those patterns that we can get stuck in, but then when we heal it, it's really empowering. So Brandon Handley 50:34 I love that. I love that. Absolutely. And then and then, like you said, two archangels are a big part of of everything that you do, but they're also part of the class that you teach. Right? Anna Champagne 50:48 Yeah. And I've been surprised because people, a lot of people don't know too much about the angels, angels, and they've really been loving hearing about them and learning and using them. So So that's been the feedback so far. Brandon Handley 51:02 I mean, I love I love that you're doing that. And just curious why you're surprised by Unknown Speaker 51:11 that there. Anna Champagne 51:14 I don't know, I guess because I just have lived with them so long that I just, you know, sometimes we take it for granted what we do know and things like that and, and a lot of the people I know, know of them, but, uh, yeah, I guess I've just been happy that they've really because I never want to push any like anything on anybody I want to, you know, it's part of the course. It's, it's, at first I wasn't sure how much it was going to be part of it. But then it's like, it's just so tied in, you know, with those divine qualities and, and the way that archangels work is you know, so you call to them for more compassion or more empowerment or motivation or killing truth. You know, abundance. They literally that's what their job is that they resonate at that specific frequency of that divine quality. And then they literally when they're asked to come because they have to be asked, they'll come and really stand right in your energy field and reinforce that pattern until you can kind of hold it for yourself. So they're really helpful. Unknown Speaker 52:30 I love it. No. Unknown Speaker 52:33 And I think that you hit on one of the things there. I know for me, Brandon Handley 52:39 I'm so used to my own language, right? I'm so used to what I speak, and I'm surrounded by people that, you know, it's not an echo chamber, but they understand me, right? It's like, Oh, well, you know, there's like, 20 of us here and all 20 of us know the same thing. So pretty sure everybody knows that. We tend to forget just how long it took us to get to this place right away. And then you know, like today, right? You're telling me about these. I'm taking notes. I'm like angels and you know, Archangel books, what would be what would be, you know? And since I'm saying that will be a book where somebody could kind of understand a little bit more about archangels and what you're talking about, they're calling them and seeing that vibration or feeling that vibration, Anna Champagne 53:22 do you have anything I'm working on the color healing book. Not withstanding, actually, this this book of the angels of love and light. My friend, Mario's Michael George wrote, or painted all the paintings and I actually got permission from him to use the images in my course and in my lectures and things nice. So on his website, which is my reuse, fine art calm, you can actually download for free you know, if you sign up for his email list, but he's very generous. You can actually download the book And I, you know, offered to my students, I tell them about it. And I think one of them said that it didn't come with the color photograph. So then you know, he has those that you can buy of these amazing artworks that he does. So that that's, that's a great book. Because there's, you know, there's different ones out there and they might have you know, different energies that they're, they're different, you know, there's different systems, there's different energy, so it's good to just kind of feel it out. Because if something doesn't feel right, with any book that you go to, there's just something that doesn't feel right. No, that that's just there's something in it that maybe isn't right for you. So Brandon Handley 54:43 that's fair. So you know, but there are books out there then that if somebody were to be interested in what you're talking about, I could definitely talk to it and you know, if they continue to be interested in the archangels and the colors and you know, they should head on over to your course. While we go ahead and mentioned your wedding go, they go to the course and where's they gonna find you to connect with you and other places? Anna Champagne 55:10 Yep. Well, one of my websites is a path of beauty.com. And that has my blog. And so we talked about color and, and you know, nature and flowers are a big part of it too, you know, because there is such an energy and there's actually in shamanism you know, the Devas and all of the plants and the flowers are really a four kind of an angel, you know? So, um, so I spent a lot of time there. And so yeah, so I take photographs, and that's just another one of my joys of what I do. And that has a lot of the Healing Sessions different things and then on a champagne soaks calm is where you can find a lot more of my soaks. And then right now, to find out about the core It's on a champagne soaks.com slash color dash healing dash course Brandon Handley 56:10 awesome thank you and they can find you on Facebook and oh yeah so you're on all the social media and a champion Anna Champagne 56:18 some more than others but you know what we all have to find our way Brandon Handley 56:22 Sure. Sure. And your site I think is pat the beauty or the is that your garden I see a lot of flower pictures of that Anna Champagne 56:31 my travels because I travel all over everywhere I go I you know, visit beautiful gardens if they're not my own, Brandon Handley 56:39 know that they're, they're beautiful. They are beautiful, beautiful flowers and beautiful pictures on there. So thanks for sharing those with us as well. Is there anything else that you think that we should hit on that maybe we didn't today um Anna Champagne 56:53 just to just to be gentle with yourself, you know, with ourselves with all you know me too, because I can Be hard of myself to, and, and just keep healing so that you can find the love and respect for others because, you know, a lot of things are coming up in the world that are very divided. And, you know, this and that and, and, you know, it's just time that we heal what's causing the discord in the separation. And you know, and the beauty of it too is we're all individual presences. So it's not ever going to be like boring or we're all going to be the same because that's impossible. You know, it's like a flowers in a garden. So, so, um, and that's what I call a path of beauty just just living from that, you know, beautiful place. Brandon Handley 57:47 Sure. You mentioned you know, before we go here, you mentioned a hand plants is kind of crazy right now. If you could take one silk color and wrap it all up which color would we what color How would we heal the planet with today? Anna Champagne 58:01 Oh boy, I could go through Well, it needs a lot of violet for that transforming, you know, transmuting those patterns but Emerald is very soothing and very healing So, and then always the pink Ray, you know is is that unconditional love? Do you want to have some yellow in there too for that wisdom? I love and of course blue. You can't do it without Archangel Michael protecting us all in our path. So for Sorry, Brandon Handley 58:36 I couldn't say one. can't just pick one. I get it. It's okay. It's okay. The world needs them. All right. So, Anna, thank you, Ana. Ana, thank you so much for hanging out with me today and sharing your story and sharing some really great insights and practical applications. I really appreciate it. Anna Champagne 58:54 Well, thank you so much. I really enjoyed spending time with you and I really appreciate it and Yeah Transcribed by https://otter.ai

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Tags: 2019 fashion trends 2019 fashion trends forecast spring summer trends fall winter trends millennial fashion trends top spring 2019 trends stripe trends 2019 2019 trends home decor 2019 trends fashion 2019 home design trends lauren lesley studio design tribe textile design textile designers surface pattern design surface pattern designers 2019 color forecast trend report 2019 gift and home furnishing market atlanta market atlanta market show   Transcript: Speaker 1: 00:01 Hey, what's up fools? Speaker 2: 00:03 This is your house. Lauren. Lesley, the design tribe podcast based out of beautiful Atlanta. This is the podcast version of my webinar series. You'll find on my website at Lauren Lesley. Lesley is spelled with an e-y. We'll be discussing all things related to the design side of your online business and interviewing creative entrepreneurs. If you'd like to join my webinar series, you will be able to follow along with awesome slides that I made super Pretty and you'll get to interact with me on live video. I'll also be live streaming to youtube and in the design tribe Facebook group. If you'd rather tune in there to sign up for the live webinars, go to laurenlesley.com/webinar-series or if you'd like to join our Facebook community, check out facebook.com/groups/designtribelaurenlesley. Thanks for connecting with the design tribe. Let's start the conversation. Speaker 1: 01:07 Okay. Hi everyone. I'm Lauren from Lauren Lesley Studio and today we have special guest, Elizabeth Silver on to talk about 2019 trends for surface pattern designers. So Elizabeth is an amazing surface pattern. Boss. She's a licensed artist and knows all about trends. She does 10 tons of trend research and has a really cool, um, newsletter for you guys that we'll talk about in just a minute. I'm Elizabeth, would you like to kind of introduce yourself and give everyone a little bit of background about who you are and how you got started as a surface pattern designer? Speaker 3: 01:43 Yeah, definitely. Thanks so much for having me, Lauren. Um, I have, I studied surface pattern design in college actually. And um, when I graduated I was living in New York City and I designed for bedding and then table linens and finally for baby apparel for baby gap. And then I wanted to leave New York City. I'd been there for about nine years. And so, uh, my husband and I moved down to Raleigh, North Carolina and I went into freelance. So I have been freelancing for about six years now. And I, um, have a lot of different types of clients, do a lot of client work, um, for party paper so you can see my work in party city, um, for like wrapping paper and gift bags, a lot of stuff in different, I'm like Tj Maxx and Marshall's and target and kind of all over the place. And I also licensed my artwork, so greeting cards and rugs and also give bags and wrapping kind of stuff, a lot of stationery. Um, and so that is kind of a Speaker 1: 02:53 me in a nutshell. Awesome. And for those of you who don't know me, I'm Lauren. I have been a senior textile designer for the past 10 years. Um, and I'm really excited because my outdoor rug designs are selling at target this season. So if you're in need of our raw, go check that out. Um, but now, uh, starting as of February 1st this year, 2019, I'm starting as an independent surface pattern designer. So I'm really excited to go to blueprint in New York and meet a bunch of other surface pattern designers. Um, but yeah, so let's get into some of the trends. So first we're going to start talking about, um, Elizabeth Atlanta Gift Market Trend PDF. So if you sign up for her newsletter, you get all sorts of really great trend insights that she puts together and kind of does all of the research ahead of time for you. Um, so to get the free pdf, you can visit her website and sign up for her email list. I'm, the link is here and I'll also link it in the description below. Um, so let me pull up whore, uh, here is her pdf. Okay. And so Elizabeth, um, if you don't mind going ahead and kind of explaining, um, what is important about America's mart gift and home show? I'm, why is that important for surface pattern designers? Speaker 3: 04:15 Definitely. Thanks so much. Um, yeah, so I went to, uh, in Atlanta, um, they have a two times a year is America's mart gift and home show. And they have like three buildings in downtown Atlanta that have showrooms of gifts, companies, home decor companies, uh, rug companies, um, apparel companies, all kinds of like giftable things stationary. And they have a permanent show rooms down there. And so they have different shows throughout the year. But the gift and home show is a time when they also, people who don't have permanent show rooms can also come down and kind of set up a temporary showroom and they're all showing their wares for people, uh, for buyers who mmm. Who buy for their stores, you know, for their gift stores or their home decor stores or their both teaks all that kind of stuff. So it's a all in one place to, it's basically like going to 150 gift show, uh, gift shops at once. So it's like a perfect, you know, opportunity to see what's going on in the gift world, in the stationary world, in the home decor worlds. So, um, I had gone since 2013 and so I wanted to check it out cause I'd been going to Sirtex every year and this year I decided to skip Sirtex and go to America's mart. Speaker 1: 05:43 I see. Okay, cool. So for those of, um, for designers who are kind of new at discovering trends or finding trends, how did you, out of, you know, you said this is like going through hundreds and hundreds of gift shops. How do you decide what's a trend Speaker 3: 05:58 versus something that's not a trend when you were just kind of overwhelmed by seeing so many days for art and gifts patterns, you figure out what is a trend actually quite overwhelming I have to say. Um, and also I would note that like this is the stuff that's like going to be in stores shortly. You know, they're selling their current line, but it was designed probably a year ago at least, you know, six months to a year ago. Um, you know, and then it had to be produced and then it's, you know, the samples are ready and they're hoping people are ordering it and it's going to go into stores. Right? So this isn't necessarily like the cutting edge things that are coming. Right. You know, out of, uh, you know, very trend for a person's brain necessarily. It is stuff that's probably a little bit older, but still it hasn't fully gone into stores and trends kind of do tend to last at least for a couple of seasons are a couple of years. Speaker 3: 07:00 And one thing I noticed is there is, you know, there was definitely a lot of stuff that we've seen before, stuff that, you know, wasn't brand new. Um, one wrap up or like roundup that I read, uh, you know, kind of hypothesize that the reason for that is that people are, you know, a little bit nervous that, um, you know, they want to see something that has sold already and it is a proven, you know, good bestseller or whatever. And so they're a little bit scared maybe to jump into new things. The wrap up that I was reading was talking about, you know, like for economy reasons, but I don't, you know, I don't know. But there is a lot of stuff that we've seen in before. So like the farmhouse trend with a lot of like home decor stuff with, you know, big script lettering, brush script lettering, um, and sort of like the, uh, like galvanized metal and wood, you know, whether it would, and sort of that, that sort of style was, you know, really prevalent, um, saw a lot of stuff that I'm sure you could recognize like flamingos and llamas and Unicorns and mermaids and all those kind of like a fantastical creatures that we've seen a lot of, you know, in, in the, in the market. Speaker 3: 08:20 Um, and the big thing that we see at all these places, all these gifts shops are a Christmas trends, right? Christmas is a big, big seller. And so, yeah, you can see, I'm kind of talking about some of the things that we've seen already. Um, Christmas Pharm House was a big thing. And, um, you know, buffalo plaid, I say that green buffalo plaid was a little bit newer, but red buffalo plaid was definitely still in there. And lots of chemicals. Um, some really, you know, things that we've seen in past Christmases, the kind of like vintage red truck with the Christmas tree is still out there. Um, but to find, to figure out what is, you know, a trend, I think that for me it's just kind of what pops out, like, um, you know, as something a little bit newer that I've, that I see, uh, you know, a couple times more than more than just like one little interesting thing. Speaker 3: 09:19 So he having, you know, studied trends for the past couple of years with my newsletter, it's like, I feel like I've seen it all. So if it's something that kind of like perks my interest and says like, oh, that's kind of weird, or like, oh, I haven't seen that. Like, even if it's just one like animal off to the side, it's like, oh yeah, you don't usually see like, you know, I don't know what animal, but that if I then see it again later in the day and then again, then I'm like, Hey, okay, that could be something. And so I try to highlight trends that are, um, that could, you know, spark something sparks some creativity basically. And that aren't necessarily like everywhere. Um, you know, I'm not going to feature unicorns because everyone has seen a million unicorns and it is still trending, but that's not really what I do. Speaker 1: 10:10 Right. I think that as a designer, once you sort of get into that process of researching trends, it's almost sort of intuitive. Like something that does, like you said, kind of perk your interest or you are kind of responding to innately then you know, and especially if you start to see it over and over again, you know, they say that in order to buy something you have to see it seven times. And so I think that as, as designers it's like, well, you know, we are sort of picking up on an evolution of thing is too, like one design trend could naturally evolve into something else or it could marry with another trend. Um, I don't know. Like I remember just in rugs, um, the trellis and lattice patterns were so big for a long sort of the two color. And now they're sort of starting to be a little bit dated, but it's like, okay, how, you know, how can we evolve that trend? How can we maybe make it three collar or multicolor or, um, maybe make it a little bit more global, you know, there's different things you can do to a trend once it starting to kind of get some age on it, I guess, um, to make it evolve and grow the I agree. Okay. Okay. So, Speaker 3: 11:27 so this first page, um, just for fun was kind of things that I couldn't make a full like trend board out of, but I just kind of want to call it out because again, I kind of pricking my eye and I thought they were sort of interesting. So, um, last year for 2018, um, I did a trend guide of a roundup of SIRTEX and a national stationery show and one of my trends was called anatomy class and it was sort of about a female anatomy, uh, you know, like naked ladies boobs. Like, literally, there were cards out there with like, you know, like the whole, like female anatomy, like, like a real, like ovaries and stuff like that. So, um, so that is, you know, has been trending. The female form has definitely been trending, but, uh, this little, um, this first image with the like really, really happy jumping around naked ladies just made me smile. Speaker 3: 12:22 And so I just wanted to kind of call it out because it's sort of, you know, it reminded me that that trend is still going and they just seem like they're loving life so much that I was happy about it. Then the second one is I had also recently in my newsletter sent out a, a trend about floral crowns on animals being so huge in illustration and greeting cards and things like that. And one interesting thing that I saw, um, it was a green box, uh, which also like it's kind of owns oopsy daisy and they do wall art, right? And so one of their artists, actually a couple of their artists, um, had, you know, floral crowns was still big with the animals, but one sort of like evolution of that, again as talking about how to make it something newer and different and kind of bring it forward was I'm having sort of dessert and food items as crowns on animals. Speaker 3: 13:15 So I thought that was interesting. Take. And then the last thing that I showed there, it and that I saw a couple call outs of at the gift show, but couldn't really find enough reference to say it was a trend was the sort of the idea of pills and pharmaceuticals as like a little bit of a joke or just like something, something kind of interesting. So that card says hope they give you the good drugs and get well card by Lionheart prints. Oh, cute. Cool. Okay. So my first trend that I, um, wanted to call out as called plant ponds. And um, as I say here, uh, food ponds have been around for a while. We've seen, you know, Tacos and Sushi and pizza and give me a pizza, my heart and that kind of thing. Um, but I saw a big, uh, you know, a big showing of plant ponds because house plants have been a really big trend. Speaker 3: 14:13 Um, and now that's sort of evolving. So now we're getting sort of the two things together. The food ponds or the ponds I should say. And the house plants are coming together and these planters and different products have all these kind of, you can see, oh yeah. And here to make fronds and just like all these kind of like silly little ponds on plant life. So that was my first, um, call out. I left Penn. So this is making me really happy, you know. All right. My second one is called masters of Maine and this was a trend that actually I think it started probably in the home decor worlds. Um, and maybe with your rug experience, you've kind of been seeing it around, but I sort of pay more attention to gift and stationary because that's sort of my, um, you know, lane for what I designed. Speaker 3: 15:06 So I hadn't really noticed it necessarily, um, until it sort of started seeping into what I do. Um, but you know, I guess are ready in home decor is seeing these kind of, um, Ming vases and these, uh, uh, Chanel Zari vases with this, you know, like traditional Chinese look to them. The blue and white, um, has been, you know, those vases have been, you know, a decorative item that you can get for your home for a while. And now sort of it's becoming a surface pattern thing where you could see their feature featured is like, you know, uh, a tray that has those vases and, you know, Napkins and prints were those vases are being drawn out and illustrated and use for, you know, for artwork. And, um, I also liked the kind of the take on it where it's like sculptural pumpkin's up in the top right. Um, where yeah, they use the kind of imagery, but they put it on a pumpkin. And so that's just kind of, you know, something a little bit different. So I thought that was, I noticed a lot of that around, um, markets. Speaker 3: 16:15 Cool. Yeah, I've definitely seen this in home decor and um, there have been trans in rag with a kind of related to this more bent, a little bit more like Shibori or teak or things like that. The indigo thing is definitely been around and yeah. Shit. Yeah, you're right. I agree. And then the last one is sort of, I think it's, I think it's going to kind of emerge. I sort of hedge my bets when I talk about it and uh, in the uh, intro, but it's been sort of a graphic design trend for a little bit. Um, Paper Cup progress is what I'm calling this. And so it's sort of these paper cut paper sculpture, um, flowers which are really beautiful. And you can buy something like this on Etsy. The very center image is like an Etsy image that you can buy this kind of decor for your wedding or your party or whatever. Speaker 3: 17:10 Um, and the top, uh, center. And then the top left are both sort of the graphic design, um, versions of it where, you know, it's a, um, poster for one of the gifts companies and the center one was an invitation and that's where the, that kind of imagery was used. But then going around the show, I was seeing a lot of the home decor companies had these sculptural wall are that looks like Paper Cup florals, you know, they were made out of ceramic or resin or whatever, but they kind of looked this 3d paper cut look and then kind of looking it, I saw a couple other references, a wallpaper like that looks like a foe. Um, the bottom left is like a wallpaper that looks like cut paper. And, um, and I, I'm seeing it a lot per like decoration, um, decoration items. So I think that if there's a way, I'm not sure because I mean, I'm an illustrator, I'm not, you know, uh, paper sculptures. But you know, if there's a way to sort of give that cool flat flat turning 3d look to some of your flowers in illustration or whatever, it could be a really cool technique. Speaker 1: 18:26 Yeah, the dimension there is really interesting. I haven't seen that. Speaker 3: 18:30 That's cool. So those were my three big trends that I took away. Now I wouldn't necessarily say those were the biggest trends of market because like I said, some of the biggest trends, the farm house look and you know, um, I, I still saw a lot of lamas and that kind of thing. Um, those were, you know, bigger trends, but those are ones that we've seen before. So what my trend book kind of highlights is that, you know, hopefully something that's a little bit new and kind of sparks your creativity and you know, makes you ready to design some new stuff for your clients and for your portfolio. Speaker 1: 19:05 Did you see any spots? Yup. Yup. Definitely. Still off Speaker 3: 19:12 Kenny and not quite as many. I think that one might be fading, but, okay. Speaker 1: 19:16 Well, I don't know. Hopefully, if that's my opinion, it's, I'm going to Costa Rica on Saturday for my honeymoon. So I'm going to get in to see some real slots. Awesome poster. He gives the best. You've never been. So I'm excited. So fun. Okay, so next we're going to get into the trend of the month, um, which if you're a part of Elizabeth's newsletter, then you're going to get this every month from her. So we are in March and she recently released a new trend called sunshine day. So Elizabeth, can you explain this trend and kind of the impact that that has also on surface pattern designers? Speaker 3: 19:52 Yeah, definitely. So, well, we're all ready for spring, right? I mean this is, it's still, yeah, today here and rainy in Raleigh, North Carolina, but we're ready for spring and I had been seeing a lot of sunshine lately. I've, uh, in on gift products. So you can see from this board, there's a whole array of like rugs, reading cards, mugs, wall are all kinds of things here. And there are all kinds of sporting that, um, bright sunshine. Uh, look with the rays coming out of it. A lot of wordplay and puns. I'm not on here, but I on this board, but there was one that I saw the girls just want to have sun, which I love. And um, I think it also goes back to uh, we'll be talking, you can see there's some, you know, orange and pink and like it's got that living coral vibe and the top, but also mustard yellow is so huge. So it's kind of perfect. Um, that this, this ties right into that too. Speaker 4: 20:51 Cool. Speaker 1: 20:53 All right. So, um, also, and those of us newsletter, she mentioned that apartment therapy has just released a pattern of the year, which they've never done before. So I was really intrigued by this and had to look at APP. So I'm going to actually pull up there web Speaker 4: 21:11 Paige. Speaker 1: 21:13 Um, we can start on that for just a minute. Um, because I was really intrigued by this and good job for Elizabeth for finding it. Speaker 3: 21:23 Cool. It's, I'm happy because, you know, we've, of course we've been hearing color of the year for a long time, but as they explained in this article, they were just, you know, they're like, all right, enough with his color of the year, we're ready for the year. And I'm like, as a surface pattern, I'm totally for it. So, um, they kind of described, I mean definitely a link to the article, you know, hopefully, but check it out because they talk about their process of kind of narrowing it down and some of the other contenders, which were, uh, I think did, they said blush botanicals was a big one that they thought about. Um, and trying to remember what other things, but basically the pattern that they named was, uh, animals, but not the animal prints that we think of in a traditional way, but the full animals. So leopards, zebras and a Cheetah's kind of, you know, walking around. Speaker 3: 22:15 And I've definitely, I agree with this. I have seen this for the past year or two at featured, a couple of these, um, in my newsletter. In fact. Uh, so I, I definitely agree that this is, this is up and coming. I've seen it as wallpaper, it looks to me and saying, and um, when I was at America's mart, I didn't necessarily see that many cats kind of like walking around necessarily, but there were still a lot of like animal prints more than I was really expecting for the gift world. So I was kind of seeing, um, you know, a part of that, a version of that. Speaker 1: 22:52 Yeah. I'm really loving this and I've been seeing a lot of, um, like big cats as well. Like whether it's like tigers or leopards or 100%. Yeah, I've seen this a lot. So it's really interesting that apartment therapy called this out, especially because they have such a big focus on home decor. Um, I dunno, like coming from a rug that, and obviously we, you probably wouldn't put this on her drug. Um, I dunno, you know, Speaker 3: 23:17 crazy. It is crazy, but it's also not, you know, I don't know how scalable it would take a minute for like, you know, everything takes a while to kind of seep into like what people are going to put. Like a rug is a big investment. Right. Speaker 1: 23:31 Right. Could probably pull it off. But other than that, Speaker 3: 23:35 yeah. But it's not going to be, you know, definitely your trellises or you're kind of more safe option, but right. Some of those more trend forward places might start featuring this and you know, as it, if it has legs, we'll have to find out, you know, we won't know until next year or the year after that if it's still kind of around. But it, I could see it seeping into, you know, some rug fashion. Speaker 1: 23:57 Hmm. Okay. So yeah. Apartment therapy saying, but it's a big maximalist but we're seeing a shift away from the stark minimalism, which, I mean, that kind of resonates with me as well because I have a little bit of a hoarder too. I think every artist is with all their supplies and whatnot. Um, but yeah, I love maximalism. I love kind of that Boho global feeling. So, um, but yeah, they're saying that, you know, even in pattern and I'm like surface design that it is a bit maximalist and [inaudible]. MMM. I think also the idea of kind of layering patterns together, coordinating patterns together in the home is going to kind of be a big trend coming forward to definitely. MMM. Yeah. So here is this, um, other big cat on like the bathroom wallpaper. It was really cool. Um, and I'm sure we'll see it in like throw pillows, like that'll be kind of an easy way for people to incorporate this trend. Oh yeah, definitely. Um, but yeah, they kind of just talk about like, you know, why a pattern of the year, like you said, we've always heard about the color of the year. Um, and I will link this article in the description below so you guys can check it out on your own. But Speaker 3: 25:11 yeah. And it has some good, uh, when you read it as some like suggestions of kind of like I said, what they were there other contenders were. So those are other kinds of big things that are happening. Um, so yeah, little hint as to what's going on in the home decor world and also, you know, it translates to gift and stationary and, and kind of everywhere. Speaker 1: 25:33 Yeah, definitely makes sense. Then gift in stationary for sure. Um, but I love seeing it. I love seeing home decor, get more creative like this too. So it's fun. Definitely. All right. Um, okay, so, um, I'm going to touch a little bit on living coral because it is the pillar of the year and we just talked about the pattern of the year from environment therapy. So I couldn't leave out living coral and I do have a nother youtube video, the owl, um, I'll put the slide up for you guys. Um, so this is also in my youtube channel if you want to watch the full video, but I'm just going to give like a really quick summary over living coral. MMM. So living coral kind of embodies our need for a playful expression. I see it as a very happy color. Um, it's very bright and fun. Speaker 1: 26:24 Um, and representing the fusion of modern life. Pantone and coral is a nurturing color that appears in our natural surroundings. So when I first heard this, I thought, what natural, like, you know, when I think of nature, I think of Greens and kind of Browns, but maybe that's just because of where I live, but then when I started to think about it, yeah. Was kind of like, oh yeah, like I guess coral really does exist in the sea, but I'm not in the seat all the time, or it's in a sunset and things like that. So, um, Elizabeth, do you agree with this? Who would you think of coral as being like a natural color? Speaker 3: 26:57 Uh, yeah, I think I'm on the same page as you. Yeah. I wouldn't necessarily think that it's, to me, it's sort of like that pop of color, you know, w um, a little bit different than what I, what I normally see in my actual surroundings, but I guess depending on, yeah. You know, sort of in the Caribbean or wherever, they have a lot brighter colors, um, around them. So it sort of depends, I guess. Speaker 1: 27:22 Yeah. I mean, I definitely see it, like you said, Caribbean. I see it as a happy, like beachy color and it, I, it even reminds me of weddings, like I feel like bridesmaids dresses and things like that, but I just don't usually associate this well or with nature. But again, yeah, I mean it could be, um, a flower, you know, color for flowers, things like that. But I just generally, I think of like more neutral stones and, Speaker 3: 27:45 um, I think we just need to leave the east coast and moved to Hawaii and then we would be living the living coral lifestyle that we all dream for. Speaker 1: 27:57 Ah, I like that idea. Let's do it. But yeah, this is kind of how I traditionally see coral being used. Um, just like in, you know, kind of beachy weddings or as prom dresses, things like that. But, um, when I started to do, so I'm trying to research, I did see how living coral was starting to influence home decor, which was really cool to see. So again, this is kind of how I traditionally imagined coral being used in the home, if at all. Um, and again, I am on the east coast, so I kind of saw it as, uh, you know, in southern coastal homes, kind of a little bit of a preppy vibe. But, um, as I was doing my trend research, I was beginning to see it being used in these like fresh, modern ways that still looks like very sunny in tearful, but kind of gives a thorough back with a mid century modern looks or just kind of like the modern art on, which I thought was really fun and new. Speaker 1: 28:49 It felt very fresh. Ooh. And then also seeing it as kind of this smart and fluid evolution from millennial pink, which has been so big over the last, you know, two to three years. Um, it makes it a very commercial choice as well, which we don't always see pantone making a commercial choice, but you can see it even in, you know, this rug or a pillow or dishes. Um, it's just, it seems like it's a very kind of easy color to incorporate with colors that people and consumers have already been buying over the last couple of years. Definitely. Um, it also looks great and an outdoor patio space. If you're, you know, not this bold inside, then your patio is a perfect place to kind of bring some personality and some pop in it. It's, I'm going really well Speaker 4: 29:42 with soft textiles. I like drapery as well. That gives your indoors a little bit of a pop if you're, um, feeling a little bit bold and want that bright coral color inside, uh, in the navy and indigo blues can a pair really well with the coral as do teals. Okay. Speaker 1: 29:59 And also I was noticing some exterior uses, um, bringing some vibrancy and some personality to the outside of that home. And again, it kind of depends on, I think where you live, where this would be suitable. But, um, even if you just painted your door a fun pop color. Yeah, that can be great. Yeah, that can be really fun. Okay, so to watch the full video, I'm going to leave or I'm linking this other video here so you can just click on that to watch the full video of living coral. Okay. So next I wanted to let you guys know about my trend guide for 2019 so I did a ton of trend research and I'll let you know kind of what I was finding in terms of colors and then we'll touch on a few other things. So this is my ultimate 2019 trend guide that I'm giving away for free. So you can download the pdf and I will link that in the description below, so be sure to check that out. Okay. So some of the color trends I've been finding for 2019 include this blush and forest green combination. And like I mentioned earlier, millennial pink has kind of been out and about for quite a while now, but we're kind of seeing these muted tones coming into the blushes and seeing it kind of contrasts really nicely with [inaudible] this, sorry. Um, is really beautiful. So that's in one color combinations. Speaker 3: 31:30 Sorry, I love this combination. This is, this is kind of, yeah, like a new look. Um, that I think is really pretty. I think, um, what I was seeing a lot of last year as the stationary show was um, sort of millennial pink and like cobalt and this is just kind of pushing it a little bit farther towards the, you know, obviously towards the green and then the pink is a little bit deeper and it's kind of again, like a nice evolution but really a unexpected. Speaker 1: 31:59 Right. And um, what was it two years ago that pantone is called the green? Um, it wasn't this crane but it was a green. So I think it kind of got everyone thinking about Greens a little bit more seriously because we didn't see, especially in home decor, we didn't see a lot of Greens. But also the house plant trend I think has kind of influenced us to think about yeah. Speaker 3: 32:18 And tropical, all that tropical patterning that we've been seeing for years. Speaker 1: 32:23 Yeah. So shades of green I think are definitely going to be here for a little while. Speaker 1: 32:29 Okay. So the next slide is hello yellow. So I'm a, I'm a lover of yellow anyway, but I was really excited to kind of see some different of yellow coming out, whether in clothing they, we have sort of some muted like butters and mustard colors, but also even in these hair trends you're seeing this like really, really bright fluorescent yellow almost, which was really fun. Yeah. So iridescent Schein is the next color trends. So this isn't exactly one color, but you're kind of this mother of Pearl. Look, we're seeing everywhere whether it's in these hair trends or um, and clothing or indifferent like kind of home decor accents. Um, Speaker 3: 33:14 it's really a hundred percent. And in the gifts in the gift market and stationary market, hologram foil is so huge like that. A couple of years ago that was like the new thing and it's still holding on like the metallics of like gold and silver and copper are still big, but the Hologram foil and that you a destined look is, is big in those markets. Speaker 1: 33:34 Oh, so fun. I love it. I feel like I've even seen it and I'm a silverware. Speaker 3: 33:40 Oh yeah, definitely. Yeah. I had a trend like this a couple of like a last year called oil slick and it was sort of the like rainbow effect on and the same thing. I had some silverware featured as well. Those sort of like a deeper version of this. But I'm similar. Speaker 1: 33:54 Yeah. Cool. I'm really pretty. Okay. So the next color trend is lavender loves. So again, I think that millennial pink has been so big for the last two to three years and this is sort of another evolution of the millennial pink. It's kind of the softer lavender's, um, and kind of soft purples. And again, last year was ultra violet for the 2018 color of the year. Now, this isn't ultra violet, but I do think it is a spin off of that to get people thinking again about purples. What purples are people excited about? What do they want to see on their clothes or their shoes or in home decor or in you know, stationery and gift. Um, so I think that these colors are a little bit softer and they're kind of easier to use. So here is millennial pink that we have been talking about that a lot and I don't think it's going anywhere quite yet. Again, we are kind of seeing these evolutions and kind of be spinoffs of millennial pink, but I think these colors also kind of playback and work well with millennial pink and I don't really think it's going away yet. Like I think that pink is still big, big, big. Yup. Speaker 3: 35:06 Agreed. And like now a hot pink is coming into, into play. I think after like award season, right. There was so many dresses out there. I don't really follow fashion too much and you have a lot of like fashion inspiration and home decor inspiration. Whereas my trend boards tend to be really like gift and stationary and a little bit of home decor. So that's kind of like my, my perspective on it. But I, um, from award season, I know that all the like dresses where this like hot pink Fuchsia. So that's, you know, another thing kind of mix in there. Speaker 1: 35:38 Cool. Yeah, I love seeing all the different shades of pink and I love the bright colors too. This is a little bit more soft and muted, but um, yeah, I think especially in home decor, we were seeing sort of the blushes come through a lot. But I'm hot pink. I love, so that's exciting. Okay. So pastel perfection. So I feel like pastels have been out for a few years. It's not like the most new thing, but I do think that some of these color combinations in the pastels are a little bit new and different. Um, so I was really loving just the softness of this and love seeing it. Also on kind of more winter items like this winter coat for example, or more long sleeve thinking. The pastels. Traditionally we, I guess we think of pastels as being associated with Easter time or spring. But yeah, seeing these pastels being applied and like totally different ways as exciting. Speaker 1: 36:37 So peach perfect is the next color trend. And I think that this is sort of related back to live in coral. It is a lot softer and more pastel. Again, I'm going to say it again, but I think it is related kind of to another evolution of the millennial pink seeing kind of what plays with that or how it could shift and change a little bit. But I think these soft peachy colors are just on point and I really love it. They play nicely with a lot of other colors. Okay. So the pink, green and gold is just another sort of color combination I was seeing over and over again. Yeah. Speaker 1: 37:18 And the, I called this royal blue sign because I felt like the cobalt blues, the Royal Blues, we're mixing really nicely and having that amazing contrast with these really bright sunshine colors, these yellow colors. And I feel like, yeah, we're seeing it in all different ways, whether it's in fashion or in an artwork or um, in these bottles or stoneware, whatever's at the bottom left. I can't remember exactly what that, what product that was. But yeah, I feel like we were just seeing it all over. It looks gorgeous. Yeah. Okay. And soft sage. I feel like what we were just talking about earlier with all the Greens, the house plant trends, um, the tropical trend and greenery being the 2017 pantone color of the year, it's just really gotten people thinking about Greens in a different way and really paying attention to Greens more. Um, so I was noticing this kind of soft sage trend come up all over the place, whether it's in house, how paints or sofas and home decor or fashion. Speaker 1: 38:25 Um, and just again with these, um, succulents, they kind of have that exact same color. So I agree. I have heard that stages is trending as well. And I feel like I haven't seen it as much in my work, but it's probably just a matter of time cause it's probably starting in fashion and home decor and that it's going to kind of filter in. Gotcha. Yeah, I think it feels really fresh. So I love it. But yeah. Okay. And so the next one is called spice turmeric earth. And I think this is just sort of a new, a new neutral if you will. I think that gray is starting to finally kind of make its way out and we're turning towards these really hot neutrals. Um, I don't really see the chocolates coming back in yet, but I think that's kind of where we're headed. But I think first it's going to be more of these kind of like spicy colors, um, that you would see in your kitchen. Um, but it is coming into fashion. I think first most of these images are fashion images. We kind of tried to play with this in home decor. I don't think they were quite ready yet because everyone's at this point bought a gray sofa. So it's not going to matter. Speaker 1: 39:39 But I do think this is where it's heading and you know, it's a great color for like leather furniture, things like that. So I think we are going to see it coming up more and more over the next few years. Okay. So you got all of my color trends, but I wanted to go over some of the other trends that I've included in my free trend guide. So I've included illustration trends that are not going to share with you. You'll have to go download the pdf in the description below to get these trends. But I am also included a section on print and pattern trends and surface design trends and textile design trends. So definitely go check that out. Yeah, a lot of great stuff in there. Thank you. So this is my website. If you want to get my free trend guide 'em you can either go into the description or you can go to my website@lauraandleslie.com slash friend. Speaker 1: 40:35 Um, and you can download it there. Definitely share a comment or share any ideas. If you see some trends coming up in 2019 that we didn't mention, let us know in the comments below. We would really love to hear from you. If you have any questions, just let us know. Yeah, definitely. All right, so your assignment for today is to go ahead and research trends in your niche, so whether you are more in the gift and stationary like Elizabeth or if you're in home decor or fashion, whatever it is, start researching some of the trends in your niche and create a one page trend board for a new trend that you discovered because there's no way that we can possibly see every single trend that's coming out this year. These are just ones that we've noticed and we've shared with you. So create a one page trend board and upload it to the design tribe Facebook group and share it with other designers. Speaker 1: 41:32 That way we can all mutually benefit from each other's research and save time. So to join the Facebook group, go to the design tribe, Lauren Lesley, you can see the link below on this slide and you'll have to answer a few questions and just make sure that you are actually a designer, um, and is a private group, but we would love to have you, so please go over there and join. Um, and if you liked this video, uh, to get notified, please hit the little bell, subscribe to my channel, give this video a thumbs up. We'd really appreciate it. And in the future if you want to listen in the car as you're driving or whatnot, um, we do have a podcast version and I'm putting all the audio on the podcast of these conversations. So go ahead and subscribe to the design tribe podcast. You can listen on iTunes and Spotify. Um, I'm at Lauren Lesley studio on Instagram and Elizabeth, do you want to give your Instagram? Speaker 3: 42:33 Yeah, definitely. I'm at east silver design and um, yeah, you can subscribe to my newsletter@elizabethsilver.com uh, slash fresh. Um, Yup, there we go. East silver design and Elizabethsillver.com/brush um, has, uh, where you can subscribe and the 15th of every month a new trend board and all kinds of resources for designers, for illustrators and you know, creative freelancers basically. So would love to have you. Speaker 1: 43:04 All right. Well Elizabeth, thank you so much for coming on and really enjoy talking to you about all the trends we're seeing in 2019 thank you so much. Lauren. Speaker 2: 43:15 Thank you so much for listening to the design tribe podcast. I hope you enjoyed the conversation today. Here comes the part where I need to ask you for a favor, help a sister out. Next time you're in iTunes, Speaker 3: 43:29 please, please leave a rating and a review. Speaker 1: 43:33 Please. Speaker 3: 43:34 It only takes a few seconds and it would quite literally you make my day for real. It helps us podcast get found so that other awesome people like you can join the dialogue and connect with each other. 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Welcome to Between Two Jobs. Every week we talk to people who have your dream job and find out how they got it. This episode features: Alex Adams from Eat, Drink, PlayCarlos Heng from MakMakKaren Davis from ShiboriLibby Gardner from The Platter ProjectMatt Davidson from UnboundVicky Brown from The Urban BeehiveBetween Two Jobs comes out every week on Sunday morning.If you have a job that you'd like to know more about, or if you have a dream job and want to talk about it, reach out to hello@betweentwojobs.comFollow us on instagram @betweentwojobsCheck out the website https://www.betweentwojobs.com/

BONUS EPISODE! Welcome to a brand new segment on Craft Hangout called Erin Investigates where investigative journalist, Erin Cassin, will be digging deep to find the answers to all of our burning craft questions. In this episode, she researches and finds out the answer to Leeloo's big question: What's the difference between SHIBORI and TIE DYE?!? The answer may surprise you, and we think you'll have fun listening to her convo with Isa Rodgrigues, Co-Executive Director at the Textile Arts Center, as well as the gang's reaction along the way. In other news, we hear an update on Craft Hangout fan favorite, Chris RWK and The Blackbook Diaries movie he was just featured in by Silvertuna Studios. Here are some fun links to check out: Textile Arts Center: http://www.textileartscenter.com Silvertuna Studios: https://silvertunastudios.com/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Our snazzy theme song is by Scott Making Cents: https://m.soundcloud.com/scottmakingcents  ------------------------------------------------ Oh! And don’t forget to join our tribe! www.crafthangout.com www.instagram.com/crafthangout https://www.facebook.com/crafthangout

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On this episode, we interview Fredun Medhora and Ritika Jhunjhunwala who run Iteeha, a city-based textile design firm that conducts workshops to promote folk art forms from across the country. You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcast App on Android: https://goo.gl/tGYdU1 or iOS: https://goo.gl/sZSTU5 You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/

Welcome to Episode 48:  How You Can Learn the Holistic Way Brainy Thing:   22:20      Behind the Redwood Curtain:  29:50 What We Learned From Our Knitting Margaret learns a lot about her knitting by not knitting.   Catherine confronts some of the challenges of long term knitting projects, this time the Meadow Lark  Shibori Jacket http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/meadowlark-shibori-jacket by Gina Wilde out of Alchemy yarns.   Brainy Thing:  Holistic Knitting When is learning like a piece of knitting  Whhen it’s holistic and interconnected.  Margaret shares the theories of Shawn Whitely from his now out-of-print book Memletics.   Behind the Redwood Curtain: Sumeg Village in Patrick’s Point State is a recreated Yurok village that is not a museum but a living location for local native events.   http://redwoods.info/showrecord.asp?id=487   Knitting Tip: Danica53  from our Ravelry group shares a new loose bind off:   Lori’s twisty bind off  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWS77BKk5NQ   Facebook:  Also, join our Facebook Group  https://www.facebook.com/Teachingyourbraintoknitpodcast/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel Ravelry Group  http://www.ravelry.com/groups/teaching-your-brain-to-knit website https://teachingyourbraintoknit.com/ for show notes, photos of our knitting and crochet projects, Behind the Redwood Curtain places and things and anything else we decide to post.   Coming up in Teaching Your Brain to Knit we examine how to learn about your knitting by not knitting, the dangers of multi year projects, how learning might be like knitting and crochet fabric, how sumeg village helps Yurok Indians walk in two worlds and another solution for loose bind-offs.

If you have some Lil Red, Coral Queen of the Sea, and are waiting for Farm Fun, then today is your lucky day! I am so excited to talk to Moda Fabric Designer Stacy lest Hsu to find out more about how she got into fabric designing and have her tell us about the adorable doll panels that come with her lines. http://stacyiesthsu.tumblr.com/ --------------- Debbie Maddy has taken the ancient art of Shibori, a traditional Japanese dyeing technique, and turned it into a beautiful fabric line for Moda. I can't wait to learn more about how she was inspired by this and she has some great tips for making quilts that look complicated! http://blog.calicocarriage.com/ ------------------ Each month this year Mary Abreu of Confessions of a craft addict is joining me so we can talk about in depth on topics we quilters want to know about! This month we are going to go behind the scenes as Mary tells us what it's like to get ready for the Row by Row Experience in the shop where she works. You can meet Mary by visiting Intown Quilters in Decatur Georgia! https://www.instagram.com/thatcraftaddict/ -------------------- From being an architect to becoming a fabulous Quilt Artist, Shruti Dandekar has had an amazing journey. We are going to talk about quilting in India, where she lives and her portrait quilts. She also has a few fabulous tips for us! https://shrutidandekar.com/ ------------------------ visit American Patchwork & Quilting at http://allpeoplequilt.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/apqmagazine Visit host Pat Sloan at http://www.patsloan.com

It's the accessories that truly turn a house into a home. And in this episode of the Podcast our interior stylist and founder Lauren Keenan chats to Tara Bennett, the designer and powerhouse behind up-and-coming homewares brand Provider.The Provider range includes handcrafted cushions and candles as well as a carefully curated selection of homewares from around the globe and has been featured in Real Living, Homes+ and The Daily Telegraph.Lauren and Tara talk about their shared design philosophy that you don't have to spend a fortune to have a beautiful home. Tara also explains her obsession with Japanese and Scandinavian (scani) design and how these cultures and her travel to Asia influences her homewares collections. The Find it. Style it. Podcast is not complete without talking instagram and socials. Tara shared some of her favourite inspiring instagrammers. Make sure you check out @storymfg @kitone_kyoto and @kinfolk.If you need personal advice on interior design trends and how to make them work in your home then email Lauren now to get started - lauren@laurenkeenan.com.au If you think there's a brand Lauren should be interviewing for the podcast get in touch too!​

Brainy part starts at 17:50 and Behind the Redwood Curtain begins at 32:20. Margaret talks about her adaptation of the Sweet November crocheted scarf and Catherine gives updates on her Meadowlark Shibori jacket and Sock Yarn Blanket. Margaret talks about the once popular Right- and Left-brain theory and how current brain scientists see those terms as metaphors.  She mentions that knitters sometimes identify as Right- or Left-brained. Catherine talks about Blue Ox Millworks in Eureka, CA which uses old fashioned methods to make replicas of pieces for residents and business.  It has expanded to have a school and veterans' services. Catherine also suggests knitters have a number of cast-ons and bind-offs to choose from when they knit.

Brainy stuff starts at 22:40 and Behind the Redwood Curtain starts at 32:05. Margaret shares what's she's learned from the Gallatin Scarf and the Silk Curved Scarf while Catherine talks about new (Meadowlark Shibori Jacket) and old (Sock Yarn Blanket) projects. Margaret discusses the concept of metacognition and how it helps make knitting projects more successful.  She also talks about the First Street Gallery in Eureka and Catherine offers a knitting tip about soaking your project for 20 minutes before blocking. 

Folk art and fine art meet this week in a facinating interview with weaver and textile designer Catharine Ellis, creator of the woven shibori technique. If you love beautiful fabrics, natural dyes, or just like learning about something new, don't miss this episode! Outro music: "Little Wooden Church," by The Trumpeteers.

Recorded at the Maiwa School of Textiles Lecture series 2007.

WeaveCast is one year old! Help us celebrate. We’ll discuss woven shibori with Catharine Ellis, review her book, Woven Shibori, describe a swatch of the day, share listener comments, then end things up with a review of how WeaveCast has grown … Continue reading →