Isabella

Devon, UK: textile artist; tutor; natural dyes; resist dyeing; sustainability; researching history of orchil and lichen trade; occasional non-textile-tweets

[Isabella @Orchella49]

Bells, wool, ropes and a phobia https://t.co/uxPEFn837s

[Isabella @Orchella49]

Shibori, silk, natural dyes. Teaching update, 2022 https://t.co/aQqBNGjbQs

[Journal for Weavers, Spinners & Dyers @journalwsd]

For todays #ThrowbackThursday we're looking at an article from Journal 264, Winter 2017.
Isabella Whitworth shares her naturally dyed wax resist scarves, with a wide range of colours made possible using mordant pastes.

[Isabella @Orchella49]

Short film shows the process of machine lace-making https://t.co/YECrAMBwfv

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Stockholm and Leyden Papyri Project https://t.co/JWzb7eW66y

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@NPohlutopia Already registered, thank you!

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@JamesRavilious @beaford A beautifully knitted waistcoat too!

[James Ravilious @JamesRavilious]

Edward Cowle in his garden, Winkleigh, June 1981. Photograph by my Dad, digitally scanned from a Beaford Archive negative. ©Beaford Arts @beaford #Devon #photography https://t.co/ZVqCr5AbGl

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@JacobtheCollie Performance art

[Dennis Severs' House @DennisSeversHse]

Shirt belonging to Dennis Severs. Levi Strauss (1829–1902) was an immigrant from Bavaria who arrived in California in 1850 during the Gold Rush. Hearing of the miners' need for robust work trousers, he employed a tailor to make them out of tent canvas.

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@JacobtheCollie Could you send him up here please? We need more ringers

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RHS Rosemoor: Course in Natural Dyes https://t.co/nM0exRIFbp

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@Walker55Ashley Congratulations to tutors and students.

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.@waymarksblog please would you contact me via a DM? You will see I have just followed you. It’s about your recent DM to a mutual friend who is no longer on Twitter and can’t respond. Thanks.

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@KDDandco Look like she is wearing an indigo-dyed silk in the portrait

[KDD (Kate Davies Designs) 🧶📚 @KDDandco]

Today’s bluestocking is Mercy Otis Warren: the brilliant essayist, poet and historian whose political arguments were influential in the US constitutional enshrining of a bill of rights

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@NPohlutopia @KDDandco Sometimes I really wish I could knit. Lovely job.

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@journalwsd Thank you for the RT, @journalwsd

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I’ll be talking about this tomorrow at the Online Natural Dye Symposium. Great to be sharing the day with @Walker55Ashley Luisa Uribe and Aviva Leigh

[Journal for Weavers, Spinners & Dyers @journalwsd]

#ThrowbackThursday to Journal 265, spring 2018.
@orchella49 shared her discoveries from a eighteenth and nineteenth century textile archive which revealed some samples of commercially dyed threads, using Murex Purple... the colour used to dye the robes of Roman Emperors.

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The Loom Shed Online Natural Dye Symposium https://t.co/1jame3MbyS