Moving on...

Recent sudden death of close friend of mine, Alyona, who wasn't even 40 got me thinking about how much time I waste got suck into routine while life is passing by. This lost has shaken me and, surprisingly, woken my creativity up. What a strange effect... Sooo... I got my hands full in developing the next collection.

I'm still polishing the concept, but the working title is "Time wanderer" or may be "Time nomad". This is going to be women's outwear collection were I will be further exploring combination of nuno-felting and shibori. Main colours will be brown, beige, ochre but there will fair bit of orange as I consider shades of orange to be my signature ones.

I have done some textile samples over weekend defining textures and colours of the collection. There just some of them I consider applying and gathered images I've drown my inspiration from.

Mood Board



Textile Sample 1



Textile Sample 2



(photo of the wall of the building near Eiffel Tower, Paris I took when was there last year)

Textile Sample 3-4

Textile experiments_Shibori & Felt_2

Done some more bits and pieces trying to find the right direction I would like my "soft jewelry" collection to develop. Not happy yet, but see some promising ideas coming out of it ;))) But I guess will have to finalise them after I come back from my trip. Being kind of busy much recently )))










xoxo SheverDUSHKA

Textile experiments_Shibori & Felt

G'day, everyone!

Recently I've been doing some more experimenting with combination of nuno-felting & shibori.

Vest I made for the master-class I was offered to conduct soon (fingers crossed)



Developing mini-collection of accessories/jewelry
Halloween Story_Onion Necklace




Not sure wat to do with this piec yet... May be turn it into pillow cover )))


Organza(left sample) and dyed in indigo piece of cotton voile (right sample) are felted and then "shibored" applying "mokume" method


Piece of silk chiffon was dyed in indigo utilising block/resist dyeing technique and then felted on

My recent works _ Nespresso

Hi, again!

While I've been out of covering my activity for the last 6 month it doesn't mean I've been doing nothing. And although most of my recent works have nothing to do with felting or shibori but I indulged myself with beading and other sort of embellishment working on some projects with Australian duo Romance was Born. There some of them ;)

Nespresso, Sydney, Australia, (December 2010)

Anna & Luke received project to create 3 extravagant dresses for launch of Nespresso flagship shop in Sydney made predominantly from coffee pods.
I worked on 2 of them - gold/brown and pink/red/violet ones.
That was fun experimenting with unusual materials )))
There are some photos:






Anna, Luke (RwB), Marcus, me

First garment. Nuno-felting.

Have spent 3 last days making my first nuno-felt garment - skirt (but can be worn as a cover-up). Of cause reversible. Apart nuno-felting I have applied couple of shibori techniques ("mokume" & "marbling").




Just finally realised in how much trouble I've put myself again. Felting is so time consuming and very physical )))

My textile experiments. Other techniques. Part 3.

Some new textiles I've developed recently.

My textile experiments. Other techniques. Part 2.

Creating the "reptile skin" effect. Some experiments with knitting & smocking.

Under pressure...

Just a little trick I have learnt experimenting with felting.

It is usually suggested not to steam or heat-press felt but actually if your piece of nuno felt came out a bit thicker and not as even as you planned it can be corrected by heat-pressing it for 20-40 sec. at about 150 C.

My textile experiments. Other techniques. Part 1.

There are some other textiles I've designed working on my collection.