Sunday 22 May 2011

Tree of Life final piece

I rather foolishly forgot to take pictures of my final piece for the Tree of Life project, however I do have a few happy snaps of the work in progress.

Here's the felt piece, with thicker felt at the trunk, layers of cobweb felt, thicker felt and fabric to form the foliage and cobweb felted roots, which I divided into three distinct parts to represent the three roots of Yggdrasil.

And here's the tie-dyed background piece, with willow shibori patterned base and very (almost too) subtle larch patterned top. Unfortunately I chose too dark a blue dye for the green to show properly. I should have sewn in the larch pattern as before dyeing the blue but I didn't think of that at the time. You live and learn I suppose.

I'll post pictures of the full piece when I get it back from being marked.