Empress Wu Designs with Wilma

WORKSHOP   Date:  Sunday, 24 November 2013 Times: 9.30am – 4.00pm  Venue:  Lambton NSW   Exact address supplied once you have registered for this workshop.    Lunch, morning tea, afternoon tea provided. Please notify of any special dietary requirements. Contact   Timeless Textiles  via contact  or leave a comment at the end of this post with an email address, please  Information for participants : This workshop is a combined workshop (two projects in one) and while you will learn most of the techniques for both creating an ancestor bottle of your own and a message stick doll, it is recommended that you focus on creating either one on the day. You do not need to bring anything very much at all, depending on whether you have something specific in mind to create on the day. Please bring a basic sewing kit - scissors, needle and neutral coloured thread, pins Please also bring any favourite sculpting tool...

Tumbuna Bottles  Here are a few pieces which are no longer on my work table - yay,  they are finished! Tumbuna collage Tumbuna Bottles: Tumbuna means 'ancestor' in pidgin. I have been wanting to make some dolls inspired by my experiences in Papua New Guinea , so finally finished some last month.  These art dolls are 'guardians of memories' . I have put inside the bottles little trinkets and bits and pieces I brought home from various trips to Papua New Guinea , and  created a personality for each bottle, shaped from my remembered images of respected ancestors in PNG villages.  My plan, of course is to make a series of these bottle art dolls inspired by other travels ... looking forward to creating the Chinese, English, German, Finnish, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Laotian versions and including little souvenirs from those places in the bottles. little Tumbuna bottle  Tags: This year the first 26 weeks of Tag Tuesday are following the alphabet .....