Beautiful Silks in Allansford, Victoria | Arts and crafts shop

Beautiful Silks

Locality: Allansford, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5565 1882

Address: 29 Brown Street 3277 Allansford, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.beautifulsilks.com

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25.01.2022 New fabric catalogues with updated textile range is now available. 18 pages 4 swatches per page. A lot of work goes into these and we are very proud if the work and the textile range. https://www.beautifulsilks.com/product/fabric-catalogue/

22.01.2022 If you have been hanging out for a workshop with India Flint and are able to attend this - it will be amazing....https://www.schooloftextiles.com//clothing-the-journeywoma

21.01.2022 A lovely email, a client I know I will enjoy in the future...thankyou! ...this arrived this morning... Dear Marion, My Beautiful package arrived without hiccups on Thursday. I love that they arrive in a calico bag, it is like something very special & sacred is held within! I like it so much, I actually keep my silk in the bags! Thank you!

19.01.2022 My personal scouring on textiles - not the ultimate or only way, just my way....

18.01.2022 Last chance to join this interesting workshop, loads of excellent content and an exhibition next year of one particular piece of work. https://the-school-of-nomad-arts.teachable.com/p/in-place

17.01.2022 A little film made by Hannah French artist - mixing your indigo vat: enjoy.

17.01.2022 Hand woven textiles are something I enjoy, we carry quite a few products made by families dotted about making their living by their skill, and what is produced from the natural world. Hand weavers are almost a culture apart, the whole family is involved and usually the skills are passed from generation to generation. Today I wanted to share my appreciation of what is made by them. We should be paying them more than is asked. I always pay what is requested if I think it can be sold at a reasonable profit. Just a few glimpses here for you to enjoy!

15.01.2022 A few seconds of the machines, these have to be tended carefully....without the skilled human handling them, things would go awfully wonky! We also have many people producing on pit looms! But this is a semi automated loom.

14.01.2022 Kevin McCloud live! Wow! I have just been in Melbourne at Hamer Hall attending Kevin McCloud’s live show. It was most inspiring to hear him and then he started to talk about textiles; where they come from - how for example in Bangladesh a woman might walk for days to work for very little in a factory turning out polyester cushions for very little money - the cushions that decor shops sell in the latest trend colours - things that have very little meaning and could well be d...iscarded when fashions change - the product going to landfill. And how all of that is a yuck process. That’s so different he points out from the good feeling you get when you have something that you know the source of. For instance the hand woven locally made textile merino wool cushions he commissioned recently. (And I am lucky enough to have a friend who weaves exquisite tea towels - he is right- I get a tingle of goodness every time I handle one if her lovingly made long lasting cloths). The great connection he feels with something good every time he uses the cushions he and the designer worked out. Things fir life! I noticed the background of any visual was a beautiful linen..... Thankyou Kevin it was a special afternoon for us! See more

05.01.2022 Another week begins and all mail processed! Tidy and time for a cuppa

05.01.2022 just a simple way of scouring. It's not the 'right' or only way, just my simple way.

05.01.2022 New workshop -29th November to 3rd December 2021 in Waihau Bay Aotearoa - and already has a wait list, which os not too long as to give up hope, so please message me your emails to be added to the wait list thanking you! (New Zealand). In 2018 India Flint and friends were are Waihau Bay in Aotearoa. It was glorious with sublime food, single occupancy accommodation, 5 wonderful days. Arrive 28th November for a workshop that runs 29th November to 3rd December inclusive. This is a 10 person maximum workshop, and we are open for expressions of interest now so planning (and saving) can take place over the next 2 years. If you would like to receive further information, please message me with your name and email, and I'll send you the full details! Thankyou.

02.01.2022 a look into mixing a new vat using the Michel Garcia 1,2,3 method. This is how I do it, it is not a tutorial as such, just a look into what happens at Botanical Studio.