Store Turquoise Hand painted Silk scarf 100% Silk crepe de chine silk 8mm - 14" x 72" hand rolled edges.

Bold flowing brush work with liquid dye on silk and beeswax as resist creates a watercolor on silk

• Made with French Silk Paints.
• Soft medium weight silk fabric.
• Size 14" x 72"
• The scarf is made in a smoke-free environment
• You will receive exactly the scarf you see on the photos.
• Can be delivered beautifully gift wrapped.
Can ship international email me for quote.
I have been researching ancients techniques Rozome
 from japan brush work with liquid dye on silk and beeswax as resist, also exploring the endless possibilities of working with organic matter, acid dyes, ink and fluid acrylics. Historically clothing has been created as ritual cloth to celebrate life passages, honored royalty and deities. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, these techniques have been rediscovered as vehicles for dynamic contemporary art and innovative fashion medium.

Laura Calhoun Resume.
Born in Los Angeles California in 1955, moved at age 10 with her mother to Belém do Pará. Laura is an interdisciplinary artist, studied Art Education at the Universidade Federal do Pará. In the 80's Laura left Belém for California and then lived 7 months in Alaska. Her return to Belém in 1987 was marked by productive inquiries store into new form and flow in her paintings, then a year later she traveled to Japan to explore textiles, ink brushwork, Zen meditation and shiatsu bodywork, cultivating textural and material space as well as space in the mind + body.
In the early 2000's in NYC she established a live/work studio in Chelsea, painting and producing several site-specific installations like Transit Tempo, in collaboration with the Central Park Conservancy to celebrate Earth Day: A circle of 18 massive blocks of ice filled with flowers, pods, leaves and branches melted over the course of 36 hours at Central Park's Turtle pond, documented in time-lapse video, and Resting Trees, an ephemeral installation at Swindler Cove in New York City, used fallen trees from hurricane Sandy to create impermanent gathering points for the citizens of the city to rest, think, and play until they were reabsorbed by nature.
Known for her luminous painting's on textiles alternating brushwork and wax, pigmentation, dyes, and fluid acrylics and her practice in mindfulness. Laura now works and plays at Sunrise Delaware Water Gap. and New York City.

HOW TO CARE FOR YOUR WEARABLE ART

We highly recommend dry cleaning for best care and color safety, but if you need or prefer to wash with water read carefully:
​Hand washing silk is a safe mode of cleaning silk.
Use cool water and mild, non-alkaline soap such as Ivory Liquid or baby shampoo or go pro and use Synthrapol Detergent.
No Soaking hand painted silk, If you let it sit in water the colors will run and mix especially on the first wash
While rinsing, you can add a few tablespoonfuls of distilled white vinegar to the rinse water to neutralize alkali traces and to dissolve soap residue and brings back shine!! or add a few drops of hair conditioner to the final rinse water for extra silky feel
Do not use harsh detergents that contain bleaches or brighteners
Do not wring or twist; but roll in towel to extract water or use paper towels
Machine Washing Silk
Use Delicate Cycle and mild detergent (such as Woolite®) wait till the water level full and ready to start the washing, then place your silk in machine
Use the shortest spin cycle
In a top-loading machine, we recommend using a mesh bag for protection
Always separate your colors
Silk Care: Drying Tips
Hang silk garments to dry. The silk garment will hold its shape
As with any fine fabric, never use direct sunlight to dry silk clothing. Doing so can damage the silk fiber and fade the color. Wet silk may yellow in direct sunlight or on a radiator
No wooden drying rack they can leave stains
If you do wish to use a dryer, use the heatless AIR FLUFF setting
For best results iron when still damp using a white cloth over silk or on back side