"Transilations: Paper Batik Quilts"
Billi's Paper Batiks: Artist Journey
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Family: Art Quilt Billi RS Rotthove
Batik, tie dye, inko photosensitive dyes, and vat dyes, cotton fabrics,
cotton batting, cotton thread, handmade beads from The Czech Republic
and glass seed beads. 18"x 26"x 1/4". 1996.
Batik, tie dye, inko photosensitive dyes, and vat dyes, cotton fabrics,
cotton batting, cotton thread, handmade beads from The Czech Republic
and glass seed beads. 18"x 26"x 1/4". 1996.
" Can you do that in paper?" was the question
that changed the direction of my creative journey.
She said, "I love your quilt hanging in the gallery. I'm writing
a book about paper art and can you do that in paper? I
would like to add it to my book. I just need some simple
pattern batiks on paper to take photos". Speaking to me was
*Diane Mauer-Mattheson, a summer workshop visiting faculty
member and author, teaching marbling at Arrowmont School
of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
O' Wow! I immediatly began thinking through the processes of
traditional batik on fabic, a hot wax resist process used with
vat dyes. There would be some translations doing a hot wax
resist process on paper. I wasn't sure which water media
would give me brilliant and permanent colors. I, also, knew I
needed to experiment with papers and wax temperatures.
What a challenge to break my administrative intensity! I was
already intrigued by the possibilities and potential of a new
media.
On the right is a detail image of "Family". It shows the
stitching and beading used on the figures and color fields. The
deep brown and accents of red-orange are photosensitive,
inko-dyes. The wax outlines provided a pool for the applied
colors.
The side panels, above, are batiked and vat dyed. After
drawing the white lines of the grid there were two additional
waxes applied and three shades of a dusty red dyes. The top
and bottom panels were tie dyed using the African akate
kano technique in a cold vat dye, and finally scatter beaded.
that changed the direction of my creative journey.
She said, "I love your quilt hanging in the gallery. I'm writing
a book about paper art and can you do that in paper? I
would like to add it to my book. I just need some simple
pattern batiks on paper to take photos". Speaking to me was
*Diane Mauer-Mattheson, a summer workshop visiting faculty
member and author, teaching marbling at Arrowmont School
of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
O' Wow! I immediatly began thinking through the processes of
traditional batik on fabic, a hot wax resist process used with
vat dyes. There would be some translations doing a hot wax
resist process on paper. I wasn't sure which water media
would give me brilliant and permanent colors. I, also, knew I
needed to experiment with papers and wax temperatures.
What a challenge to break my administrative intensity! I was
already intrigued by the possibilities and potential of a new
media.
On the right is a detail image of "Family". It shows the
stitching and beading used on the figures and color fields. The
deep brown and accents of red-orange are photosensitive,
inko-dyes. The wax outlines provided a pool for the applied
colors.
The side panels, above, are batiked and vat dyed. After
drawing the white lines of the grid there were two additional
waxes applied and three shades of a dusty red dyes. The top
and bottom panels were tie dyed using the African akate
kano technique in a cold vat dye, and finally scatter beaded.
The first phase of learning to do batik
on paper involved gathering all the types
of papers in my studio and all the water media
supplies I had stashed.
I cleaned up my wax pen, originally purchased to
make wax models of jewelry for lost wax casting.
That gave me fine, hot lines for drawing with
wax. I located brushes of various sizes and used a
hot pot of wax to brush wax on the surface of the
papers.
The detail image, "Celebration: Paper Batik
Quilt", on the left is made with the papers I
created experimenting with the waxes and dyes.
The most successful combinations of materials on
the best papers were used to create a variety of
batik surface designs on paper.
Being experimental and allowing the batik
paper's sizes to dictate the crazy quilt effect while
arranging the pieces into a composition. I
machine stitched the edges and stopped to
contemplate what I really wanted as
embellishment.
Not wanting to add any additional holes into the
papers, I chose to utilize the holes already made
when stitching the pieces together. I began
couching multiple strands of metallic and silk
threads secured with floss through the stitching.
Couching along the seams highlighted the linear
elements of the composition.
That helped pull the many patterns of papers
together as a whole visually. Wanting to
emphasize the lines more I began selecting beads
from my collections and began beading the
surface of the paper batiks. The colors of the
beads were key to their use.
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Detail "Celebration: Paper Batik Quilt"
Billi R.S. Rothove 14 1/2"x 33". 1997.
Billi R.S. Rothove 14 1/2"x 33". 1997.
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Detail: Family Art Quilt
Billi RS Rothove
18" x 26" x 1/4" 1996
Billi RS Rothove
18" x 26" x 1/4" 1996
(2010) Billi RS Rothove
(2010) Billi RS Rothove
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