Nanette Davis
Beaverton, OR
Email
503-626-6283
http://nanettedavis.com/

For over twenty years I have been dyeing silk with the Japanese dye resist method called arashi shibori. I found a way to bond the dyed silk to metal screen and created large shibori, three dimensional wall sculptures with it. In the last four or five years I have turned to bonding the dyed silk to foil, acetate or paper, then cutting strips that I plait into vessels and sculpture.

• Plaiting with painted paper (time required with paper already painted and cut into strips)
• Tea cup basket: half a day.
• Small oval basket: half a day.
• Plaited tube necklace with cedar: one day
• Plaited cedar beads: two in half a day.
• Plaited basket with four feet: 1 day to 2 days.
• Plaited basket with four feet and dimensional pleat: 1 to 2 days.
• Shibori scarf and vessel: 3 days
• Show and talk about work: one to two hours

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