作品「樹牆」"The Wall of Tree"

Here is the simulation of the light effect of "The Wall of Tree"

個展作品之一「樹牆」在特別燈光照射下的效果，以下為摹擬的短片。

It is better if you can see it in person.

在展出現場可以感受到材質與光效之間的差異與微妙之處。

Rijswijk Textile Biennial 2011

Five of my works are in the exhibition--Rijswijk Textile Biennial 2011.

You can click here to get more information about this exhibition.

2011年個展 Solo Exhibition

2011年個展6月4日開幕，這次展出作品有一些新的試驗，在現場才能感受到效果，屆時歡迎蒞臨參觀指教。

My solo Exhibition will start from the 4th of June. If you come visit the show, can feel some new experiments about light and textile. Please do come and enjoy.

http://www.gallery107.net/home.htm

春天來了 Spring is here

Spring is here. Shalley removes her winter coat and has her spring coat now. We can gather so much fine wool for only one combing. Most of the hair is from inner coat and is as soft as cashmere.
今年的春天有點晚，雪莉已經換完毛了，每次梳毛總會有一大坨細柔的裡層毛，細柔的品質　有如克什米爾羊毛。

The Mango trees are blooming. It is a special flower that has bad odor. Farmers use rotten fish to attract fly to do the job of bee. Therefore it doesn't smell good when you walk through the mango field.

附近的芒果園也正開花，芒果花有一種奇怪的味道，果農又用死魚來吸引蒼蠅幫忙授粉，所以現在芒果園的味道實在不好。

變色花帽 blooming floral hat

This week I finish two hats made of hand-woven fabric. The fabric has UV thread as weft. Therefore the white hats will "blossom" under sun light. It is cheerful to have these accessories when we saw so many disastrous news recently. It was a cloudy day when I took the photos. The color of flower will be stronger if  it is a sunny day.
這星期用手織布縫好兩頂帽子，因為緯線是變色線，所以白帽子在陽光下會「開」出彩色的花朵。特別在看到那麼多天災的新聞後，看到色彩的變化能讓人稍微開心一點。拍照那天其實是陰天，所以色彩淡了一點。

手織書 Woven pages

The work of this week was warping a white warp to replace the transparent warp on the Jacq 3G at home. This is the advantage of having double warp beams. A regular yarn is much easier to winding and knotting!! The first trial of this white warp is a woven book. There are four pages woven today. The symbols are brocaded. You can find the back of the fabric has long float. That is the characteristic of the brocade fabric. The lower part of the fabric is a test weaving for finding aspect ratio, proper weft and setting the auto cloth advance system. The Jacq 3G has auto cloth advance system which I like very much. The pages are soft and thick which are very different from paper.

這星期把家裡的提花機整上新的白經線，另一捲透明經線只用了一點點，還是先暫停。因為有雙經軸，所以可以這樣處理。經常整奇怪的線材後，會覺得一般的線材實在太好整經了！！！通常一個人間隔整經20多碼、30英吋寬，包含捲線、綁線等步驟，約需要兩個工作天。先嘗試「手織書」，今天織完四頁。注音符號的部份是用夾織技法，從布的背面可以看到浮線，這是夾織的特徵。布塊的下半部是測試，用來找出正確經緯比、適當線材及調整緯密控制的設定。Jacq 3G 有緯密控制器及自動捲布機制，如果一開始設定好，織作時會很暢快，是我很喜歡的功能。今天織完四頁，手感和紙張很不同。

front  前面

back  背面

after stitched  縫合後

無奈的雪莉 Shally is not appreciated

據說「許多常見的貓狗，也會時常輕啣著子女以示親愛」？！

今天試著做狗媽媽，但無法用嘴輕啣著雪莉，所以用手代替，但是雪莉似乎不很喜歡！
An article said that dogs and cats will use mouth to hold their kids to show their love!(?) Today I try to do that to Shally (not my mouth, of course). She is not appreciated.