The other evening I was figety, needing to do something - so out came the gelli plate to produce a series of prints based on the small fossil fragments that we find at Aughertree .
Click here for photos of the fossils etc They were fine but what to do with them - well a friend kindly suggested momigami - an ancient Japenese craft, that translated means kneaded paper. By breaking down the fibres it makes the material much stronger - hence being able to stitch into it. I didn't go the whole way of adding oil etc to finish the paper - something for a later time! Anyway I found that I didn't like the prints with white areas left, so these were coloured with walnut ink, which I just happened to have made. I also tried drawing what I wanted to sew with the machine on the back of the cloth (I had adhered the paper to a piece of cotton), but the needle pushed the back of the paper to the front leaving a white mark - so much for that idea! I then machine stitched the outlines of the fossils before adding hand stitching - very therapeutic.
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| Gelli prints ... |
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| ..scrunched up ...and then the white was painted with walnut ink.... |
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| The finished pieces ...what doesn't show in the photogrpahs is how the surface texture of the paper is rock-like. |
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