Silk Scarf 100% Charmeuse Eco dyed. I live in Saskatoon, SK but every two years I travel to New Zealand to participate in an International Art Collaboration called CollaboratioNZ. This scarf was dyed during one of my visits to New Zealand. I usually take a suitcase filled with silk scarves and silk yardage to dye while I'm there. I then spend most of my days foraging for different varieties of eucalyptus leaves and other natural materials such as Kawakawa leaves, bits of Kauri bark (gathered from the ground), and flax pods. I'm quite partial to the shapes and colours obtained from the various eucalyptus leaves that I gather. The age of the leaf, the time of year. and the amount of rain in a given year are all factors that affect the size of the leaves, and the colours they give. Other factors are the way you fold, clamp and/or wrap the bundles, the water used for the dye bath, the temperature of the bath, the amount of time you simmer the bundles, and whether or not you use a mordant. Because of these variables, each scarf is unique and virtually impossible to replicate. Skadi is the Nordic goddess of winter and the mountains where she hunts on skis with her bow.
A panoramic view of the shoreline of the St. Lawrence River near Kamouraska, Quebec
A panoramic view of a church near Kamouraska, Quebec