Ruth Singer

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  • Collaboration with Bethany Walker: work in progress

    Collaboration with Bethany Walker: work in progress

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    I’ve long been fascinated by Bethany’s combination of textiles and cement; the contrasting soft and hard materials, the transformation of cloth from malleable to solid objects and the potential her innovative techniques would hold for my kind of manipulated textiles. Last year I applied to a-n’s collaboration bursary to fund our travel and expenses to…

  • Natural Dye : Hypericum / St John’s Wort

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    One of the holy grail natural dyes seems to be St John’s Wort, capable of producing reds, pinks, yellows and greens from the same flowers. Investigating this, I deduce that this ideal plant is Hypericum Perforatum, which is a small plant, quite distinct from the hypericum shrubs that appear to be beloved of municipal planting…

  • Natural Dye : Avocado

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    After about 15 years break, I’ve come back to experimenting with natural dyes.  I am not sure what took me so long. I suppose my old studio wasn’t set up for wet work, and for many years I lived with other people who would not appreciate messy dyestuff in their kitchens. For the last few…