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Wild Like the Sea by ~nolwen:iconnolwen:

Categories Artisan Crafts > Costumery

©2007-2009 ~nolwen
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My Coastal Guardian.
It's kind of hard to tell what's going on here, as there are so many layers. Photo's just don't do it justice.
All the layers are hand dyed silk, and then are over-dyed using the pole wrapping Shibori technique.
There are shells and other bits for details. I'll upload a some detail shots soon.

Photos by Josh Hines of The House of Light and Letters.

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~Akireshaun Jun 17, 2007, 9:13:37 AM
I love this one! I so love this one!

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~Federkiel Jun 17, 2007, 10:07:47 AM
my god, i like your guardians so much! *___*

the materials looks so great. but i have one question. what's the 'Shibori technique'?
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~Verdaera Jun 17, 2007, 11:01:49 AM
Gorgeous! And I love how you can't tell how someone gets in and out of it *g*

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~Snowberrylime Jun 17, 2007, 11:26:49 AM
Gorgeous! This is one of my favourite colour combinations!

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~nolwen Jun 17, 2007, 11:56:03 AM
thank you! it seems to be the popular one ^^
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~nolwen Jun 17, 2007, 12:00:34 PM
It's a Japanese resist dyeing technique, much like tie-dyeing, just without the 80's T-shirt look :)
My Shibori is pretty amature compared to what can be done with it. And I can't really explain in very well, but if you google image it you will find some awesome stuff!
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~nolwen Jun 17, 2007, 12:02:26 PM
Yay!!! you have no idea how happy that make me!!!!! That's exactly the look I was going for. I wanted it to look like it was just part of her, and not just somthing she is wearing.
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~nolwen Jun 17, 2007, 12:07:19 PM
I'm so glad! I normally suck with colours and finding out what colours look good together. But for this one I looked at the colours found in sea-weed and kelp and all the flostam and jestam that gets washed up by the tide.
I'm glad it worked ^_^
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~Akireshaun Jun 17, 2007, 7:55:10 PM
Well all of them are lovely, but this one is very nice. I love the colors, it reminds me of corals and algues.

Well I did my graduation dress last friday, I had to start that day and os finish the same day XD I'll add it here when I take some pictures. Hope to get better when I start fashion school.

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"Oh child, why?"
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~RenaDementia Jun 17, 2007, 9:18:35 PM
This is so gorgeous, it looks like a sunset and sea weed :D
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