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Molly Williams – textile artist and designer

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Love Iznik ceramic design

Iznik ceramics can be dated largely by their colour and design. https://www.christies.com/features/Iznik-Pottery-Collecting-Guide-7183-1.aspx 1480-1520: This early phase in Iznik production saw impressive vessels, usually painted in a bold cobalt-blue and white, and often with patterns reserved in white on the blue ground. The decoration is heavily informed by that of other media, such as manuscript illumination, although […]

Firing Day

I’m going to drum fire two ceramic figures today – it will be a first! I am going to sagger each figure in foil to protect them and to see how the organic materials I am adding might colour the figures. Process I wrapped two lengths of ceramic insulating fabric around the steel drum just […]

Ceramic & textile sculptures

Finally ready for the fire. To create these figures I started with a twisted wire skeleton and covered it with ribbon cut from a medium weight wool/acrylic sweater. I then coated the wool fabric liberally with paper clay slip. Once this layer had dried I applied ribbons of wool fabrics soaked in the clay slip – […]

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Clay and textile sculptures drying in the sun - raking firing tomorrow 🤗🤗 #rakufiring #prismtextiles #textiles #surfacepatterndesign #springtime

New felt today enjoy! #felt #feltingwork

Lovely lunch with lovely Louise today #Woods #crowboroughreflexologists #tunbridgewells

Exhibiting at Woods Tunbridge Wells it’s Claire Dominic and Mike Flight #tunbridgewells #crowborougharts #rotherfield

She’s weathered the winter again and looking more petrified every year!

Doodling Iznik today 🤗🤗#tunbridgewellslife #iznikçini #izniktiles #doodling #doodlingart #surfacepatterndesign #rotherfield