Ken Smith's Textile Art
Welcome to my
re-organised and up-
dated
website! The wallpaper on the site is
developed from the detail of
the layered piece Wellington
which appeared on the
cover of Issue # 71 of
Textile Fibre Forum in 2003. This began as a
demonstration in a class on Layering, Optical
Colour-Mixing and Texture in Wellington,
New Zealand, in 2001.
This and all other images from this point are thumbnails. To see a larger
image, just click on the thumbnail.
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the browser tool bar.
All links appear in blue (but not navy).
I have had to change this page's heading to Ken Smith's Textile Art in
order to differentiate it from the title page of the old, defunct website so
that search engines can recognise it.
November, 2011:
The next issue of Down Under Textiles (Issue #6, out now - 28.11.11)
features a profile of/interview with me, together with an Aussie Shibori
project - a sarong length in one of my techniques, Rorshach Technique.
The magazine is not available from newsagents.
A hard copy or an internet version is available by subscription from Down
Under Textiles, Creative Living Media, at
www.creativelivingmedia.com.au
The magazine is currently offering a free 6-month online subscription, as
well as paid hard-copy subscriptions.
I believe that The Thread Studio also stocks hard-copy versions (paid, of
course).
Workshops/Courses
I offer an extensive range of courses in both silk painting/Aussie shibori
and freemotion machine embroidery. Courses are available to suit
students at all levels - beginner, intermediate and advanced.
Intermediate-level courses are designed to reinforce basic skills while
extending the range of skills. More advanced courses tend
to be technique-specific or theme-specific. To mention just a few:
Beyond Gutta: Silk Painting Without Tears © (exploring the way fibre-
reactive dyes work and interact on stretched silk)
Aussie Shibori © (several workshops featuring my variations and
adaptations, including hybrids, of classic shibori, but using colours rather than
indigo)
Fabric Manipulation for the Fearful © (exploring textural effects achieved
by manipulating silk and combining them with FME)
The Miraculous Meander, or Wandering to a Purpose © (understanding
this ancient pattern and exploring its decorative possibilities - and those of
variations)
How to Become Almost Completely Detached © (work on dissolving fabric
or on small pieces for attaching to an embroidery)
Holier Than Thou * (different kinds of apertures/holes in FME)
Into the Woods! * (interpreting bark, lichen and fungi in FME)
* © as machine-embroidery course titles
Workshops/Courses gives contact details.
About will tell you about my background and my attitude to my craft
and teaching.
Artworks will introduce you to pages featuring my work. The page
Machine Embroidery (accessed from Artworks), has three sub-pages
which show my work. One of those, Faces, has a sub-page about
technique. Links at the bottom of the pages provide navigation.
Because they contain many images, some pages (Faces, Wearable
Art and Character Cloth Dolls) may be slow to load. Please be patient.
Contact Information
Postal Address
P. O. Box 39, KETTERING, Tas. 7155, Australia
Electronic Mail
Telephone & Fax: + (61)3 6267 4169
Mobile: 0418 577 896