Tree barks provide an almost infinite variety of textures. I tried to reproduce some of them, but there are many more materials and techniques that could be tried. I hope that further in the course I'll have an opportunity to distress some synthetic fabrics, mix materials and yarns and play more with dimensional paints and products like Xpandaprint.
This is the page from my design book, the texture samples are difficult to see, so I scanned them all before mounting.
Four layers of cotton fabric, stitched and partially slashed.
Boucle yarn
Xpandaprint
Layered Muslin, Wadding and Tyvek stitched, then the Tyvek shrunk with a heat gun to produce the gathering reminiscent of the bark of an oak tree.
Folded polyester wadding.
Polyfilla
Scrunched tissue paper
Wadding, muslin and yarn bonded with a hand felter.
2 layers of wadding bonded using an embellisher machine.
Tyvek shrunk with a heat gun.
Rafia
Paper raffia
I made a small textural study in white. It's just too large to scan, so some boucle yarn on the tree on the left is missing from the picture, but it is there to represent lichen. I used thread, rice, quinoa, parchment, raffia, polyfilla and porridge oats then painted it white with acrylic paint.
For my last diploma course I produced a collagraph based on oak leaves (from carvings on the church). The collagraph, and a quilt I made using a paper print stitched to hand dyed fabric, are shown below as they fit with the woodland theme. I used this technique to make a new collagraph, although I no longer have access to a roller, so have done a rubbing instead.
.... and the new collagraph I made for this course. It's varnished with boot polish which accounts for the brown colour.
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