Treenway Silks | Artwork

Treenway Silks has been hard at work creating our own artworks using silk fibres, silk threads and ribbons, beads and more. Here are a few of our latest pieces.

We used silk fusion, silk threads and ribbons, beads and charms, lace, dyed silk fibres (throwsters waste, carrier silk rods), silk coccons, wire, paint, stamps, shells, buttons and lots of imagination!

To learn about silk fusion see The Inside Out of Silk Fusion. This technique is great for creating paper-like sheets of silk fibre fused together ready for stitching, collage, stamping, sewing, embellishing, journal covers, hats, vests and on and on. Silk fusion can be gossamer thin or sturdy as leather. You can use dyed or natural Tussah silk fibre to make silk fusion and embed feathers, lace and other silk fibres. Silk fusion can also be molded into 3 dimensional shapes for scultural pieces.

We hope you find our works inspiring!

Weaving
"Hollyhock" Sue Earle	"Chelsea" Sue Earle
Sue used 3.5mm and 7mm wide silk ribbon as the warp in this scarf sett at 7.5dpi and a novelty yarn for the weft. She wove it on the Ashford Knitter's Loom.	Sue wove this scarf with a variegated Fine Cord reeled Bombyx silk and solid 8/2 reeled Bombyx silk yarn. For the weft she used the Fine Cord and 8/2 together sett at 12.5dpi and for the weft she used the Fine Cord. She wove this scarf on the Knitter's Loom.
Jazz Time Sue Earle	Melancholia Sue Earle
Sue hand spun the weft yarn using Treetops Autumn Splendor in Tussah silk and plyed it randomly. She used an 8/2 reeled Bombyx silk as the warp sett at 12.5dpi.	Sue also hand spun this weft yarn using Treetops Fall Folliage Tussah silk rovings. She used it single ply on the same 8/2 silk warp as Jazz Time.
Felting
"Night on the Town" Teri Shaw	"Kat in the Hat" Teri Shaw
Teri knit both these hats with worsted weight wool. The red hat was knit using two strands on 10mm needles and the striped hat using only one strand on 8mm needles. She then put them in the washing machine to full them. (The striped hat also doubles as a bag!)
Silk Fusion
"Sunburst" Karen Selk	*Detail*
Karen used hand–dyed silk hankies and textile medium to create this stunning vessel. This technique is refered to as silk fusion or sometimes silk paper.
"Intertwining" Sue Earle
Sue made the silk fusion with 3 layers of tussah silk roving and embedded reeled silk yarn on the top layer. The diagonal plaited basket was inspired by award winning basket maker Joan Carrigan.
Surface Design
"Flight of Fancy" Sue Earle	*"Detail"*
Sue dyed the interior and exterior of this gourd with leather dye then attached feathers along the rim.
"Dreamscape" Sue Earle	"Gourd Vase" Sue Earle
Sue dyed this gourd vessel with three colours of leather dye, burned curving lines around it, burnished it with a golden top coat and attached a piece of local driftwood.	This wall vase is the top half of the feather gourd above! Sue attached local driftwood and dyed it inside and out.
Dyeing & Spinning
Trish Murrary	Trish spun this single with 50g of Treetops Bombyx Silk sliver in Jacquard.