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Screen, 3 panels – Tasmanian celery-top pine, tussah silk, brass

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I created a screen made from tussah silk fibres, teased into sheets and fused to create a strong, lustrous silk paper at Saddler’s Run. The wooden components of the screen are hand fashioned at Grey Owl Studio at Weetah, from Tasmanian celery-top pine, and finished with brass fittings.

See below for some of my process.

I started with silk fibre:

cream silk fibres

From there I fused it into sheets:

This is what makes up the panels in the completed screen.