The time has come to create a binding for the atara begun here. My client said he wanted a silvery blue to contrast with the white on white. I suppose that I could go scour the fabric district for exactly the right shade of silvery blue. Given that this is for the binding on a not very large piece it means that I would need to purchase a full yard and I only need a small fraction of a yard to nicely bind the atara it makes a whole lot more sense to take a piece of fabric that is sort of close in color and then make it read like it is the right color. I had some lovely silk shantung in a silvery blue adjacent color. I then mixed up a little pot of paint in a silvery blue and block printed the silk using a large rubber stamp. I had a strip of block printed silk but what I needed was a bias strip of silk to bind the atara. For those of you who are not sewing geeks, a bias strip is one cut on the diagonal. It is great to ...
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