Virginia A. Spiegel

This year the Invitational Reverse Auction offers you two truly unique items that allow you to show the world your passion for fiberarts. One is meant to be worn and one is equally at home worn or displayed on the wall.

This is so stunning that you could display it as art:

Woad Kimono-Style Jacket by Jay Rich.
One size fits most. Gunma Prefecture silk organza, a specialty silk developed by Yoshiko Wada and produced in Japan specifically for designers. The organza was resisted and scoured, then resisted and dyed with woad. Woad, the main source of indigo blue in Europe during the Middle  Ages, produces a delicate French blue. Sewn with French seams.

Jay Rich is very well-known in the textile world for his travels to Japan, China, Chile, and the United Kingdom to study, at the source, traditional and innovative dyeing techniques, He generously shares these techniques and his own variations in his teaching.

Jay will presenting two seminars at the 2008 Shibori Symposium to be held at The Textile Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota June 4-10, 2008. He helped establish the Contemporary Fiber Artists Collective, a working fiber art studio at Hot Shops Art Center in Omaha, Nebraska and continues to produce and promote innovative fiberart.

Fantasy Garden by Maggie Winfield
Digital photo editing by Gloria Hansen.
Swing coat; fits sizes 8-16. The model here is 5′6″ tall.
Washable taffetta and cottons. Polyester lining. Tinsel and rayon thread and fabric paint. Raw edge applique, free form machine embroidery, free form machine applique, grid quilting.

Maggie Winfield has been making clothing since she was nine, but started making and designing wearable art in 1991. If you have ever met Maggie, you know she is a great model for her own clothes. They are VERY wearable. Maggie has been juried into the American Quilting Society garment show as well as the Road To California show. She has had garments in the Heritage Quilters Show the last 2 years. Maggie was selected to be a first-time Bernina Fashion Show designer in 2007, and will return as a 2008 Bernina designer.

The Invitational Reverse Auction will be held March 10 -13. All proceeds go directly to the American Cancer Society through Fiberart For A Cause.

A Preview will begin one week from today, on February 21, with details about these works and work by eight other invited artists.

You can see four artworks for the Reverse Auction which were previewed previously here.

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