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Design Walls – What they are and How I build mine

December 29, 2009

Design Wall in my Studio   What Are They I often mention the design walls in my studio and realize that few people, other than textile artists, know what they might be. A painter uses and easel or sometimes hangs canvases on the wall so they can work on their artwork on a vertical surface. [...]

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Studio Design Walls – Completed

December 26, 2009

On a Roll Yesterday I completed the South African Impressions project by wrapping up some loss ends and posting the final photos. Today I finally finished putting up the design walls in my new studio. I did a huge home remodel/addition last year and the house and new studio were completed at the beginning of [...]

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Building a Studio – The Dye Studio

May 15, 2009

  Laundry Room as Dye Studio I did not include a separate room for my dye studio in this house. I considered it but since I don’t dye fabric very often it seemed like a waste of space. My plan this time around was to either dye fabric outside or in the garage or maybe [...]

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Building a Studio – Flooring and Collectible Small Art

May 13, 2009

  Why Carpet The decision on flooring was very easy for me. I knew I wanted carpet. I baste my textile paintings (aka quilts) on the floor and the carpet is a key element in getting that to turn out correctly for me. I wrote a long how-to article on how I baste that you [...]

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Building a Studio – Electrical Needs

May 11, 2009

  Evaluating Electrical Needs Instead of going with standard code for my electrical outlets, putting them every 12 feet (or something like that) I spent some time evaluating exactly what I wanted and needed in my studio. So I made a list of the stuff that I need to plug in: Sewing machines (2) Iron [...]

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Building a Studio – Paint Color

May 9, 2009

  So Many Whites Continuing on with my series on building a studio – today – paint color. I spent a lot of time pondering over paint color for the studio. I always planned on painting it white but there are somewhere near a zillion whites to choose from. I had stacks of white paint [...]

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Studio Lighting – Part IV

May 7, 2009

The Series The other posts in the Studio Lighting series: Studio Lighting – Part I – Requirements & Why I went with Fluorescent Studio Lighting – Part II – Indirect fluorescents in the Studio Studio Lighting – Part III – Solux Track Lighting Today’s post is a discussion of other lighting needs in the studio. [...]

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