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Dye some silk and create new flags! The Dallas Flaggers welcome newbies and experienced flaggers to the open studio, where you can learn the silk dye process and dye your own sets of flags and flag poi.

Sunday, November 20, 2001 1333 Skiles (Phillip’s place) Dallas, Tx 75204 1:00 pm to Sunset Weather permitting – we will [...]

Dye some silk and create new flags! The Dallas Flaggers welcome newbies and experienced flaggers to the open studio, where you can learn the silk dye process and dye your own sets of flags and flag poi. Sunday, November 13, 2001 1333 Skiles (Phillip’s place) Dallas, Tx 75204 1:00 pm to Sunset Weather permitting – we [...]

Dye some silk and create new flags! The Dallas Flaggers welcome newbies and experienced flaggers to the open studio, where you can learn the silk dye process and dye your own sets of flags and flag poi. Sunday, November 6, 2001 1333 Skiles (Phillip’s place) Dallas, Tx 75204 1:00 pm to Sunset Weather permitting – we [...]

This is a quick list of the acid dyes that work well for silk flag making.  More details to come.

Hot Fuscia #620 Brilliant Kelly Green #627 Chartreuse #628 Brilliant Blue #623  (just ok) Dharma used to have a good yellow dye, called “dharma flourescent yellow”, but I’m not sure if it’s still available.

Flavine Yellow (good yellow) Rhodamine B  [...]

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These were made with the idea to create stacked disks using pleat ties. The areas where the pads overlap was the real tricky bit, but it came out pretty nice.

The shape reminds me of a prickly pear cactus. Fun!

A fun, bright design that looks great spinning.

This was an interesting design to tie. The idea was to create an asymmetrical star with the center set close to the lead edge.

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A simple, bright, and happy design.

When I created this set, I was thinking of a sort of “black hole” effect, or a space nebula or something. Guess I was in a sci-fi mindset. Then a friend saw it and said he could see a monkey face in the blue center area. That ended all discussion. After all, could there be any better name than “Monkey [...]