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Ellie Beck weaving detail, naturall dyed yarn.JPG

Ellie Beck Weaving : The Things I Do Not Know 2018.JPG

2014, woven wall hanging, naturally dyed greens and landscapes.png

2017, woven wall hanging, wool & silk, naturally dyed, with flower stems.jpg

Ellie BEck weaving : Don't Let the Raptures pass you by.JPG

Ellie Beck Weaving: The Space Between 2018.JPG

2014, woven wall hanging, indigo dyed fleece and found stick.png

2017, woven wall hanging pinks, naturally dyed silk thread.jpg

2014, woven wall hanging, naturally dyed wool and fibres.jpg

2014, woven wall hangings wool, silk, naturally dyed indio.JPG

2015, woven wall hanging, botanically dyed fleece, silks and theads.png

Ellie Beck - loom weaving with Indigo dyed yarns.JPG

Ellie Beck - Petalplum - Weaving Myself - loom weaving blues and whites naturals indigo web size.jpeg

Ellie Beck Petalplum woven greys and pinks her landscape.JPG

Ellie Beck Weaving Natural Dyed yarn detail.JPG

Screen Shot 2018-05-03 at 7.05.57 pm.png

Ellie Beck Petalplum Loom weaving work in progress.JPG

Ellie Beck Petalplum Loom Weavings My stories - Seasons of our Creative Lives.JPG

Ellie Beck Petalplum Seasons of Our Creative Lives stories and ideas, loom weaving.JPG

Ellie Beck Petalplum Seasons of our Creative Lives Weaving .JPG

Ellie Beck Petalplum Weaving detail Deep Inside Her.JPG

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This came up today from my archives. And I think I love this piece more now than ever. I think it’s super super good to love what you make, and to not feel shy about saying it, don’t you??⠀
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I have a weaving sitting waiting on the Loom, for me to come back to it. That’s the way I work where the ebbs & flows of creativity spark for me at each moment. ⠀
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🌿 I have lots happening at the moment, but am not even managing to take photos mostly because the house is a giant mess 🍃 hence the quietness here, but the fullness in life.⠀
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What’s happening in your creative space lately? ⠀

I’m slowly creating colour this week. Yesterday I ground indigo cakes into powder, then had to walk up to my dads to get rotten bananas to feed my vat. The process of extracting colour from nature is slow, and to be honoured - not rushed.⠀
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I always feel connected to Earth when I dye colour, to place, and think about people all over the world and all through history who have been and continue to use plants to colour their cloth, string, yarn, fibres, and bodies too (like my henna-ed hair).⠀
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This photo is from my workshop @thinkthornbury in Melbourne last month. Taken by Nathalie @handsofamaker, this sweet little stack was dyed during the class by @tam.2312 ⠀
One year I plan to delve deeper into the history of textiles and natural dyeing, and the first string ever made and woven into fibre, the first colours ever dyed over a fire pit. ⠀
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For now I’ll keep playing, experimenting, exploring, making mistakes. And loving the colours that the dye pots gift me.⠀
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📷 @handsofamaker ⠀

At @mill_and_make today chatting with Nikki about some ideas. Lots of vibrant beautiful creative things happening in my home town. Tell me about good things happening in your home town?? 😊
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This arts precinct @m_arts_precinct is a hub of goodness including Nikki’s yarn shop, @theyellowbrickstudio art supply shop, and the new @tweedregionalgallery Gallery DownTown. ⠀
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And you can pick up a copy of @byron_arts_magazine with @hellegoosey on the cover, and the article I wrote about @artpostuki inside! ⠀
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Woah - that’s a lot of name dropping 😂, but that’s because there’s a lot of good peeps in my home town.

Some fabrics from my collections, from my dye pots. I plan on spending most of the weekend dyeing fabric for you and for me. And I’m very happy about that ! (The weekend you say? It’s only Tuesday! Yes that’s how much “other” stuff is taking me away from my dyeing lately).⠀
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What colours do you think I’ll create? Sometimes I’m never quite sure until I begin. What do you want to work with?⠀
What will you make?⠀
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If you’d like to get your hands on a bundle of my hand dyed naturally dyed fabrics, then jump over to my website for Little Moments Creative fabric kits. There’s only a few spots left in my pre-order. ⠀
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When you pre-order it helps me as a small business owner / creative maker who works in small batches to plan how much fabric to dye, cut and stack into lovely piles of deliciousness.

It’s the first day of Autumn here. I saw golden leaves 🍁🍂 on the persimmon tree this week. The golden rod flowers will be in bloom soon for my dye pots. The slow change of the seasons watching, enjoying, being with them all.⠀
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It’s raining here today. This photo was from a couple of weeks ago, but our garden is still lush and vibrant. The orange cosmos, dahlias and zinnias still giving abundantly.⠀
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Life has been big / hard lately. I’m enjoying and soaking up every little moment, slowing into the human interactions. Breathing and appreciating. And being gentle with myself and my family - an always journey of leaning into the challenges we’re each faced with.⠀
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Happy 1st Autumn or whatever you’re celebrating today 😘

The last days of blue nails and I think I’m going to miss them 💙🧵😊💅. Guess it means it’s almost time for another indigo vat and some more dyeing....⠀
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I made this pin cushion this week. A scrap of linen, some crochet cotton from the op-shop that I left overnight in the indigo vat (and it came out deliciously variegated), and a little bit of stuffing from an old pillow we had. And half a day in bed stitching. ⠀
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I’m hosting a pin-cushion swap because .... well just for fun really. I do think they’re a sweet bit of lovely, but also very practical and a perfect way to make something small, humble, special to send to someone else. Are you keen to join in the swap??⠀
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You might be my swap partner and get one like this, or have another swap partner and get something totally different hand made by someone else. I’m so excited to see.⠀
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The details are in my link up there 👆. And what I’d love you to share is what do you think makes a pin cushion just perfect ? A few people who have joined the swap already haven’t ever made one, so I’d love your thoughts on the process.... 📌☁️

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