a shoal of piranhas: hand printed fabric pocket on canvas bag

making three of these piranha pocket canvas bags for sale at the AWARE flea market. $15.00 each! I take orders too : )

a shoal of piranhas: handmade bag complete!

made this bag to carry my belongings to the exhibition opening : )
will be producing a limited number to be sold at the AWARE community day flea on 27th Nov! They will go for $20 each

ORINUNO - the bag that never made it

ORINUNO in The Sustainable Shop, updates

The Sustainable Shop
view from the entrance

went back to take more photos of the ORINUNO bags.

There're two left!ORINUNO bags
front and back

It's interesting how they divided our labour, admin and material costs, and even made a pie chart of the breakdown.

and, I added more books to the collection as there was only one left.

ORINUNO journals
where they're placed

:)

H-nut bag - work in progress

ORINUNO in The Sustainable Shop, now open!

ORINUNO, a series of machine stitched journal covers made with the Argali paper, and a series of handmade bags of the same title, was inspired by a choli design from a bargain at a shop in Little India, Singapore.
(Ori means to fold in Japanes , and Nuno means fabric/cloth.)

On SALE now at The Sustainable Shop exhibition in #B1-46 of Singapore Management University's Li Ka Shing Library.

ORINUNO handbound journals
handmade embroidered cover
made with the Argali Paper
$18.00 each

ORINUNO handmade bags
put together with batik from
Indonesia and calico fabric
$25.00 each

orinuno or oribatik

cut iron sew iron cut sew stitch sew iron cut cut sew sew ironnnnn


it's been going on like this for several days now.

Just finished with this piece. I swear i took 10 hours for this section alone.

ping-pong-sewing

i kind of like how this turned out.


a hybrid of how indo meets jap.

Canvas Bag : Attempt 1

Mama taught me how to use the SINGER sewing machine again after 10 years. I'm so old now and it's time to start training again for 50 bags.

after 2 hours and. . .a very badly made bag

I'm now worrying about the quality of the bags. I can't seem to sew as well as before on the treadle. i can see some improvements though, but i have to stop. Mama went to attend a funeral and can't tell me what's wrong with the jammed machine.

instead of wasting time