Product Introduction

DRESSES

ROBES

SKIRTS

JERKIN DRESSES

JACKETS

PATCHWORKS

PLANT DYED SILK

HAND PAINTED SILK

Patchwork dresses in mostly linen, cotton, viscose, lace. Knee length and longer. Typical mixture of fabrics are floral illustrative and patterned/abstract/animal/geometric/plain.

Robes and dressing gowns can be commissioned with your own favourite old clothes fabrics or choose from my fabric collections: Abundant collection Lilacs, Pinks, Purples, Reds, Reds-Pinks on Black, Peach, Grey, Blues, Turquoise.

ROBES of long patchwork panels were the first Shamanic Nights patchwork garment project in 2009.

LILAC LOTUS (see original robes)

Patchwork robe in lilac and white cotton, poly-cotton, and silk: featuring white cotton embroidery Anglais.

Long robes are fully lined. This one is in warm white brushed cotton.

Still available in Shamanic Nights ETSY Shop

Robes and dressing gowns can be commissioned with your own favourite old clothes fabrics or choose from my fabric collections: Lilacs, Pinks, Purples, Reds, Reds-Pinks on Black, Peach, Grey.

A few skirts are made each summer for Craft Fairs, with few pieces for quicker making than my patchworks. Wraparound or elasticated waist is easy for most sizes.

Three 'Summer Blues' skirts are available with wraparound or elasticated waist.

TURQUOISE DREAMS

Turquoise Viscose (side flaps and sash belt). Silk voile patches of abstract circles print in greens and blues, machined on turquoise silk (which acts as upper skirt lining). Voile looks flimsy, but skirt is robust due to viscose.

Available by email but not in shop yet

Robes and dressing gowns can be commissioned with your own favourite old clothes fabrics or choose from my fabric collections: Lilacs, Pinks, Purples, Reds, Reds-Pinks on Black, Peach, Grey, Blues, Turquoise.

Jerkin Dresses are made for mid seasons - Spring and Autumn, to wear with jumpers and leggings underneath. I combine colours with different top to skirt, with hem interest. Style is always button fronted , 'A' Line or waist fitted, with capped sleeves, suitable to wear over jumpers, leggings and jeans. Usually the collar or hem or both will be an interesting feature.

D'ARTAGNAN

Country-smart wool and corduroy jerkin style dress luxury embroidered brown 'shot' taffeta collar and belt.

Available in Shamanic Nights ETSY shop

Jackets are fun in patchwork, worn over plain skirts and leggings. Thicker fabrics; linens, cotton are suitable.

TUSK Patchwork

White/Cream/Grey/Silver plain and print patches were fitted to Vogue Pattern pieces with slim fitted sleeves, adding a hem extension.

Tusk is available in Shamanic Nights Etsy Shop

Robes and dressing gowns can be commissioned with your own favourite old clothes fabrics or choose from my fabric collections: Lilacs, Pinks, Purples, Reds, Reds-Pinks on black.

PATCHWORK artistry

My love of recycling with patchwork explained in My Ethical Commitment.

Design Philosophy of combining fabrics: harmonising designs, colours, choosing printed fabrics.

Example: Capuccino Cream Patchwork arrangement

Some garments are composed of totally of geometrically arranged patchwork grid. Others use a mixture of up-cycled parts of garments with some patched arrangements.

This patch arrangement forms two available dresses, also worn as skirts.

Cappuccino Coffee Cream

Shamanic Nights on ETSY (to add)

Shamanic Nights silk painting is done on shiny Habotai 8 and Habotai 10 silks. I also use Ahimsa 'peace' silk' which is thicker and softer with only slight shine. Paintings are more subtle on Ahimsa, as the colour steams out partly. Habotai retains full colour after steaming, so better for bright colours.

Silk Painting Examples:

HOPI BIRD Designs

Three variations with one idea based on an abstract bird design from old Hopi pottery. In Red Hopi, the bird design is painted on both white on black and black on white (the black is silk dye)

Available in Shamanic Nights ETSY Shop

Silk paintings are designer's own, on silk hand dyed from plants. Painted designs, colour coordinated to patchwork prints, add to the uniqueness of each garment. Newer garments will be more tabard style, giving focus on the painted panel. I dye silk Ahimsa off-cuts acquired from an Irish fashion maker. 'Ahimsa' is 'peace silk' where the silk worms are allowed to continue their cycle; a thicker silk like thin cotton, which tends to result in paler colours after steaming. Habotai shiny silk is also used which gives bright colours.

Many shades of gold and cream silk backgrounds are achieved with natural plant, seed and bark dyes: from author's own wild foraging and woad growing. More info here. See blog Side Bar navigation Author's Plant Dye Processes for the many dye processes experimented with so far: one for example with walnuts.

SILK PAINTING examples.

Patchworks are somewhat like an area of mixed flowers. Asters and seed heads photo from Eden Project quarry garden in September. More floral photographs are on author's photography site in Floral Galleries Resonant Visions

High resolution prints of photographs - florals, trees, coasts - up to 55 inches for wall art will become available to purchase later in 2021-22 on author's Resonant Visions photography site. Mural commissions also using adaptations of photo images, combined with personal requests.