CONTEMPORARY TEXTILE

texturesPLUSpatterns

B e N j a M I n S i m

CONTEMPORARY TEXTILE

texturesPLUSpatterns

Intuition

Enamored

Moxie

Transcendent

Infatuation

Dapper

Deludge

Curvaceous

Visissitude

Chichi

Recumbent

Pulchritudinous

Oblique

Evasive

Effervesce

Chutzpah

Passion

Vague

Verdant

Augury

Apparition

Derring-do

Juliet

Beacon

Ripen

Special Thanks to:

Ina Conradi ChavezPaul Tan from OWEN Trading Company

Thank you:

The Sim FamilyRidwan MadonTan Nur SaufiShellen Teh

Shibori pieces: OWEN Trading Company Benjamin SimPhotography: Benjamin Sim, Ridwan Madon, Tan Nur SaufiEdited by: Benjamin SimBook Design by: Benjamin SimPublished by: Benjamin Sim © 2010 Benjamin Simowenpleats.blogspot.com

All rights reserved. No part of this publicationmay be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronically,mechanically, or otherwise without prior permissionin writing from the publisher and artist.

Shibori, a Japanese word that came from the verb root shiboru, which means to wring, squeeze, press, refers to the many ways of embellishing textiles from the shaping of cloth to securing them for dyeing. This book documents various types of fabric manipu-lated using the shibori technique to produce different interesting textures and patterns. Rather than treating cloth as a two-dimensional surface, shibori turns it into a three-dimen-sional form through methods such as folding, pleating, twisting and plucking. The resultant cloth is then secured by methods such as knotting and binding.

Shibori is thus an art that acknowledges and explores the piable nature of textiles and their ability to be created into a great variety of different shaped and resisted designs, add-ing a unique character to each and every one of them.