Betsy Morrill

Fiber
Fabric Sense
Burnsville, NC 28714
betsy@fabric-sense.com
www.fabric-sense.com

I have always had an affinity with fabric – studying it in college and working with historic textiles as a museum curator. I love playing with colors and designs on fabric – dyeing and printing, cutting, and making fabric puzzles. I try to capture a brief memory of the natural world as I print using screens and stamps. I make organic images that resonate by layering colors and textures until you can't tell where one begins and the other ends. As I begin to assemble a wall hanging, I cut out the most interesting areas of the silk. The yards of printed silk become my palette from which I select other sections of fabric that play with the first piece accentuating a color, a shape or an image. These wall hangings are my attempt to bring our nature's beauty inside.