Having neglected this blog
for quite some time, thought I'd fill in a few of the blanks from 2018...
The Coffee Sack project:
Between costume gigs, 2018 was a year where I pursued other interests that were not costume related but great fun-
I'm one of those people who doesn't go a day without at least one cup of
coffee in the morning. I love pretty much everything about it from the taste to
the smell to the fact that if I don't have a cup, I might have to lie down and
have a nap. If you've got to have a vice, you could do worse! I'm also a sucker
for interesting graphics, texture and fabrics and this project tied all those things together:
One day, I happened upon a
source for the large sacks that coffee beans are shipped in on their way to
being roasted and turned into the fragrant beans we coffee aficionados know
and love. The graphics were unique and the sacks were screen printed with the names of the varieties of bean, country of origin, sometimes the crop year.
My studio turned into a coffee bean bag factory of sorts as these sacks were turned into tote bags of all sizes, floor mats and aprons. It was fun to mix and match fabrics for trimmings, webbing for straps, all the time working around the spots where the bags had been slashed to liberate the beans before roasting!
Once washed, some of the printing faded to the degree that we try to reproduce in screen printing for costumes for that "authentic, weathered" look.
Here's a sampling of the merch-
Tote Bags:
Aprons:
Floor Mats:
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