Barbara Rogers
Textiles
Accredited Professional Member
Barbara Rogers trained as a dress designer at the National Art School in Sydney and has worked in the fashion and clothing industry, gaining experience with natural and synthetic fabrics while also designing and producing ranges of clothing. Rogers was introduced to shibori almost 20 years ago by Inga Hunter at a Textile Forum workshop and this has had a profound influence on her work. She has broadened her knowledge of shibori with research in Japan and the United States of America, attending many workshops with tutors such as Yoshiko Wada and Ana Lisa Hedstrom, both well known authorities in the field of shibori.
Her textiles and clothing are individually made, designed and patterned with shibori using leather and fabrics such as silks and linens. She has a particular interest in selective bleaching and dyeing, in building up layers of both colour and design to create unique effects on a single fabric, as well as layering lengths of sheer patterned fabric.
