miriam abramowitsch
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about the artist and her work
I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, the daughter of a concert pianist. Following in my father's footsteps, I devoted my life to music and have experienced a long and fulfilling career as a singer and teacher of voice. Having also had a lifelong love for color, style and texture (as a child I wanted to be a clothing designer), it is only in the past few years that I found a way to express my creativity in a visual medium. I live in Oakland where I continue with my musical endeavors and spend every spare moment dreaming up new ideas for creating scarves. |
Felt is created by the alchemy of wool fiber with warm water and pure olive oil soap to produce a versatile material that ranges from spider-fine and soft to thick and strong, depending on its intended purpose. I design my scarves in a number of different ways. I mostly use a blend of wool or tencel fiber, which produces a soft, crinkled, shimmery effect. Right now I especially enjoy creating playful latticework scarves in a riot of different color combinations, and felting a variety of shapes and colors onto lengths of silk chiffon or hand dyed habotai silk.