Hopi Birds Designs

'Hopi Bird' Silk Designs - Three Dresses with similar designs based on Hopi Pottery.  Synthetic dyes used.

Bird designs:  Inspired by Native American culture: images of abstract bird designs of the Hopi Indians applied to pottery. They reached a height of decorative abstraction, adapting bird designs to fit over any curved pottery surface; a brilliant applied design, in natural pigmented black, terracotta and cream colours. Designs are 'curved' exactly as the originals on Hopi pottery, but applied to a two dimensional surface of Habotai silk. Feathers were added around the birds together with a selection of embroidered Native American quotations.

•  Red Hopi Dress.  (SOLD 2025) has two front silk panels with stylized Hopi Birds - black/red on white, and red/white on black.  Patchworks uses a red linen skirt and black viscose print in long red dress design. Vogue Pattern by Sandra Betzina. The vogue pattern facilitated side extended pieces which hang well in silk.
• Opaline Rose dress has tier of grey silk painting with print from sweetcorn leaves, and with Hopi Birds, and embroidered Native American quotations.
• Grey Hopi pinafore has front silk panel of Hopi Birds with feathers and native American sayings combined with grey cotton panels from a Per Una skirt. Winter thickness. Slim fit: (UK size 8 bust, UK size 10 hips)   All dresses modelled by visiting guest, Spanish teacher Marian

    Native American Quotations embroidered on silk: 

"Walk lightly in the spring: mother Earth is pregnant" ~ Kiowa

"Plants are our brothers and sisters; they talk to us and if we listen we can hear them" ~ Apache

"After dark all cats are leopards" ~ Zumi

"We will be known forever by the tracks we leave ~