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Sundance Studio is the creative venture of Melbourne based weaver, Emma Shepherd. Each piece is made by hand, imbued with connection and care.

We offer a thoughtful curation of work, made slowly in our Mornington Peninsula based studio.

04/08/2026

Japan March / April •

25/07/2026

Net VI
2025
62cm x 122cm
Linen, wool, silk, bast fibres

Available on the website.

23/07/2026

A brief, beautiful stop in Venice to hear talk with Miriam of the De Santillana Foundation and Marina of CASA YALI about books, chance, connections across crafts, travel and experimentation.

What a dream.

15/07/2026

A very large commission from last year •

12/07/2026

A very belated post from my time at Bryans in Japan, helping him run textile workshops for 2 months in March / April. I wanted to share more about the process of katazome (stencil printing) and dyeing techniques, but it takes me an outrageous amount of time to go through the photos + notes. Anyway, for those interested.

1. Underwear kimono from an antique market, most likely handwoven with bast (plant) fibres. Honouring the cloth by giving it another iteration as a quilt.

2. Said cloth, now a WIP as quilt blocks, stencil printed and dyed using a combination of indigo / soot / persimmon. Countless hours, printing, dyeing, cutting, sewing.

3. The process - printing the cloth with rice paste, which creates a resist, using Japanese arabesque stencils which had traditionally been used to create Samuri bedding.

4. 6th generation kimono printer demonstrating.

5. Kimono printing studio. Roof so low, it was impossible not to bang a head, multiple times.

6. Brushes for applying the soot + soy milk (the binder to fix the colour to the cloth) or kakishibu (persimmon dye).

7. A pasted piece, brushed with the soot dye. The paste can then be washed off, and left a grey colour, or overdyed with indigo.

8. 1000 litre indigo vat.

9. Indigo dyed cloth.

10. Indigo seedlings.

11. Making the soy milk which can be mixed with different types of pigments to bind the colour to the cloth.

12. Tools for stencil cutting.

13. Living national treasure for stencil cutting + netting the stencils.

14. Bryan’s home. An old silk worm farming house that he has been restoring and updating for the last 25 years.

28/06/2026

Details of some favourite colour combinations in Chroma, first shown at Lander — Se as part of the show Tether •

26/06/2026

Copenhagen - great pastry, great people, great design, great architecture •

24/06/2026

Details of sliding panels / soft walls / permeable boundaries. Walnut dyed banana fibre and linen. Captured by Ayden Demiri

15/06/2026

A few moments from Latitude, for 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen, curated by STUDIO CD by Claire Delmar

A really beautiful show, but also perhaps the best excuse to make it to Europe?! It’s been a pleasure. Always surprised and grateful to make it alongside such stellar designers / makers.

What a time.

01/06/2026

Nice new things online •

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