Waiting for Vida

Yesterday I finally gave the design for the front of the laptop bags to Vida (pronounced Vyda). This was developed by Nicholas but took a while to work out because batiking is soooo different to acrylic on canvas.

Vida was delayed two hours in returning to her workshop from Tema because of a slight problem on her journey which involved an overloaded car and a rather over-zealous police officer - but she survived the ordeal in fine spirits after I spent a very pleasant afternoon with her husband Emanuel and their disarmingly cute daughter, Elvira.


Emanuel & Vida with Elvira

The next stage for the design is for Vida to take it to someone in Tema who will cut the 4 blocks that will be required in order to transfer the wax to the fabric and thereby make the batik design. Before the blocks come back I will go back to Vida's workshop with Danielle and Nicholas to experiment with different dyes and finalize the 3 colours.