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Kyriaki Sidiropoulou

  • Textile dyer
  • Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Master Artisan
Kyriaki Sidiropoulou Textile dyer
Contact
Greek, English
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+30 6973749930
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Artful silk shawls

  • • Kyriaki uses batik and shibori dyeing techniques
  • • Her career started in 1998
  • • White is not a colour that exists in her palette

Kyriaki Sidiropoulou studied architectural design and attended painting and drawing classes as well as batik dyeing seminars. At Gallery Smend in Cologne she acquired valuable know-how by attending seminars but, in essence, she is self-taught in her craft. Her artistic career started in 1998, when Kyriaki had her own studio. While working in Frankfurt, she was deeply inspired by the city’s museums, galleries, and foreign shops. In 1994, upon returning to Greece, she kept vividly in her mind the images of wonderful fabrics created with the batik and shibori techniques. “They had haunted my imagination so much that I decided to craft my own,” says Kyriaki.

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Works

  • ©Antonis Katrakazis
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Photo: ©Antonis Katrakazis
Dots

This shoulder wrap shawl has an asymmetric pattern of dots painted on a graded background. The fabric is metallised pure cotton that was stretched on a frame.

Photo: ©Antonis Katrakazis
Window flower

This shoulder wrap shawl is dyed with the batik technique on metallised pure cotton fabric stretched on a frame. The hand-pleating of the fabric enhances the elegance of the piece.

Photo: ©Antonis Katrakazis
Flowers

This shoulder wrap shawl is inspired by a chest painted by Theophilus exhibited at Benaki Museum. It is painted on a pure silk georgette fabric stretched on a frame and machine pleated.

Photo: ©Antonis Katrakazis
Multiform

This shoulder wrap shawl of pure silk jersey fabric has tiny crystals and jersey and felt details along the edges.

Photo: ©Antonis Katrakazis
Animal

This batik animal pattern is made using the charge-discharge dyeing process. The aim was to achieve a ‘negative’ crackle effect with this pure silk stole. The handmade pleating adds motion and allows versatility to the item.

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