By Osa Mbonu
She was trained as a Bio-Chemist, but she chose to be a textile artist. Her brand name is Moolori Wearable Art, and she is on the verge of showcasing her works in an exhibition titled REMILEKUN. Morenikeji Badmus spoke with OSA MBONU, the Arts Editor of Vanguard, about her works and the up-coming exhibition in Lagos:
You have many beautiful designs on fabrics here; did you make them?
Thanks. Yes, these are my works. I am a textile artist. I design textiles. I draw on textiles.
Tell us about it; is it what they call tie and dye?
There is tie and dye, and there is batik. I do both. But for me to be able to put a pattern on a plain fabric, I have to do the batik which involves drawing a pattern on the fabric before dyeing it. If an idea occurs to me, I usually first capture it on paper as a sketch before transferring it to a fabric. But my sketches are just rough ideas of what I actually want to put on fabrics.
Must you draw…
