ENTWINEMENTS

I promised you some pictures of finished things from our Dye Day. We did T's and cotton bandanas. In indigo we did fold & clamp (itajime), stitching (mokume) and binding.

Some pieces were more successful than others (per usual). We all seemed to forget that indigo does not penetrate very far -- the underside of a thick cotton jersey does not look nearly as blue as the exposed side does. Folding a T-shirt in half before making the resists protected the inside from the indigo. We did get some good areas (as hoped for). On our last Dye Day we used fiber reactive dyes that really penetrated.

Here are two shirts made with the same technique, but different styles.

I mixed up three fiber reactive colors and tried out the Dylon Black dye.

The Dylon black is really black but the lighter areas where the dye diffused in are definately blue. The tree is a stitched resist and the other is a combination of shibori -mountain path- with a tie-dye stained glass effect. Then there were some colors left over...

Used standard tie-dye techniques. Matching bandanas and T's.

And last was a request for a dragon.

And then the bag that wouldn't close got two drawstring put into it instead of one and it now closes tightly but in a line not a circle, and the bottom has a button.

I'm packing for my last show of the year, Crafts Park Avenue. Come and see some shibori.