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How was this made?

1japshibori.jpg

I saw and took the picture of this piece at the ISS in Harrogate in 2002. They were a series of banners displayed, made by a group of Japanese women, called the Shibori Group I believe. Cotton and indigo I believe. Anyhow I find this piece quite intreguing and has led me to an interest in Origami Shibori. Here is a detail of the same piece.

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Posted by Karren on July 13, 2007 01:11 PM |


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Wow, staring at that piece really truly made my eyes burn.

Posted by: Hannah | July 13, 2007 03:41 PM

From the picture I can't see if the banner is made out of 2 rectangles or if it is made out of 1 big square. If it was made of 2 rectangles here goes my guess: I think it was made in 5 steps (2 different ways of folding the fabric and 5 different dye baths) 1/ dipping the central point of the fabric into the dye bath without resist http://www.tobasign.com/kbShibori01.jpg 2/ folding the fabric as follow then clamp and dye http://www.tobasign.com/kbShibori1.jpg http://www.tobasign.com/kbShibori2.jpg http://www.tobasign.com/kbShibori3.jpg http://www.tobasign.com/kbShibori4.jpg 3/ folding the fabric as follow then clamp and dye point http://www.tobasign.com/kbShibori5.jpg http://www.tobasign.com/kbShibori6.jpg http://www.tobasign.com/kbShibori7.jpg http://www.tobasign.com/kbShibori8.jpg 4/ folding the triangle as follow then clamp and dye http://www.tobasign.com/kbShibori9.jpg 5/ then maybe the zig-zag folds were folded again in the opposite way (what was up goes down) then cap the bottom, clamp and dye again.

Posted by: kdk | July 16, 2007 10:45 AM

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