I am finally getting around to posting about a piece that I did last week. I used Japanese Shibori techniques as my inspiration. Shibori techniques are different ways of folding, stitching, or compressing a length of fabric to create a resist for the dye. There are many ways that this can be done. I used pole wrapping as my inspiration. I wound a length of fabric around a pvc pipe in a diagonal direction. Then I wrapped the whole thing with string and compressed it by pushing the fabric into itself from both ends as tight as I could get it. After that I dyed it using fiber reactive dye in sky blue. I waited for a day and washed it out. Here are the results.
I didn't get a perfect pattern, but I'm still pretty happy with my results.
Have a happy week,
Janelle
4 comments:
Gorgeous, I love it!
Wow Janelle
This is amazing!
I love what you have created :D
Real pretty, Janelle! I can see you sewing something beautiful with this fabric :)
Oh wow! Now THAT IS cool! And different, unique and SO pretty! Thank you for sharing that and for your sweet comments! I am going through a bit right now and it is all coming out in the journal - which I was afraid to share at first - thank you for the encouragement to keep it up ;) xoxo
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