| One of my favorite techniques, it's based on the ancient Japanese style. | ||
| The Japanese use many different forms of resist dyeing. There are many stitched patterns which form around the tightly drawn, stitched design; on the next page I show a heart done by stitching -- same principle but much less complicated. One of the most common is the Fawn-spot method where small pinches of cloth are drawn up and wrapped or stitched in a repeat pattern, sometimes grain of rice are used to wrap in the small bit of fabric, many designs can be achieved this way although it's very tedious. | ||
| Traditional Shibori is done with large bamboo poles; we use PVC pipe -- it's available in many sizes, easily cleaned and readily available. The garment is wrapped around the pole, straight or diagonally, then wrapped around evenly with floss. You then scrunch the material down to one end of the pipe. By twisting the fabric as you scrunch you get a stripe effect between bands of color. | ||
| I prefer to wrap things diagonally (as you'll see). The innermost layer of fabric will be lighter as less dye reaches all the way through. By saturating with more dye a more even effect is achieved but sometimes the contrast is very pleasing. | ||
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I call this my "Tiger Shibori" because of the colors.The lower right front is lighter here |
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| The three examples below were all folded in half before being wrapped around the poles, all were wrapped diagonally but the size of the pole, quantity and type of fabric, and amount of dye are all variables. | ||
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| Center: Knit cotton dress, 4 in. pipe, medium amount of dye; rolled in from neck edge first. The v-waist is an illusion, the waist ties at the back were wrapped along that line and made a ridge causing the two v-lines. This was an accident but a very nice looking one. | ||
