and pole wrapped on Saturday. The weather was not as
warm as I would have liked - buckets of indigo wrapped
in newspaper to maintain the warmth. On Sunday, with vats
ready, they were up and at it, producing swathes of blue
cloth. So gorgeous I could happily have taken them of
the washing line and home.
When I could drag them away from the vats, we
explored rusting fabric with ferrous sulphate, plus
colour stripping using brushes and printing blocks.
A few photos of indigo shibori produced over
the weekend.
Clamping No 2
Indigo dyed cloth with potassium permanganate.
Fabulous colour.
After washing out
Wrapped pole just doing it's own thing
Wrapped cotton and silk, and Japanese Larch stitched shibori
Only a tiny taste of cloth produced over the weekend.
Pretty impressive I think. Never enough time to take
photos, life gets somewhat frantic around indigo vats
and enthusiastic students. We all went home, tired
but very happy.
5 comments:
These are gorgeous.
I slept most of yesterday! But oh! what a wonderful time we had. All my pieces are now washed and dry and I'm hoping my ball-gown making will soon be over so I can get a vat of my own going. Thanks for a really brilliant weekend. x
i just have to come see you and learn this.
Hi
Thank you Ruth.
Fantastic work Sue - I forgot to take some pix of your indigo overdyed with rust. Yummy.
Jude - you're welcome, but please make sure you pack the sun in your suitcase.
Hi Tiggy
I write a craft column for a local magazin ein Australia. I would love to use some of these images in the column. Please let me know if this is OK
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