A TECHNIQUE DRIVEN Blog dedicated to mastery of surface design techniques. First we dye, overdye, paint, stitch, resist, tie, fold, silk screen, stamp, thermofax, batik, bejewel, stretch, shrink, sprinkle, Smooch, fuse, slice, dice, AND then we set it on fire using a variety of heat tools.

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Shibori Folding - no 4


Easy clamping today, just use those cling clips from IKEA or another store to clamp your fabric:


You can play with the fabric which part will be outside, resulting in a stronger result, by now, you now how I folded this ;-)>

4 comments:

  1. do you submerge the entire clamped piece into the dyes??
    i am still mot 100% wuith the process.

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  2. @QuiltSwissy, yes indeed, just a bucket full of water and dyesolution plus soda-ash will do! Best to take hand-warm water as a starting point.

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  3. Leuke streepjes, kleine moeite groot effect. groeten van liesbeth

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  4. I forgot to mention that adding salt wil keep the dye moving in your solution which is quite important when dyeing in buckets.

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