This is a piece of black cotton from Joann's that I brushed with Decolourant to see what would happen. I know it is Decolourant because when I used bleach, the fabric discharged to brown rather than this grey. To integrated the two colors, I used some embroidery floss to quilt outline the discharged area. I was experimenting with copper wire and affixing beach stones.
In this piece I got a bit more adventurous and did the quilting with the embroidery thread before I discharged the material. If you look in the discharged areas you can see the added texture I got from discharging it after quilting.
Are you familiar with Decolourant? Here is the product page with how-to's for painting, printing, stamping, screening, and spraying with Decolourant. I'll be doing some of that this weekend!
Yes and I DO like the way the puckery fabric has discharged unevenly. As far as I am concerned, the more textured the better. The thread gives dimensional texture while the uneven discharge gives visual texture.
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