Another example of using soy wax

For today I am going to show you another example of using soy wax resist. Using this computer part, officially called a metal wire finger guard grill for a computer case fan as a stamp. I bought mine at Amazon.

It is metal, so it get hot when you put it into the soy wax. Be careful and use pliers to hold it. With this grill I stamped the whole fabric.

Placed it flat on a raised platform in a container, added snow to it and sprinkled the soda ash powder together with the Procion dye powder. I used Better Blue Green, Parakeet and Kingfisher Blue (all Dharma). Left it like that till the next day. After rinsing, washing and lots of ironing it turned out like this:

In both today's as well as the previous blogpost I used snow, but this could also have been done using ice dubes. As you have seen, soy wax works great in combination with snow and ice dyeing, but keep in mind that not all resist will work that well. Resists which dissolve in water like potato dextrin, sugar, baby food do not work. While the snow or ice melts, it dissolves the resist. You will get some pattern on your fabric, but not as clear defined as you might have wanted.

Soy wax

A lot of techniques which you use with regular dyeing, can also be used with snow and ice dyeing. In today's blogpost I will show you an example of using soy wax resist. Using an old brush I applied soy wax to the fabric.

I placed the fabric flat on a raised platform in a container. Put snow on top of it and sprinkled soda ash powder together with different dye powders on it. For this one I used Cardinal Red, Gunmetal Gray and Caribbean Blue. Left it like that till the next day. This is how the fabric looked after the snow had melted:

After rinsing, washing and ironing the fabric looks like this:

Keep in mind that for ironing soy wax out of fabric you need lots and lots of old newspapers.