My friend, Sylvia, drove up from her home in southern Utah for her granddaughter's birthday. Since she was in town, and we are both fully vaccinated, we decided to have a dye party together. It's been at least 2 years since we've seen each other in person! I think we spent more time talking than dyeing, but that's okay, it was time well spent.
I taught Sylvia how to create resists by pinching the fabric, and adding rubber bands.
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We used small hair rubber bands to create a resist. This is similar to Kanoko Shibori. |
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A one yard piece tied up with rubber bands before dyeing. |
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Sylvia swirled and tied up her one yard piece. |
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We did a little parfait dyeing too. Only appropriate that we do it in ice cream containers! |
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All of our tied, twisted and clamped pieces after adding dye. |
Sylvia took her pieces home in a bucket, and we both ended up letting them stew in their juices for 48 hours before rinsing, washing and drying. Here are my completed pieces:
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Tiny hair rubber bands on pinched fabric created these very traditional designs. |
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This star pattern is creating by folding and clamping with popcicle sticks and rubber bands. |
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One of my favorite patterns created with fan folding and rubber bands. |
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The three pieces to the left were created in the parfait dyeing, and the other two were squished in a zip lock baggie. |
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This is the one yard piece after it was dyed. |
Jump over to Sylvia's blog at
Bunchberry Studio to see her washed and dried pieces, as well as a few additional photos of me mixing dyes.
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