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Thursday, July 10, 2014

Shibori Practice Results...



I couldn't wait to take these apart from their wrappings this morning! I was like a little kid opening a present waiting with baited breath to see what was inside! The above piece is hands down my favorite from all of my test pieces!  


It's the one on the bottom wrapped around the block of wood and wrapped ( a lot ) with the green string.


I wrapped it really, really tight...  which gave it these really cool lines that remind me of lightening...


Here are the rest...


Why do cats always insist on sitting on what ever you are working on?  


Ignore the cat tail... this piece came out pretty but not what I was expecting... I had folded it into triangles and clipped it with big butterfly clips and paper clips... if you look close you can see some of the clip outlines in the white...  I still like the coloring in this one...  


The flowers are from the skirt I bleached out... some of the colors would not bleach away no matter how long I left it in the bleach bath...  same with these pieces...


See the orange in this one at the bottom? ( you can also see the flowers that didn't bleach out ) the orange was still on the fabric when I dyed it. In my brain I'm like, well, the orange will turn brownish when the blue covers it...( I'm not an orange fan, sorry all you orange lovers out there...) I forgot that it would stay orange where it resisted the dye... those pieces were pleated, clamped between two pieces of wood and tied very tight. The pattern is not my favorite and with the orange it reminds me of tigers, lol...  


These pieces are my favorites... the patterns and the colors...


Here is the huge cheapo shawl scarf from Wal-Mart... so the blue turned it a shamrock green... 
Because it is sooo big I wrapped it around a large block of wood and tied it up.  I'm calling it a work in progress because its lacking something...  





There are few small areas where some red got on it and it gave it some great color value... I may be re-wrapping it tomorrow and putting some red into it...  right now it's way too much shamrock green for me... needs a little variety... we'll re-visit this one...



All in all, it was a great experiment.  I am going to order some Indigo Shibori dye and pick up some nice cotton.  I want to make up some scarves. I think the wrapped and bound pieces were the most successful.  I want to try some different clamped pieces, maybe stitch resists too...
More experimenting on the way...  :)














6 comments:

  1. Very nice. I just saw this done at an American Art Show this past weekend. They were beautiful and I regret not creating one....next time!

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  2. Very cool! I can't wait to try this. Thanks for sharing!

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  3. Very fun, I love them all. How exciting to create fabric like that.
    Hugs,
    Meredith

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  4. These turned out so well- the anticipation must be the best part! One of my former student's mom practices Shibori and dyeing (mostly scarves) with natural materials; you might like to check out her blog: http://enchantedhue.com/

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  5. Why have I been away from your blog for so long! Life has got busy, but I am having a blast reading all I have missed and I absolutely love this eco printing stuff. Thanks for recommending Alisa Burke. Her work looks like a lot of fun to look through and get inspired by. Love the new stuff!!! Thanks Happy school year and if you need to you can always click those red heels to go home. lol

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