Doshi

I was able to attend a one day workshop with Doshi with my wearable art group in LA. She gave us so many ideas that I want to just try them all. She was very good and inspiring. This was a small scarf that I pole wrapped and then put into a acid dye bath.

This was a sample of silk noil doing some of the sewing techniques she taught and then used acid dye as well.

More Experiments

This is  a piece of silk with ginkgo leaves done with a stencil and a shiva stick.

These are a spiral made out of paper towel and then adding the dye on the paper. I like the way the spiral image came out.

Silk Scarf

I have been experimenting with different types of silk content scarfs. This one was stonewash crepe de chin 16mm and I really liked the texture of it and how it took the dyes.

I laid a cheese cloth stripe across the scarf to see if it would show the mesh of the weave. It didn't, but it held the dyes and made a very dark dye in that spot. I liked the look of it.
I put some salt in some places and nuts and washers. I got some rust effect and images as you can see. I used perwinkle, navy blue, gray acid dyes.
Then at the bottom of the scarf I used a stencil and with shiva sticks.

Dyeing Yarn

This was a fun experiment. I have been having fun filling some of my time with knitting socks. Knitpicks.com has what they call sock blanks that are knitted with a machine. You dye them with acid dyes and then you unravel the yarn. There are two strands so you can knit two socks at the same time. It will be interesting to see how the socks come out.

Two More Scarves

This was done with charteuse and purple+navy blue acid dye. It was wrapped around a pvc pipe with string.

This one is turquiose and purple+navy blue acid dye. The scarf was folded until it was a small square and  two round wood pieces were put on either side of the square and held on with a clamp while it was dyed.