Shibori

 I took a online classes with Shibori Girl and this is the process that I followed in making mandalas.

 This is tyeing with dental floss.

 This is another piece that I sewed a design in the fabric first.

These are the tyed mandalas.

 On the very end I clapped some large washers.

 Used some syringes to inject the dyes into the fabric.

These are the finished mandalas. It is interesting. I tyed all of them the same. The difference is how tight I tyed the dental floss.

These are the pieces which I sewed circles for design.

 I had ripped a old vintage light weight linen kimono apart and these are the rest of the pieces dyed.

I am busy thinking through how to use this for a garment. I think the mandalas will be placed on the sleeves and the circles will go on each front and the rest will be the filler for a long light weight shirt. I ususally have to think about this for a while to get the vision of how the garment is going to look. I am thinking of pin tucking between the two lines of circles. Maybe a couple of rows. What do you think? What would you use this fabric for?

It Looks Better

Decided to go back in and do it again and this time with a dark purple.

Shibori Scarf

I follow silk painters on facebook and have learned many things from them. This was one method of shibori shown.

I twisted a scarf and then wrapped it around a pvc pipe.
I used some left over dyes from painting a scarf. Then I let it dry and then I steamed it.
This has a little more white then I like, but I will work harder at putting in the dyes next time.

Some more scarves

These are some more scarves that I am making for the Harvest Festival.

This one was silk screened.
These were clapped.
The red one was silk screen and then I burned the bottom edge of the scarf and the tassels. The turquiose one was rusted and then silk screened on one cornor.

Doshi Influence

I folded and clapped this silk scarf using colorhue dyes to use for a sample for my next class I am teaching. The date is June 4th. Join us. You will have fun.

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.

Shibori

I dyed this scarf with brown colorhue dye. Then used a kitchen rubber mat that you use in a sink and pulled the scarf through the holes. I tyed the silk that I had brought through the holes. The scarf was dyed black and each tyed piece I painted with a dark orange.

This is a sample for my shibori class that I will teach on May 7th.

More Shibori Methods

This scarf was dyed with colorhue dyes. The first was turquoise and then I pulled it through the holes of a rubber kitchen sink matt which I got at the 99c store. I had to cut it in half to make it cover the length of the scarf. Then it was dyed sky blue. This was another method that Glennis Dolce shared with her online class. I like the effect.

Weekend Accomplishments

I finished this t- shirt for my Red Hat meeting this Tuesday. This was a t- shirt that I had laying around and I decided to try out the embroidery machines at school and put a cute red hat lady on it first. I cut off the sleeves and put some red sleeve fabric and made little roses to put on the shirt. I ironed on red crystals.

In my online shibori class we did pole wrapping and I really like the way this one came out. I use orange, purple and red.
For the online class I ordered some plexiglass shapes to do folding and clapping and dyeing. I wanted to see how these shapes would come out on cotton fabric and using procion dye. It is a long process so I don't think that I would do a quilt using several of these squares.

Shibori Class

This is a scarf that I did with colorhue dye and it is a sample that I am going to use for a class that I am teaching March 26th. I learned how to do this from the online class that I am taking.

Another piece from my Shibori Class

I used peach for the back ground and then eggplant, blue and black. One of the circles didn't get tight enough. I added orange to the circles.

I am going to try out some more samples.

Shibori Class

I began a online class a couple weeks ago on joggles.com with Glennis Dolce on Shibori. These are my samples. I have never taken a online class before. I am really enjoying and like the way you can do it when you want to. The discussions that the class do is very helpful. Glennis does videos of her work and that is also very helpful. Glennis is using Colorhue dye and it is a very interesting dye to work with.

Shibori

This is a piece of cotton that I tied rocks all over and then dyed it with safari grey. I really like how it came out. It has some turquoise that showed up in some of the circles. I wouldn't say that it looks very grey, but the brown looks nice.

Dyeing Fabric

A friend of mine wanted some fabric for a quilt that she is making with golden yellow and black. The one to the left is shibori.