Eucalyptus
I’m playing around with the eucalyptus dye, and folding and clamping with the bulldog clips again. The hardest part of this work is control, or at least h...
Category: Natural Dyeing
Solar Dyeing Experiments
I’ve been experimenting with solar dyeing — using the heat and energy of the sun to dye fabrics rather than boiling or simmering them using electric...
More re: Open Studio
Here are some of the hand-dyed silk shibori scarves I’ll be selling at my open studio on November 12th: The colors really turned out nice. I also have som...
Red Cabbage
I washed out the red cabbage mold-dyed piece today. It’s not as exciting as I had hoped, and yes, it has a few holes in it. I think holes are just going t...
New Work Begun
I started some new pieces yesterday. Red onions are my favorite, because of their color and the ring pattern they leave. This one is sliced red onions, but this...
Shibori
Have you ever seen shibori? It’s a Japanese technique of tying and dyeing. There are different types of shibori. The silk scarves in the picture above wer...