SHIBORI & TIE DYE

Dyeing Basics

Use good quality dye

Use soft 100% cotton or linen fabric

Prewash fabric

Let dye soak for 24 hours in plastic before unwrapping

Use a mordant and fixative

Mordants & Fixatives

Mordant: a substance, typically an inorganic oxide, that combines with a dye or stain and thereby fixes it in a material. Can be added to dye, but is better as a presoak for the fabric.

Dye Fix: used after dyeing to help link the dye to the fabric

Classroom Basics

Dye outside only.

Use gloves and smocks

Wrap freshly dyed fabric

Label fabrics clearly, so you remember which is yours

Store freshly dyed fabric on the plastic provided

DO NOT DRIP ON THE FLOOR

Put final fabrics on the rack to dry with newspaper to catch the drips

Put you gloves and plastic in the garbage

Clean your clamps and put them back in the bucket

Shibori

Shibori is the Japanese term

(from the word ‘to squeeze or wring’)

It is a bit like tie dye,

but more precise and geometric.

It is usually done with a single indigo(blue) dyebath

It uses a variety of resist techniques which prevent the dye from reaching certain parts of the fabric. The original fabric colour remains in resist areas.

Tyeing

Pleating

Clamping

Sewing

These fabrics have been

sewn and tied.

3 things to remember:

Thing 1

The resist must be as tight as

you can make it.

It needs to be tight enough to prevent

water and dye from traveling along the cloth

Thing 2

The dye does not

penetrate to the middle of

the fabric if you are working

with many layers of fabric

Thing 3

Fabric should be wet or soaked

in plain water after it is tied and

before it is dyed.

SEWING

pleating/folding & sewing

Any shape you can sew, you can pull in to a resist

TYEING

materials

TYEING WITH A STICK

CLAMPING

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FOLDING

ORIGAMI

The key to an interesting

design is precise geometric

folding and tight resist.

You must do one clamped shibori for class.

Good luck

TIE DYE

Tie-dye is a modern term coined in the mid-1960s in the United States for a set of ancient resist-dyeing techniques, and for the products of these processes.

In the 1960s, tie-dye was brought to America through the hippie movement, a youth movement that advocated the sexual revolution, psychedelic rock and protested the Vietnam War. Hippies wanted a way to escape from the strict social norm of the 50s, and tie-dye was just one way of expressing their free-spirited nature.

Before tie-dye became popular, the Rit Dye company was struggling. A company representative got two retired artists to create tie-dye pieces to show to designers and fashion editors and it was suddenly a hit.

After clothing designer Halston started using tie-dye in his designs, stars such as Janis Joplin were wearing it. Soon enough, tie-dye became a bandwagon the entire youth generation jumped on.

Stripes

scrunch fabric vertically.

Wrap rubber bands around the laces you want stripes. You will need two rubber bands for each stripe.

Bull's Eye

Place fabric on a flat surface.

Pinch and lift the center of your bull’s eye.

Place rubber bands along the section you lifted. The number of rubber bands you use depends on how many sections you want in your bull's eye.

Spiral

Tye Dye

You need to produce a spiral and one tie dye of choice.

I will demonstrate additional folds for you to chose from