Silk Itajime Shibori

I am thrilled to show off some new Silk Itajime Shibori pieces done over the weekend. The windy Chicago weather, though warm and sunny lately has made it very hard to get good photographs of the silk because of how it wants to fly and flutter in the wind. You would think I had hatched some new butterflies!

                                 

Family Time, dying fabrics in Florida!

warm tone Shibori Panel on Silk - By Soren

My Family was excited to break out the supplies when I went to Florida last week for vacation. I wanted to show them the Itajime folding/resist technique and they were excited about trying it out. With my family being all truly talented and skilled artists, i dont often get to show them somthing new, so this was very fun for me!

We mixed about 8 colors of procion dyes (from Dharma Trading) and I realized while watching my Mom blend the colors that I have been mixing my dyes way to pale. It is amazing what the difference between a teaspoon and a tablespoon of dye powder can do! We mostly worked with silk panels and the out comes are wonderful, we were all so excited to open them up 12 hours after dying, I swear I have never seen my little brother & sister get up so early in the morning, you would have thought it was Christmas morning!

Here are the results, we were very happy with them,

please tell us what you think!! enjoy!

                                                              Fushia Panel - By Sandy B.

Blue/Green/Fushia Shibori Panel on Silk - By Sarah

Tie-Dye Style cotton panel #1- By Ben B.

Tie-Dye Style cotton panel #2 - By Ben B.

red umbrella style folded silk panel - by Soren B.

 

                                                            orange/yellow panel - by Billy B.

                                                        Shibori Tee Shirt #1 - By Billy B.

Silk Itajime!!!!

This turned out much better than I expected.

I will do a lot more silk now!

New Dyed Panels!

I did these over the weekend. getting larger and larger pieces with better results. i think i need to re-mix my dyes, some of the colors are coming out very pale and washed out (yellow). the purple & orange piece is 2 full yards.

re-mixing colors and doing any projects with these pieces will have to wait! I'm headed to Florida to visit my family, I'm sure we will produce something, maybe some new tie-dye style shirts! i will post photos after my trip!

later today, i will upload some photos of my first silk dyed piece, its very pleasing and more will be in my future!

more photos... out to dry.

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getting started... what I'm up to!

Explorations in Itajime fabric dying. These pieces are hanging out to dry after unforldint hem for the first time. I love the geometric patterns and the suprise element involved.