This week was a super interesting one as I got to dye fabric in two different ways. Rust dyeing and Shibori. It was a lot of fun as you got so many different textures and patterns.
Rust dyeing
( This was done in a group of us.)To begin the rust dying we wrapped some material around rusty cans and rusty nails and then tied it with some string. We also wrapped some material around some rusty cans and tied it with string. With other bits of smaller fabric we either used rusty pins and pinned the material or used a staple gun and stapled it together. We layered some of the material underneath a variety of rust objects. Everything was layered and placed into an old roasting tin .
It was then sprayed with white vinegar and was left to sit in the sun. We decided to leave it overnight in the vinegar so we could get really vibrant rust stains. The next day we unravelled all the material and laid each piece of material out on some white paper.
They were then rinsed and placed into a salt bath. They were then rinsed again under cold water and laid to dry. This is the final result.
I’m so please that I gave this a try because it is such a different and interesting way to dye fabric. The outcome is just terrific and I cant wait to include this in future projects.
Shibori
I started off this dyeing process by prepping the material. I did five different techniques. The first technique was a number of rows of running stitch and then it was pulled. (this one didn’t work for me). The second technique was to scrunch material and then tie an elastic band to it and repeat this all over the fabric. The aim was to tie as many elastic bands as I could to this piece of material. The third fold it into a triangle shape as many times as a I could and then trap it into two blocks of wood and then secure it with elastic bands. The fourth technique was similar however it was folded into sort of a rectangular way and then trapped n between to pieces of wood and secured with elastic bands. The final technique was similar to the fourth however instead of trapping it in between two pieces of wood I tied string around it as hard as i could and secured it by tying a bow. Once everything was prepped it was placed into a container ready to be dyed.
It was then covered in hot water from the kettle and I added the indigo powder dye.
That was left to sit for two hours and then I untied everything and rinsed it all out until the water was running clear. I was extremely pleased with the outcome and really hoping to use this within my final outcome. I love all the different shapes and texture the dyes gives.
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