Treating fabric as a vast landscape with organic printing and shibori rust techniques
Showing posts with label humidity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humidity. Show all posts
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Accidentally on Purpose
Monday, August 9, 2010
Sampling
Did some experiments the other day with 12" widths of silk dupion and hemp silk. I like the results and am anxious to try some big stuff this week.
Above: Hemp silk shibori rust, scanned detail. Love the texture and the gold/bronze color. The blurry marks are due in part to the texture of the fabric and the high humidity. The design reminds me of ikat. The piece was tied, but I chose to scan an area where that's not obvious.
This is the silk dupion sample. I can't get over how deep the blacks are.
Both of these pieces were wrapped with 8 layers for the rust to penetrate. Harder going for the hemp silk, but I thought when I started out that the dupion was almost of equal weight. I've used habotai for so many years, did not realize the potential of dupion.
Above: Hemp silk shibori rust, scanned detail. Love the texture and the gold/bronze color. The blurry marks are due in part to the texture of the fabric and the high humidity. The design reminds me of ikat. The piece was tied, but I chose to scan an area where that's not obvious.
This is the silk dupion sample. I can't get over how deep the blacks are.
Both of these pieces were wrapped with 8 layers for the rust to penetrate. Harder going for the hemp silk, but I thought when I started out that the dupion was almost of equal weight. I've used habotai for so many years, did not realize the potential of dupion.
Labels:
8 layers,
blur,
dupion,
hemp silk,
humidity,
ikat,
rust dyeing,
shibori rust
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Rusty bits fresh off the press
Another hour or so and I might have had to kiss this silk good bye--at least for wearing. I nearly forgot to unwrap the goodies. Humidity was high and the results are strong. Silk satin is difficult to photograph--too much shine--and the scarves never want to lay very flat, so I threw these on the scanner and just did details. All but the last one will be at the EAC gift shop soon.
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