This is something I have been wanting to try for a long time and then I found an online workshop by Lynda Heines which gave me all the information I could possibly need. The principle requirement is to use mainly non-pure colours, because the whole idea of ice dyeing is to make the colours split...
Category: Dyeing and Printing
Experimental drawing for mono print
Last month I attend the above 5 day workshop with Caroline Wendling at West Dean. Caroline is very keen on allowing chance to play its part, so we started off by picking blind a one inch square cut from a larger image. We had to choose 5 mark making tools one of which had to...
Eco-printed hangings
These were done in the months following the workshop with India. Different bits of fabric were sewn together on to a backing fabric and then put into the aluminium dye pot, having been wrapped around plant material. This is the first one. I used quite a lot of elderberries and onion skins as well as...
Dyeing for quilt making
A catch-up exercise, having found lots of work I haven’t kept a record of on this blog. Last year I did an online course with Elizabeth Barton on various aspects of dyeing cloth for quilt-making. I didn’t get round to actually making any quilts, but I was particularly interested in Elizabeth’s methods for arashi dyeing...
Indigo dyeing
Ann and I finally got together mid June to set up our indigo vat. I had spent ages tying, binding, folding pieces of fabric. This first example is half of a long piece of silk, already knotted, that I had bought at the flea market. I have a feeling that it might have been a...