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 

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