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Students make tie dye spirit towels for Homecoming during Getting Groovy with Tie Dye on Chamberlain Field, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019.
this was mint green when I started
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CN L517 was on a pretty good roll, so I didn't have enough time to get up to the overpass east of the CSX diamond at Dyer. You'll have to settle for this broadside instead.
From the 2010 Maiwa Natural Dyes workshop. Some of the samples.
wool
mordant alum 15%
and then a variety of natural dyes - see some of the detail photos for dyes used.
Jacquard Acid Dye sample kit from Spinners Choice. The colors are Violet, Sun Yellow, Deep Orange, Emerald, Cherry Red and Sky Blue.
This man is giving an indigo-dyeing demo. Next to him on the platform are the paraphernalia he uses and cloths he's dyed.
All parts of the indigo plant are put into clay pots like the one in front of him and the dye extracted. The dyeing process itself involves wringing the coth in a specific way, as he is in this photograph, to distribute the dye evenly. The more number of times you dye the cloth, the darker it becomes.
The dyed cloth is dried and burnished using smooth, round stones passed on through generations. Depending on where and how the indigo is grown, the dye can have a green or purple tinge.
This man had made a woman's face mask out of a cotton cloth that after dyeing with green-tinged indigo and burnishing for three days, looked like moss-green, beautiful, shiny silk.
I ordered an some indigo dye online. This weekend my friend and I dyed some shirts and other misc items. Cover my whole backyard fence. Super rad. Can't wait to wear it. I highly recommend you try it.
These may become the radiant colours of saris and salwars. In the bokeh one can discover a banana stand. Seen in the market hall of Pondicherry, India.
Silk hankies drying. These are layers of individual silk cocoons stretched out and layered in the square "hankie" shapes. To spin you pull off a layer, poke a hole in it, and stretch it until it is the grist of the yarn you want to spin. You can even knit it without spinning it first. Silk is so strong, you definitely get a workout stretching out the fibers.
Students make tie dye spirit towels for Homecoming during Getting Groovy with Tie Dye on Chamberlain Field, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019.
Students make tie dye spirit towels for Homecoming during Getting Groovy with Tie Dye on Chamberlain Field, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019.
This room is set to be completely gutted and redone in October, 2006. So I've been using it for "messy" crafts all summer, 2006. This is a picture in late September, 2006, just before I clean everything out so the contractors can get to work.
Sadly, I'll have to do tie dyeing either in the garage our outdoors after the room is redone - it will be a shared office/family room (with new hardwood floors that I won't want to permanently stain with cellulose-reactive dye!).
The shirts hanging in back have been soaked in soda ash solution, and are drying. Can't put them in the dryer, because they have a chemical residue. However, by pre-soaking them and then drying them, you get much better color penetration, brighter colors, and less white areas. But they are harder to deal with because you have to dry them, and then all folding has to be done with latex/nitrile gloves on.
The putty colored metal cabinet is full (to bursting, almost) with dyeing and fabric painting equipment, chemicals, and other stuff. When I take up a hobby (I started this in June, 2006, and this picture was taken just 3 months later), I really go all out!