I recently spent a very enjoyable Saturday at Craftschooloz learning the Japanese dyeing technique Shibori. This involves folding, twisting or bunching cloth and binding it, then dyeing it in beautiful indigo.

 

I wanted to see what effect the indigo dye would have on some of my previously rust dyed, lace and doily’s

 

 

So, I clamped several wooden shapes over the areas where I didn’t want the indigo dye to seep in

 

 

I was very happy with the result

 

 

Old tablecloth, cotton fabrics and string

 

 

Some beautiful dyed cloth from other people at the workshop

 

 

This vintage tablecloth was clamped with shapes. The cloth had been previously dyed with rust and tea

 

 

The Shibori method worked extremely well with all my pieces of vintage French lace, cotton, string and doily’s

 

 

I love how indigo has many shades of greys, as well as blue, depending on what stage of fermentation, the dye vat is at

 

 

Playing with some ideas…Victorian silk buttons

 

 

buckles and rusty bits

 

tin

 

and doily’s