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osodecanelaSeveral folks have asked me to post some pictures of the tiedye projects from last weekend.
Tom and I love overdying, especially with black. This scrub shirt, done about 18 months ago, is a classic overdye on a rainbow spiral. Shirt is PFD from Dharma Trading; the dyes, as always are Procion, and were applied to wet fabric. This shot was taken at the San Diego Zoo.
I love an earthtone color palate for clothing I plan to wear myself. I did a number of muscle tees last weekend for knocking around and to wear to the gym. This one is in kilt green with a chevron pattern in complementary earth tones. The dyes were applied here to pre-soaked, dried fabric. After dye application, the shirt was wrapped in plastic and cooked in a microwave for 5 minutes.
Mandala patterns have eluded us until this past weekend. The key I think, is to put the dyes onto pre-soaked, dry fabric. Dye just moves differently on dry vs. wet cloth. This pattern was an 8 fold star, that was then tied with artificial sinew prior to dye application. Like the shirt above, it was then microwaved for 5 minutes on high, for a rapid color set.
Playing with colored fabric can also be fun for these projects. This T was grey to start with. I drew this waterfall pattern in washable marker before folding and tieing with sinew. The marker lines make even folding a piece of cake! This also was on to dry pre-soaked fabric. The areas I wanted dye-free, were put into plastic after the project was tied, but before dye application. Grey fabrics I tend to do in blues and jewel tones, while tans generally get earthtones. These are some of the new colors Dharma is carrying, incidentally. The colors at the bottom of the waterfall are oxblood red and imperial purple. There's also a stripe of better black overlayed centrally on each of the colors.
Black is a interesting color to work with, and at times a frustrating one. I prefer to work with Better Black; unfortunately all procion Blacks are finicky dyes. You're never sure how well they're going to take. Sometimes it will hold heavy and true and an overdye will look like stained glass. Other times, it only darkens and 'saddens' the underlying colors. This dress, a rayon PFD sheath, I did for Mama (of Mama's Family) for her birthday last summer. I used the leather pride flag as inspiration. Rayon, as a cellulose-based fiber, is a joy to dye; I think it dyes more evenly than cotton. This dress, originally white, had the designs sketched in in washable marker, then tied in sinew before dye application. After the heart and chevron colors were applied, they were wrapped in plastic before the black went on. The dyes were applied to wet fabric and then the project microwaved for 4 minutes.
Tom and I love overdying, especially with black. This scrub shirt, done about 18 months ago, is a classic overdye on a rainbow spiral. Shirt is PFD from Dharma Trading; the dyes, as always are Procion, and were applied to wet fabric. This shot was taken at the San Diego Zoo.
I love an earthtone color palate for clothing I plan to wear myself. I did a number of muscle tees last weekend for knocking around and to wear to the gym. This one is in kilt green with a chevron pattern in complementary earth tones. The dyes were applied here to pre-soaked, dried fabric. After dye application, the shirt was wrapped in plastic and cooked in a microwave for 5 minutes.
Mandala patterns have eluded us until this past weekend. The key I think, is to put the dyes onto pre-soaked, dry fabric. Dye just moves differently on dry vs. wet cloth. This pattern was an 8 fold star, that was then tied with artificial sinew prior to dye application. Like the shirt above, it was then microwaved for 5 minutes on high, for a rapid color set.
Playing with colored fabric can also be fun for these projects. This T was grey to start with. I drew this waterfall pattern in washable marker before folding and tieing with sinew. The marker lines make even folding a piece of cake! This also was on to dry pre-soaked fabric. The areas I wanted dye-free, were put into plastic after the project was tied, but before dye application. Grey fabrics I tend to do in blues and jewel tones, while tans generally get earthtones. These are some of the new colors Dharma is carrying, incidentally. The colors at the bottom of the waterfall are oxblood red and imperial purple. There's also a stripe of better black overlayed centrally on each of the colors.
Black is a interesting color to work with, and at times a frustrating one. I prefer to work with Better Black; unfortunately all procion Blacks are finicky dyes. You're never sure how well they're going to take. Sometimes it will hold heavy and true and an overdye will look like stained glass. Other times, it only darkens and 'saddens' the underlying colors. This dress, a rayon PFD sheath, I did for Mama (of Mama's Family) for her birthday last summer. I used the leather pride flag as inspiration. Rayon, as a cellulose-based fiber, is a joy to dye; I think it dyes more evenly than cotton. This dress, originally white, had the designs sketched in in washable marker, then tied in sinew before dye application. After the heart and chevron colors were applied, they were wrapped in plastic before the black went on. The dyes were applied to wet fabric and then the project microwaved for 4 minutes.
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Date: 2008-05-24 02:57 am (UTC)if i sent you some shirts could you dye them for me?
just wondering
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Date: 2008-05-24 10:38 pm (UTC)I'd be happy to dye one for you when next we do a dye day. We'll likely do another before the fall.
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Date: 2008-05-24 10:42 pm (UTC)Thanks for the complement, by the way.
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Date: 2008-05-27 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-12 04:54 am (UTC)I should send you a couple shirts to dye.