More Wild Dyery Course results

Since last time I've made a journal out of the indigo shibori dyed fabric.  I attached the pages with some white embroidery floss and did a blanket stitch around the outside with yarn I had dyed in red cactus flowers so generously given to me by my friend Pat.   Here's a photo below:

For another lesson, I've dyed some silk samples with weld (yellow), madder (red) and indigo (blue).  By combining some of the colours you also get orange and purple.  So I had six colours.  Then a sample of each colour was dipped into iron solution to get six more colours.   The top row has the original colours and the bottom row are the same colours dipped in iron solution    Here is the swatch book of samples I made with all twelve colours:

It was a fun exercise and gives me lots to experiment with.  Thanks for stopping by!

Printing last week

We went to the cottage last week and I made some new prints.   The left one below is with a new stamp I made from some packaging material.  The right one is a shibori print made by tying marbles into the fabric and then colouring it.

The weather was perfect so I couldn't resist making some sun prints with the ferns growing there.  These are all about 11 inches square.

This is another sun print in the first stage.  I'm learning to make layered sunprints:)  So after this was done I put the plants back on and painted another layer of textile paint on and put it back in the sun.

Here's the result:

I like the complexity of it and hope to make some more of these.  This one measures 18 X 22 inches.  Here's another layed print:

They're a little more complex than my original prints.  I always like to learn a bit more.  If you're interested in buying any of these prints let me know.  We can arrange that you pay me by e-transfer.  They are on Kona cotton fabric and are perfect for any textile art project.  My email address is connietb@sympatico.ca  Thanks for having a look!