This chapter was great fun! I haven't done any tie-dyeing since I was at school. I researched on the internet to find a variety of ways of folding fabrics to get interesting results. It's certainly something I will do again, hopefully with a few more colours next time! The first batch I produced were not very dark so I increased the concentration of dye and got better results. I have been using my paler fabric in the following chapters and am saving my better ones for my 3D piece.
I made up some boards to group my photos, drawings, patterned papers and fabrics together, to get a feeling of the essence of the design.
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| Armadillo |
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| Chameleon |
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| Turkey |
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| Zebra |
Below are the results of my tie-dyeing.
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| Printing onto fabric |
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| Fabric dyed with black ink |
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| Fabric dyed plain black, folded and dabbed with bleach along edges |
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| Printed fabric using template |
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| Printed fabric using template |
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| Printed fabric using sequin waste and finger! |
SKETCH BOOK
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| Scanned copies of fabric, colour appears blue/green, due to scanning |
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| Scanned copies |
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| Scanned copies |
