Dyeing

We did some tie dyeing in my evening class. I really didn't enjoy it. It's messy and chemically. And I don't like the results. Reminds me too much of travelling through Guatemala in the 90s and the kinds of clothes the tourists were wearing. I don't like the regularity of the repeating patterns or muddiness of the colours.

Nevertheless here are the results.

Preparation - putting in the resists.

From my sketchbook - the results.

This one I liked - the way the red bleeds into the green rather randomly. I later overprinted it with some screen printing.

This was done by one of my classmates and I really like it because it's mostly the original fabric and the dye is irregular.

I'm not sure that I'll be doing much more dyeing but glad to have had a chance to find out I don't like it.

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