Infinity and Beyond

Tomi shared her woven shibori infinity scarf.

According to "Woven Shibori" by Catharine Ellis woven shibori is a weaving and dying resist technique. You place a resist pattern thread at regular intervals on a ground cloth (usually plain weave). After the cloth is taken off the loom, resist threads are pulled, dye is applied. After after cloth is dry, the resist threads are removed and thrown away. Your cloth is basically what you wove as your ground cloth but the pattern is what you resist/dye accomplished.

 

Indigo Dyed Woven Shibori Towel

Woven Shibori

If you will look back to my March 26, 2016 post you will see I was working on weaving with a white warp, a colored weft, and using a single dye color. Here is the finished towel. It has just taken me a little time to get it washed, hemmed and pressed.

My dye was an indigo vat. The indigo is more muted than I envisioned. Not really the red-white-blue I was wanting, but very acceptable.

This is the back side.  

Woven Shibori Show and Tell part 3

Here is the rest of our show and tell from the dye workshop we held in June. Gosh, I was really impressed with the textiles and color ways. I think I have given some of them a bite to continue weaving more using the Woven Shibori technique.

Marilynn dyed some warp chains.

Scarves woven by Marilynn. She had twill as her base cloth. Click and enlarge to see detail. Awesome!

Tomi had woven towels. Great color combinations. 

Tomi also dyed silk scarves.

This is from Tomi. I just love the soft look of this. 

Tomi and her scarf.

I am pretty sure that Marty did this.

Marty didn't want to take out the pleats so this is her 'crimp cloth'. 

Marty and her yardage she is planning on turning into a shawl. 

Rossanna not only wove and dyed this great scarf, she then used her braiding technique  Kumihimo to make a necklace to match!!!!

Rossanna dyed some warp chains too.

Rossanna is show her 'practice' piece. We all love the look of the indigo pot.

Two more kimihimo necklaces from Rossanna

Woven Shibori Show and Tell part 2

More wonderful textiles from the Woven Shibori Dye workshop July 2016.

Janice did a shibori wrap on this commercial fabric.

Janice wove this shiboir textile for a garment. 

Janice dyed these T-shirts and will cut them into strips to weave with.

Here Jance dyed some silk hankies.

Kayla had some really great towels. I think I like the one she is holding the best. Or maybe the indigo one..... I love them all!

Kayla's towels!

These are just some of the items that Missy wove.

Woven Shibori Show and Tell part 1

Tuesday was the big reveal from our dye workshop held in June. Our main focus was on dying something we wove using the woven shibori technique. And did we ever have some impressive textiles. We also dyed the usual warp chains and a few other items. Here is a look at some of the fun!

Anita painted these rocks for a fun project the town of Bolivar, MO is doing. 

This is my bag of woven shibori. I have posted most of it already.

Anita and the indigo pot!

Carol and her indigo towels.

Jan wove this awesome scarf and dyed it with the woven shibori technique.

Jan's shibori towels.

Carol's towels.

Woven Shibori Towels with Dish Rags

Here are three of my woven Shibori towels with their matching knitted dish rags. I am very pleased with the towels and even the way the dish rags took the dye. The towels are 8/2 cotton warp and weft while the knitted dish rags are "Sugar and Cream" cotton. I had a lot of fun weaving and knitting then dying.

On this dish rag I added an extra 'flower' to help when extra scrubbing is needed!

Woven Shibori Dye Workshop

My once a year dye workshop was great fun! Our focus was on woven shibori, but we had lots of other stuff to dye too. We usually use fiber reactive dyes but this year we added an indigo pot. We were dying woven shibori, t-shirts, commercial cloth, hats, socks, warps.... you name it and we might have put it in the dye pot! Plant fibers from cotton to silk to soy was in the pot or set aside to batch. We will see the finished articles at the next Diva meeting in July. It should be a great show and tell!!

Woven Shibori does a Dance

Ever wonder what it would look like if you wove with color and then dyed with another? Here I have attempted just that. I wanted to see if I wove with a white warp and a colored weft then dyed the pulled shibori cloth I could get something different than the usual look. I was a little surprised I got the green, but should not have been. I think for the 'real' towel I will dye with just the blue. I wove this small sample to play with. But I do have one woven towel in the wings. It is waiting for a dye workshop later this year.

Here I have a white warp and am weaving with red. The purple is the resist threads that I will pull out later and throw away.

I have dyed on one side with yellow. I am going for  red-yellow-blue, or red-white-blue. 

I have pulled my resist threads.

Here I have applied the blue dye.

Well, I did get the red white and blue on the left. But I think I got red-yellow-green on the right because I had not rinsed out all the yellow dye. After all, yellow and blue make GREEN! 

Moral to the story..... just have fun. You never quite know what you will get. That is the beauty of woven shibori. You sort-of know, but not really. If you want a one-of-a-kind cloth than woven shibori is for you.