After 6 months of prep work, I gave my Woven Shibori program yesterday. I was a little worried that the way I learned might not be how the "books" say to do it. But I gave it my best shot. My way works for me and I guess that is all I can hope for. I try to put on more warp than my project requires, then I work some 'woven shibori magic' on it.
A friend sewed together my fabric Shibori 'samples' into a blouse. I call it "My Blouse Of Many Samples". Thank you friend! For you see, I can make the cloth, I just can't sew the cloth into anything!!!
Here are a few of the samples I showed and discussed with the guild.
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These two are kitchen towels.Showing your resist threads do not always have to go from selvage to selvage. |
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This is a few scarves with some smaller samples. Some times the warp or weft can be 'a color' and not just white (red sample). |
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More scarves and small samples. Sometimes you can use a rubber stamp to get the look you want. |
I find that the weaving isn't as challenging as the dying. The weaving was pretty simple- in I would do some plain weave rows with a resist rows between. But the playing around with the color and then when opening the fabric...... now that was exciting! Deciding if I want to use more than one color, which sides get which color, questions like that. And I found that if I didn't like the result, I could over-dye it or stamp on it, or even put some more resist threads using a needle and thread and dye some more....... This is not a subject I will abandon. I see lots more Woven Shibori in my future.
2 comments:
These are amazing!
Thank You!!
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