Dyeing with Chantel
May 2, 2007 12:20PM | Filed Under Technique:Dyeing |
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My sister and I spent some time messing up David’s workshop dyeing yesterday. I was keen to try out a bottle of Batik- EZ Resist Medium that I picked up a while ago. Inspired by one of her favourite interactive sites (Create Your Own Snowflake) and demonstrating infinitely more patience than yours truly, Chantel made stencils from freezer paper and applied the medium with a paint brush. Her results had a distinctly oriental feel:
By contrast, I tried stamping the medium with a spiral egg cup shape and various other bits and pieces I found in David’s workshop. As you can see in this green fabric, my results were not no effective. The medium is quite gluggy and applying it with a paint brush seems to be the way to go.
But I was very happy with my bright rainbow and my triad dyeing experiment which takes three primary colours and uses the following dye ratios:
8:1:1
5:4:1 4:1:5
1:8:1 1:5:4 1:1:8
Hi brenda, could you give me abit of info on the triad dyeing technique? I’ve googled it and can’t find anything. Just a few simple bits like what colours you used, did you do low water immersion, that sort of thing. I’ve just started dyeing and love what you’ve done. take care, Kerry.
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