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Category Archives: Techniques
Another flour paste technique
In my first experiment with flour paste resist, I spread the paste all over the fabric, and then scraped off a pattern. The hardest part of the process was getting the dried paste off. Logically, therefore, the next thing to … Continue reading
Painting trees with salt
This design combines two techniques, which as you can see from the picture gives some very different results. First, the basic shapes of a tree trunk standing on a hillside was drawn, using wax. Then the whole scarf was painted … Continue reading
First adventures with woad
Well, I’ve finally bitten the bullet. I’ve read dire warnings about the importance of being patient with woad harvesting, because: you need a lot of leaves to get a decent amount of dye, and the chemicals that provide the blue … Continue reading
Solar dyeing again
Well, I bet some of you out there are ahead of me here. About three weeks ago, I started off some solar dyeing. A couple of days later, I noticed that one of the marigold jars was a different colour … Continue reading
Eco printing
Eco printing is a process of wrapping dyestuff in damp mordanted fabric, wrapping it up, and either leaving it to “cure” in a warm dry place, or steaming it to extract and fix the colour. Last year’s attempts gave mixed … Continue reading
A solar surprise
Well, everyone says that the problem with natural dyes is that you cannot repeat colours exactly. With any dyeing process, there is scope for variation due to slight differences in quantities, moisture content etc. With natural dye stuff there will … Continue reading
Solar dyeing
Where is this year going? I have been so busy with my editing work that I haven’t had as much time as I would like for getting on in the studio. One thing I keep reading about on the net … Continue reading
An experiment with flour paste
This experiment is about a very simple concept. If you cover a surface with something impenetrable, like a stencil, and paint over the top, the paint doesn’t get to the whole surface, causing a pattern to form. In this case, … Continue reading
Experiments with cyanotype
The idea of cyanotype is very simple. First soak the fabric in light sensitive chemicals, then dry it in a dark place. If you arrange shapes on the resulting fabric and expose it to daylight, the chemicals react and darken … Continue reading
The Rainbow Angel 