FAE February

Colorhue can:

• Be utilized for such coloring processes as salting, marbling, air brushing, resist, etc., keeping the slower spreading tendency of Colorhue, in mind.
• Quickly seeks any type of fabric crease, therefore and excellent candidate for scrunching, pleating, tucking, folding, gathering or shirring.
• Provides any color desired due to the ease of mixing the dye colors.
• Excellent recycling agent, over dyes other silks, easily and efficiently.
• Can be applied to already constructed silk garment or sewn items: considering interfacing, sewing thread type and trims.
• Be used over previously Procion dyed silks.

A. DIRECT PAINTING
Instructions:

1. With chalk pencil draw trace or draw your design onto silk.
2. Pin silk taut to painting frame, or iron on to freezer paper.
3. Paint on or pour the resist into the applicator bottle, replace the plastic insert and screw on the metal tip. In the resist technique, the gutta/water-based resist lines are drawn on and the dyes are applied within these lines. When painted on, the dyes will flow and spread on the silk until it reaches the resist lines. The resist acts as a boundary between colors much like lead in a stained glass window. These islands of color can be blended, highlighted or accented with other colors. Draw your design lines in with the gutta/water-based resist.
4. Once you’ve completed the design, carefully examine the lines. Make sure the resist has penetrated through to the back. Go back and fill in any gaps. Let the resist dry completely, usually 30 minutes. Use a hair dryer to speed drying time.
5. Paint and have fun, remember to keep your brush clean !
6. Try dry brush and wet in wet techniques
7. When your design is finished and dry, remove from frame

Silk Painting Gallery

RESIST STAMPING- Gutta

1. Use a previously dyed silk pieces and apply washable gutta through stencil or on stamp , to preserve the original colour before continue to build dye layers. Wash out when complete.

B. LOW WATER IMMERSION DYEING (Color by Accident: Low-Water Immersion Dyeing by Ann Johnston)

STUFFING

1. Scrunch and stuff your fabric into the smallest possible container and cover with dye.
2. One Colour ,Low water immersion dying, compression resist
3. Multi colour low water immersion dying .

SHIBORI (Tie Dye)

Shibori: The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing. Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, Mary Kellogg Rice and Jane Barton. Tokyo, 1983.

Resist designs in textiles by shaping and then securing cloth in various ways before dyeing. Japanese textile artisans have devised techniques that involve first shaping the cloth by plucking, pinching, twisting, stitching, folding, pleating, and wrapping it, and then securing the shapes thus made by binding, looping, knotting and clamping. This entire family of techniques is called shibori.

SCRUNCHING PINCH SCRUNCH

1. Starting at the center of the fabric pinch small (½’’) folds in a random fashion.
2. Keep scrunching until the fabric is a mass of folds Keep them small and tight for the most interesting result.
3. Slide the thread under the fabric and tie across the center, leaving an extra ‘tail’ for tying off at the end.
4. Rotate and tie across the center again at a 90 degree angle to the first (like tying a package).Continue tying the bundle by pulling the thread across the top, placing it about 1’’ from the previous tie, sliding underneath the bundle and coming up the other side, pulling snug as you go.
5. Tie off with the ‘tail’ left at the beginning. Don’t worry if your tying is a bit random, the most important thing is to catch up all the edges and to keep the scrunching held tightly in place, the cool little “spider webs” of color come from the dye creeping into the tight areas.
6. Low immersion dye OR dribble or paint with dyes .

FOLDING

1. Take a corner or edge by pinching about ¼ -½’’ of fabric between your thumbs and forefingers.
2. Continue pinching pleats, moving across the fabric
3. Tie by wrapping the thread around again (in the same place) and pull snug---the tighter you pull, the more dye will be resisted in that line. Move about ¼-1/2 ’’ toward the bottom of the cloth roll and begin the next wrap, gently on the first round to get the string in place and then tighter. Continue in this fashion you reach the end of the fabric roll and tie off.
4. Low immersion dye OR dribble or painting with dyes (dilute- you can always get darker).

Learn Folding Techniques for Tie Dye

How to Tie-Dye

Sibori Pleating and Dyeing

Experience the Art of Japanese Tie-Dyeing in Kyoto

Print Your Own Fabric: Shibori!

STITCHED

1. Draw lines first or free form basting stitch with fine cotton or poly thread..
2. Remove the needle and pull strings at each end to gather.
3. Wrap the ends once or twice around the lines of stitching (now gathered up tightly) and tie.

OR

1. The fold the fabric in half, smooth out wrinkles, draw one half of the design on the center fold of the fabric, baste through both layers and tie as above. This method will create a symmetrical shape.
   

FOLD and CLAMP

• in various patterns ( squares, triangles) and clamp with clothes pins or
• small vice grips and matching flat shapes ( milk bottle caps)
• around wood sticks or PVC pipe

STAMP (with dye in shaving cream medium)

• Use shaving cream as the dye medium to control spread on wood or lino stamps
• I prefer to carefully ink the stamp- raised surface only trying to avoid the crevasses and then put the stamp on the table, then gently press the silk onto the stamp. Let sit a few minutes to allow the silk to draw the dye out of the foam.
• Alternately you may want to construct a plastic or appliqué sheet covered felt layers pad upon which to place, pin or tape you fabric and then stamp.
• BABY WIPE blotter

Rose stamped silk shirt.

STENCIL

• Use shaving cream as the dye medium to control spread through quilting or other stencils or silk screens.
• Tape down silk to control movement and smudge factor. You may also want to weight down the stencil as you carefully dab and apply the cream mixture.
• Let the shaving cream dye mixture sit a few minutes (I left it overnight on wool felt) to allow the silk to draw the dye out of the foam.

SALT

• I suggest laying out the scarf or fabric, sprinkling with salt and then spraying a dye/water mixture onto the scarf surface.
• Leave several hours for the salt to work its magic. Try different courses of sale, and silk salt for varying effects.

Using Colorhue dyes in conjunction with Lumiere/Neopaque paints

The Colorhue and L/N paints are a perfect compliment to each other and marry very well.

• It is possible to dye white fabrics first, let them completely dry, then apply L/N paints for imaging purposes. When the L/N paints have completely dried to the touch, Colorhue can then over dye (the previous dyes and paints), to achieve wonderful ‘antique’ patinas.
• Or apply the L/N images to the white fabrics first, dry to the touch and then proceed to dye the fabrics.
• The L/ N will cover any of the dyed colors but will accept colors of the Colorhue over dyes, in a transparent manner.

GREAT IMAGE

Lumiere is: a latex, acrylic paint specially formulated with finely ground metallic pigments that give an elegant sheen to surfaces.

Neopaque is: the same paint formula as the Lumiere but offers basic opaque colors without the added metallic.

OPPORTUNITIES in Procion Dyes

Feb 26 a.m. Dyeing in a hurry- full spectrum samples on cotton

Feb 26 afternoon Marbeling

Friday evening Feb 20- Sunday Feb 22, weekend dyeing retreat LEARN IT ALL

Taught by Susan Purney Mark

http://www.satin-moon.com/classes/SatinMoon-Spring09.pdf