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Unlike most of my posts, the following description is somewhat technical and suited to someone who has some experience in dyeing fabric.
My first 6 pieces are washed after a few weeks of being away from the dye studio. This time instead of using the thickened fibre reactive dyes, I painted these soda-soaked cotton pieces with liquid dyes that I premixed into concentrates. I lightened or mixed the concentrates as required. After painting, the pieces were batched to cure.
Normally when using thickened dyes I would next rinse the pieces. Rather this time as there was no alginate (dye thickener) to act as a resist, I repainted details on top using thickened dyes with some soda ash (activator) added to the dye. Some of the details were added using thickened dyes in a bottle with a nib and additional darks were added in thickened dyes by painting with a brush. Again the pieces were placed in plastic (batching) to cure. Here are two of the rinsed results.
2 comments:
The technicalities may be beyond me, Eileen, but the results certainly are glorious. I especially like the floral one, and salute you for that!
I agree! Painted Cotton pulled me in immediately! Very pretty!
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