Tie Dye pics

[dr_tectonic]

As requested by kybearfuzz, pics of the tie dye shirts I mentioned in my previous post. Be sure to click to embiggen!



Long-sleeved green-black:



Muddy green-purple:



Fire (the camera doesn't do it justice):



Tie-dyed silk:



Shibori:



Bonus pics from the day when we were rinsing them out on the grass, featuring some of Jerry's shirts that came out really well:

Comments

[phosfate]

Bitchin'!

[osodecanela]

Do you microwave to set the colors? Are you using pro ion dyes? And what are you using on the silk?

[dr_tectonic]

No microwave, just time. (They all sat overnight.) The dyes are fiber reactive procion from Dharma Trading Company. Well, except the shibori, which is indigo.

We used the same dyes on the silk. The only difference was I prepped it with vinegar instead of soda ash. I think maybe that was the wrong move, and that's why it took so many rinses to get it to stop bleeding. This is the best page I've found about the topic: http://www.pburch.net/dyeing/FAQ/silk.shtml

[osodecanela]

For vegetable fibers, Procion rocks. I’ve found on animal fibers you get all kinds of color shifts. After a tie dye party with friends, we had a mess of left over dyes. I had almost a pound of white woolen homespun yarn that I decided to experiment on. The mega hank got dipped into the soda ash solution, put into an enameled turkey roaster and the dye was applied in stripes across. Then it sat overnight in the oven with heat from just the pilot flame. The results were unexpectedly pastel and rusts faded to golds, deep blues shifted to mauve and lilac, forest green went to chartreuse.

Love shopping from Dharma. The know what they’re doing. Incidentally, while it’s not typical for what they carry, it’s where I got my current spinning wheel.

That shibori piece is gorgeous. If it disappears, check my closet.

[dr_tectonic]

Thanks!