Today I've been painting with thickened Japanese Black dye (not real indigo, and hopefully not real Japanese Black either, as it's carcinogenic) which gives this lovely faux indigo colour. These designs showed up best after putting a diluted dye wash over the fabric when the hand-painted designs were dry. Because these are just samples, I worked with fat quarter sized pieces of fabric.I also have a beautifully dyed left index finger, where my rubber glove had a hole. Whena girl's got a creative mood on, she's not gonna stop and race to the store for new gloves.
Lovely!
ReplyDeleteI can see you had real fun here. Like the faux indigo.
ReplyDeletelooks like a secret code and indigo is a good colour for secrets :)
ReplyDeletevery lovely you have been busy
ReplyDeleteOoooh, very nice and very Japanese!
ReplyDeleteGreat fabrics including the ones in the previous post.
ReplyDeleteVery nice Shirley. I loved the wicked fabrics too.
ReplyDeleteWOW WOW what great indigo designs and colors.
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