Shibori Style Painting

On the retreat with my friends, we also wanted to try painting some fabric in a shibori style.

See our stack of pvc? Lots of sizes.

 This is what Judy painted. It is fabric that had already been dyed with tea and rust.  She wrapped the 3" diameter pvc pole loosely with string. Getting the right tension of the string takes some practice.

 One end was taped and the string was taped to the fabric.  Then the wrapped fabric was carefully pushed to one end of the pole.  If you want to see the finished piece after Judy painted it, visit her blog "Windy Hill Happenings".  The link is on the right-hand side of my blog.

 This is a piece of wool that Mary had ice dyed the day before.  She was very happy with the result and wanted to paint it.

Mary taped the edges of the wool together and did not use string.  She just pushed the fabric to one end of the pole.  To see Mary's piece after painting, visit her blog, "The Inside Stori".  The link is also on the left side under blog lists.

Here are Mary and Judy painting their fabric.  We used fabric paints and inexpensive sponge brushes.  We painted on the ridges. Notice the one in front.  Mary used rubber bands to wrap her fabric instead of string.  Of the 3 methods of wrapping we tried, we thought that was the easiest.

This is a piece I had marbled and decided to marble again. It still needed more complexity, so I decided to paint it in this shibori stlye. I wrapped it with string. Here it is after I painted it and it is drying.

I am happy with it after the painting.

 This is another fabric I had painted about 10 years ago.

 It is wrapped in rubber bands.

 Then I painted it with the paint that was left on people's pallettes. It was a nice green shade.

This is the result.  I was pleased.