I spent the weekend down in Cork at the
Cork Textile Network's 2013 Conference - which was great fun. The lectures were really interesting; there was lectures from Freddy Robins, Liz Nilsson and Debbie Symth.
As part of the conference I did an Indigo Dyeing workshop with
Liz Nilsson. Always wanted to do indigo dyeing, even have a kit for it (but have never got around to using it). So this was the perfect opportunity to try out indigo dyeing.
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| Some of Liz' lovely indigo dyed fabrics |
The first part of the workshop dealt with setting up the indigo baths, measuring how chemicals and how to fold, clamp fabrics etc.
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| Indigo vats |
You could try out endless ways of folding material and clamping. Different pegs also gave different resist effects.
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| Add a clamped piece of fabric into the indigo vat |
On the 2nd day we got to dye fabric and add printing and stamping if you wanted. I didn't bother doing any printing at this stage, just kept on with the fabric dyeing.
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| Some of the dyed fabrics from the workshop |
I got loads of fabrics dyed at the workshop, so now need to get cracking on making an indigo quilt. Think an indigo and rusted fabric quilt could be quite nice!
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| Some of my dyed fabrics from the workshop |
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