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Tie your twine in a super tight knot. We started at the corner of the fabric, but you can start from anywhere.
Tightly wrap your twine around the draped fabric. The twine is what is creating the resist, so be sure to tie it tightly.
Our fabric got a little wonky, but that's okay! Pre-wet your bundle, then add it to your dye bath.
Voilá! Another beautiful one-of-a-kind silk scarf dyed in our Osage Natural Dye Kit.
Gather your materials
For this exercise, we highly recommend doubling over your thread before stitching; it will make binding off much easier at the end.
Stitch your design using a simple running stitch.
You can play around with the size of your stitches. The stitches on the left are a little bigger and farther apart, and the stitches on the right are smaller and closer together.
Pull your thread super taught. It's the scrunching of the fabric (not the thread) that creates the resist, so it's important that your scrunching and your knot are as tight as possible.
When you have multiple rows of stitches like we do, stitch all of your lines then go through one-by-one and pull them taught. This is way easier than trying to sew scrunched up fabric.
Take the two legs of your thread from each stitch row, and tie them in a tight knot as close to the fabric as possible. If your knot is loose from the fabric, the scrunches and folds will be loose and won't create a crisp design.
This step is why we recommend doubling over your thread - it's easier to tie a tight knot with the two legs.
Pre-wet your bundle, then add it to your dye bath.
Voilá! Another beautiful one-of-a-kind silk scarf dyed in our Cutch Natural Dye Kit. You can see the difference in pattern between the two stitch lengths. The stripe on the left is from our longer, wider stitches, and the stripe on the right is from our smaller, tighter stitches.
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Picking up your fabric from the center, tie a rubber band below the pinch-point.
Keep tying rubber bands below the first one, until you reach your desired goal and/or you run out of fabric to tie.
Pre-wet your bundle, then add it to your dye bath.
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Starting with the twine placed at the bottom of your fabric, tightly roll your fabric around the twine, sort of like you're rolling sushi. In this example, we rolled from the corner, but you can do this from any edge.
Your rolled fabric should look something like this.
Now tightly scrunch the sides of your fabric tube down. Tie and knot the twine to keep it secure. The tighter your roll + scrunch are, the more white space there will be in your final product. For more color, make your rolling and your scrunching a little looser.
Pre-wet your bundle, then add it to your dye bath.
Voilá! Another beautiful one-of-a-kind silk scarf dyed in our Cochineal Natural Dye Kit.
For these examples, we mordanted our silk, then let it dry before doing our designs, but you can apply the shibori before or after mordanting.
Gather your materials
Pinch the center of the silk and rotate the silk in a swirling motion.
Make sure your swirl is secure. The tighter your swirl + binding are, the more white space there will be in your final product. For more color, make your swirl and your binding a little looser.
Tightly secure your swirl with rubber bands, pre-wet your bundle, then add it to your dye bath.
Voilá! Another beautiful one-of-a-kind silk scarf dyed in our Marigold Natural Dye Kit.
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