Indigo and rust dyed fabric

Well, what a great ego boost the last blog posting was. Thank you all so much for the lovely comments you have left. No pressure there then *LOL* I will ask young David at work to draw a name tomorrow so if anyone hasn’t put their name down yet then please do, I shall check one last time before he picks a winner. Remember the chemical rust dyeing I did a couple of weeks ago? Well, I decided to put all the pieces of fabric through the washing machine and although they have come out soft and…

Jennifer Coyne Qudeen: #2 Experiment with rust - round 2

Gallery - Workshop: Dyeing and printing with rust

We had many Ah Haaaa moments at the end of the day...so many wonderful techniques to try and so many successes. We always have great fun regardless of the outcome...but even better when we can jump up and down with excitement! First was the Indigo...results are pretty quick as you only leave it in the mixture for a few minutes. Here's the Indigo pot and.. Here's the results...all lined up on the bushes to dry...some beautiful color. Marys on the left was very intense and done on white…

January 12, 2012 Outside the snow is falling and the dye garden is asleep: Inside, the studio consoles. I have a shipment from Maiwa, Vancouver (via Couleurs de Plantes, France): a collection of p…

assorted rusted objects Examples of rust dyeing fabric wrapped around a rusted horseshoe Ingredients: PFD (prepari...

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210615 Rust Indigo and Stitch work (Detail) #morleycollege #jonathandredge #textilefoundation

I've been painting a bit lately. No, no, not with oils or acrylic or watercolors even, rather with a tea/vinegar mixture. Any painters who happen to stumble upon this post are probably thinking that I've gone totally bonkers...and that may just be true. Still... The hard line on the left above resulted from painting a line of tea/vinegar on dry cotton in an attempt to rust a bold line down the piece. The hard line is actually where the mixture/rust bled and was totally unplanned, but very…

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Home with a day off after my stimulating CQ Winter School workshop on rust marks with Alice Fox, I wanted to have a go straight away while it was fresh in my mind. I found a bag with some old tools in the cellar ( mainly some of my Dad's pliers) and some Green Tea bags bought from a herbalist in Iran which I hadn't got round to trying ( good for obesity apparently!) As before I placed some watercolour paper in a tray and placed tools and items either directly onto the paper or wrapped them…

Rust prints and coffee on cotton, linen and silk Rust prints and coffee on cotton, linen and silk Rust prints and coffee on ...

I’ve been taking advantage of the warm spell we’ve been having in Ojai, and doing some fabric rusting. I’ve been in an experimental mood lately, and the rusting I’ve done ha…

Blogger: Kathy Schmidt, Quirks Ltd. I'm sharing info that I just posted on my own blog Quirks Ltd. because it's a fun technique. If you haven't tried it, you may want to, just for fun! Rust dyeing never really appealed to me, but I had to try it simply to be sure that it wasn't

Rust-Tex: Rust Dye Shibori

Rust dyeing again.

This is my gauntlet. I worked it as part of my apprenticeship at the Royal School of Needlework back in 1993, or thereabouts, sometime in my second year. It was one of the last pieces I worked where we could pretty much work whatever we wanted, so I decided on this. I wanted to work something royal, regal, opulent, theatrical, and in red and gold. I made the glove, but not the pattern as it is a specialist craft in itself, I found a pattern I could use, hand stitched it together by hand, and…