SHIBORI & TIE DYE
Dyeing Basics
 Use good quality dye
 Use soft 100% cotton or linen fabric
 Prewash fabric
 Let dye soak for 24 hours in plastic before unwrapping
 Use a mordant and fixative
Mordants & Fixatives
 Mordant: a substance, typically an inorganic oxide,
that combines with a dye or stain and thereby fixes it in
a material. Can be added to dye, but is better as a
presoak for the fabric.
 Dye Fix: used after dyeing to help link the dye to the
fabric
Classroom Basics
 Dye outside only.
 Use gloves and smocks
 Wrap freshly dyed fabric
 Label fabrics clearly, so you remember which is yours
 Store freshly dyed fabric on the plastic provided
DO NOT DRIP ON THE FLOOR
 Put final fabrics on the rack to dry with newspaper to
catch the drips
 Put you gloves and plastic in the garbage
 Clean your clamps and put them back in the bucket
Shibori
 Shibori is the Japanese term
(from the word ‘to squeeze or wring’)
 It is a bit like tie dye,
but more precise and geometric.
 It is usually done with a single indigo(blue) dyebath
 It uses a variety of resist techniques which prevent the dye from
reaching certain parts of the fabric. The original fabric colour
remains in resist areas.
 Tyeing
 Pleating
 Clamping
 Sewing
 These fabrics have been
sewn and tied.
3 things to remember:
Thing 1
 The resist must be as tight as
you can make it.
It needs to be tight enough to prevent
water and dye from traveling along the cloth
Thing 2
 The dye does not
penetrate to the middle of
the fabric if you are working
with many layers of fabric
Thing 3
 Fabric should be wet or soaked
in plain water after it is tied and
before it is dyed.
SEWING
pleating/folding & sewing
Any shape you can sew, you can
pull in to a resist
TYEING
materials
TYEING WITH A STICK
CLAMPING
 http://honestlywtf.com/diy/shibori-diy/
FOLDING
ORIGAMI
 The key to an interesting
design is precise geometric
folding and tight resist.
You must do one clamped shibori for
class.
Good luck
TIE DYE
 Tie-dye is a modern term coined in the mid-1960s in
the United States for a set of ancient resist-dyeing
techniques, and for the products of these processes.
 In the 1960s, tie-dye was brought to America through
the hippie movement, a youth movement that advocated
the sexual revolution, psychedelic rock and protested
the Vietnam War. Hippies wanted a way to escape from
the strict social norm of the 50s, and tie-dye was just
one way of expressing their free-spirited nature.
 Before tie-dye became popular, the Rit Dye company
was struggling. A company representative got two
retired artists to create tie-dye pieces to show to
designers and fashion editors and it was suddenly a hit.
 After clothing designer Halston started using tie-dye in
his designs, stars such as Janis Joplin were wearing it.
Soon enough, tie-dye became a bandwagon the entire
youth generation jumped on.
Stripes
 scrunch fabric vertically.
 Wrap rubber bands around the laces you want stripes.
You will need two rubber bands for each stripe.
Bull's Eye
 Place fabric on a flat surface.
 Pinch and lift the center of your bull’s eye.
 Place rubber bands along the section you lifted. The
number of rubber bands you use depends on how many
sections you want in your bull's eye.
Spiral
Tye Dye
 You need to produce a spiral and one tie dye of choice.
 I will demonstrate additional folds for you to chose from