Dyeing Workshop

On 12th Nov, Jan hosted a workshop showing how to dye cloth in a variety of ways, such as tie dying, using creases to alter the results of dyes and wax resist dyeing.
The tie dying I found was quite simple and interesting, by holding a piece of clothin the centre (or even pieces of clothing) and twisting it to form a tight swirl and then dropping dye onto the swirl via a pipette, the result shows how the dye was effected due to the swirl when un-ravelled. Another method was by scrunching the cloth, holding it in a position via string and then applying the dye, or my personal favourite which is wax resist, which is melting wax into the cloth so the cloth appears wet in that area, this wY you know it's gone all the way through, otherwise it simply sits ontop of the cloth and applied dye bleeds from the surrounding area and underneath the wax. But after applying the wax, I dyed the cloth and the waxed areas were left un-touched. I then proceeded to remove the wax by ironing the cloth between two pieces of thin paper until all the wax felt like it had left the cloth, I then dyed my cloth another colour (in my case red as you can see) and the negative areas are then filled in with the second dye. My method of dying was slightly different as I wanted my primary dye to be combined with the secondary dye to make it darker, if I'd of wanted the two dyes completely separate, I would of had to put wax surrounding the negative area and apply the second dye with a brush as to avoid the primary dye getting any onto it. Overall I enjoyed the process and the workshop and may use the wax resist method in my future work.