Learn a fun new technique called rust dyeing fabric that uses vinegar soaked fabric and old rusted metal to create gorgeous pieces of dyed fabric.
Rust dyeing again.
Rusty metal creates a wonderful pattern on fabric, learn how to dye fabric with rust. Vinegar helps the patterns develop to form rust dyed fabric.
Sandy Pratt and Libby Barringer refer to their rust dyeing as their “weird obsession.” While perhaps not your typical fabric patterning technique, it’s easy to see how it could turn into a passion. You’ll be able to see samples yourself at the Martha’s Vineyard Mini Maker Faire on May 11. It all started just about …
Very less do we know that we can create textures and pattern with the things easily available at home. Here are few interesting ideas to try with fabric dying..
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I have a fascination with the shapes and textures I see in rural barns and outbuildings. While planning a fabric piece called "Mended Barns" (more about this in another post) I started researching how I might capture the distinctive rusty patterns that develop in steel roofs and siding. There are numerous online resources on rust dyeing, but I found Kimberley Baxter Packwood's website and e-book most informative. The move from rail to road transportation has meant the demise of the railroad. Many have been converted to walking and biking trails. Over the years I've walked a rail trail near my home, every time finding some rusted treasure: bolts and spikes and all kinds of metal objects that held the rail lines together. I have a big bucket of lovely rusty objects. I must have known that I'd find a use for them one day. Canyon Study, 2009 My first experiments didn't generate anything that I'd use with "Mended Barns" but my results brought another one of my recurring themes to mind: petroglyphs, pictographs and ancient places of power. Here are two of my 2009 collagraph prints made after a memorable trip to the Grand Canyon: Shamans' Gallery, 2009 And here are the first rust dyed, stitched and encaustic pieces: Rust dyed cotton muslin "Cedar Breaks" Hand stitched and encaustic on hardboard substrate Rust dyed cotton muslin, partially stitched "Spirit Boat" Hand stitched and encaustic on hardboard substrate This may be the start of a series!
We are all familiar with rust, and usually find it a nuisance that we have to either get rid of or avoid. Did you know, however, that the natural property of rust to permanently colour ...
Rust Dyeing
DIY Iron Mordant Recipe for Natural Dyeing and Eco Printing. Learn how to make an Iron and Copper Mordant for Plant Dyeing and Eco Dyeing.
Rust dyeing again.
Free hand embroidery, occasional hat Free hand embroidery hat, occasional wear with bird patterns on surface Occasional hat, bird patterns Free hand ebroidery stitch work with imbedded pieces of …
DIY Iron Mordant Recipe for Natural Dyeing and Eco Printing. Learn how to make an Iron and Copper Mordant for Plant Dyeing and Eco Dyeing.
I have been experimenting with combining a shibori technique and the Rust-Tex Trees Technique. Shibori is a Japanese word for shaped resists. The particular technique I have been playing around with is a pole wrap. You wrap a string around a fabric that is wound around a pole, trying to keep the spacing of the string as even as possible. As the string reaches the bottom of the pole you push the fabric toward the top of the pole so you have more space to continue wrapping the string. After the fabric is all smooched up you dye it either by submerging it in a dye bath or by painting dye on it. Because I am a rust dyer I put a layer of steel wool under a silk satin scarf and used copper wire instead of string. Here is what it looked like after the wrapping was done. When it looked like the picture below I knew it was time to unwrap it. I set it in a pan of vinegar so the edges remained white. And here is the finished result. Detail to show patterning
Dyeing your own fabrics with natures leaves and flowers using a rust water mordant that you make yourself! Create beautiful individual pieces of arty fabric.
I have been experimenting with combining a shibori technique and the Rust-Tex Trees Technique. Shibori is a Japanese word for shaped resists. The particular technique I have been playing around with is a pole wrap. You wrap a string around a fabric that is wound around a pole, trying to keep the spacing of the string as even as possible. As the string reaches the bottom of the pole you push the fabric toward the top of the pole so you have more space to continue wrapping the string. After the fabric is all smooched up you dye it either by submerging it in a dye bath or by painting dye on it. Because I am a rust dyer I put a layer of steel wool under a silk satin scarf and used copper wire instead of string. Here is what it looked like after the wrapping was done. When it looked like the picture below I knew it was time to unwrap it. I set it in a pan of vinegar so the edges remained white. And here is the finished result. Detail to show patterning
This blog captures my journey into experimenting with textiles and paint and machine stitches.
Nearly two years ago, I made a post about rust dyeing paper using watered down vinegar. It was my first time trying rust dyeing and I was re...
[responsivevoice_button] The live round of the Iso Dye Club has come to an end, although new students are still welcome to join and will be able to work through the ecourse at their own pace. It ha…
