I worked on some art today!

July 13, 2008 at 8:59 pm

Dyeing Fabric

Yay, finally some art content for my blog. This weekend I dyed fabric with my best friend from childhood. It was a trick in my new house but we managed to get it to work. I had ordered 200 yards of fabric to dye but it didn’t arrive in time so we only dyed about 60 yards. So I’ll be doing more soon with 200 yards on it’s way.

The PFD (prepared for dye) fabric torn into 1 yard pieces ready for the dye bath:

Prepared for Dye Cotton fabric ready for dyeing

 

There is no where in the house and no basement so dyeing is done outdoors at the new home (isn’t my big crab appletree awesome?):

Tables for dyeing under crab apple tree

 

The dyes are mixed (powder added to urea and water in the water bottles) and we’re ready to begin:

Dyes mixed on table

 

Kelly adding color to her fabric:

Kelly dyeing fabric

 

The dyes are on the fabrics and the table isn’t quite as clean as when we started:

Fabric in dye baths

 

Another cool tree picture - couldn’t resist:

Backyard with fabric dyeing tables under crab apple tree

 

The final results - washed, ironed and ready to make a new textile painting:

Prepared for Dye Cotton fabric ready for dyeing

 

Dyeing Details

A few years back I was on the TV Show Uncommon Threads demonstrating how I dye fabric. In conjunction I did a series of posts with all the details. If you have any questions they are likely answered in the Dyeing Fabric series of posts.

Comments

Thanks to everyone that left comments over the last few months as I sold my old house and moved. I tried to keep up but many times was too busy. I appreciate all of them. Today I feel I’m an artist again and can get back to my "normal" life. At least until the remodel to add on a studio begins.


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