Today I am thinking about color and our instinctive approach to it. How to look at it with less obvious visual choice attached to it. The sense of the choice.
And then.
A journey into color
- 1- Somewhere
- 2- redefining Rainbow
- 3- color and color
- 4- Color range
- 5- Color Sense
- 6- Overdyeing
- 7- Spectrum
- 8-Blue
- 9- Yellow Earth
- 10 - My spectrum plan
- 11- Focus as a compositional tool
- 12- Eco overprint
- 13- Little bits of color
- 14- Little colored corners
- 15- Little colored corners continued
- 16- Color and story
- 17- Coloring components
- 18- Resist over patchwork
- 19- Black and blackened
- 20- Color and mood
- 21- Continung
- 22- Halloween Storming
- 23- Taking color away
color in motion
6- Overdyeing
above: lots of pinks I didn't like stitched together and left in the walnut vat for a few days.
Dyeing is , of course, a way to color cloth.
Some thoughts then.
From Boro2:
Dyeing is an interesting craft. And obviously another way to embellish and personalize cloth. I think that I would not be the one to teach a lot of the dyeing techniques I have learned from others. I would rather direct you to the source and give credit where it is due. There are many dyers out there, doing great work. My inspiration and knowledge has come from a few simple sources. Mainly Glennis Dolce and India Flint. And as it applies to Boro, I feel dyeing should be linked to lifestyle and making do with what you have, so I stick with that now.
So my story with dye now includes indigo. I do have a permanent fermentation vat that I started when taking Glennis's class. I think what I like about it, is its story, how it preserves the life of a cloth, the way it dyes and more than that, I like that I can grow it and dye just enough. What I need.
Beyond that I like to stick with easy natural dyes, those being the ones that require no real mordant, that suit my simple needs. Most commonly I use black walnut and oak, which grow here, the skins from onions and pomegranates which I buy from the market anyway, to eat, and woad and madder, which I am growing, but still haven't had much success with. Combined with tea, tin cans, and the metals of my dyeing pots which are copper and iron , I get all kinds of cool results. Of course if you already have dyes around, you might use them up.
New thoughts...
Dyeing is not for everyone obviously. I have placed a link to a Resource page on the Diaries main page. I am in the process of updating this page with some new stuff to add. I will add as I go along here as it applies. Included will be some of my own dyed cloth and scraps once I get myself together.
I will be talking about my own personal experiences with dye in more detail as I go along considering color.
- This class is now part of my Feel Free open teaching project. Feel Free to pay what you can (or not) using the donate button. Thanks for being here in any case. jude
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