Saturday, March 6, 2010

Next Step: Painting with Dyes

There are two ways to color your fabric: Paint the dye on or dip the the fabric in a vat (bucket) of dye.
Today's post features painting on the dye.

Here is the waxed fabric before I start to paint.






I have started to paint with yellow paint that I will mix with some blue to create green.








Adding some green paint now to fill in the leaves.










Now I am painting the back ground with the bright blue paint.










Here is a close up of the finished piece of fabric. After drying for 24 hours I will rinse it out with hot water to remove the soy wax and excess dye.











The finished fabric.

Next post -Vat Dyeing!

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