Thursday, October 6, 2016

Indigo and Shibori with Jane Calendar

This past weekend we had a world famous textile artist here in Whitehorse for a workshop. We spent two days working on manipulating fabric with various resists then dying in three different types of indigo vats. I love blue, so I was very excited to learn more about how to keep an indigo vat happy. They are notoriously temperamental and the few times I have tried to make one on my own have been very unsuccessful. Now I think I've got the skills to make it work. I came away with numerous samples and pieces of work to turn into new projects. I even dyed blue one of the vintage French linen sheets I got last year on our vide grenier adventures in Montrejeau.

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