Cloth to Dye For

Last week I facilitated a dye workshop at ArtCloth Studios in San Antonio. It was a whole week devoted to all aspects of working with fiber reactive dyes. We immersed, we painted, we poured, we sprayed, we sprinkled. Participants chose 3-5 colors to work with over the course of the week, some chose by intuition, others by standard relationships on the color wheel. Many decided to use colors outside their normal palette.

In addition to low water immersion, we spent time working with applying dyes directly to the surface of the fabric by sprinkling on dry dye powder...

painting on thickened dyes...

and screenprinting with thickened dyes...

We also explored the use of several resists, including sugar...

and gel glue...

By the end of the week, we had transformed yards of white fabric into beautifully colored and patterned cloth.