barny

Thank you.

Shibori is a technique where you resist dye fabric with pressure. There's a kind called arashi where you wrap folded cloth around a pole and then wrap twine around that and scrunch it together, then paint dye aste on it or dip it into a dyebath. The dye stays on the surface, but can't seep into the lower/ scrunched levels. Another kind uses stitching to resist the dye. You embroider the cloth with particular stitches and then pull them tight to resist the dye. A third kind uses pressure from clamps to do the job. You fold the cloth into different patterns, then clamp it (with different shaped objects holding it in place for different designs). The objects holing it and the layers both resist the dye, so you end up with lovely, ever-changing patterns (which sounds contradictory unless you see it, then you'll know what I mean).

Glad you're feeling better!