My Mood Is Indigo

Indigo-dyed sqaure

It’s summer and the indigo dye pot is alive and well, being fed by various students at the former Textile Arts Centre in Chicago. I can smell the dye pot—it’s a disagreeable odor, one like no other. Not putrid, nor … Read the rest

Dyeing a Woven Shibori Scarf

Finished Textured Stripe Scarf showing different patterns on both sides of the cloth.

Woven shibori is the perfect medium to explore natural dyes, resists, and layering of colors. One doesn’t even have to weave on a loom in order to work with this technique if you are using the woven shibori “blanks” that Read the rest