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Indigo dyeing

August 31, 2012 by Lin Kerr Leave a Comment

All this stuff about the cardboard rolls reminded me of when I did indigo dyeing.Indigo dyeing is a kind of reverse process to the usual dyeing techniques because the fabric is dipped into a pale lemony green liquid very briefly then taken out. As it oxidises it turns a deep indigo blue and to control the shade of blue it should be plunged into water to stop the oxidisation.Anyway in this Shibori dyeing (a sort of tie-dyeing) fabric is folded into a long strip, then wrapped diagonally around a … [Read more...]

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