Indigo Dyeing

 This piece was made out of calico so I thought it would be thin enough for all the dye to go through but it did not work, only the top layer ended up with dye on it. The top layer created a repeated pattern of square bricks in a pillar format. This repeated would make an interesting pattern but would take time as each piller would have to be dyed seperately.

 I've done this process before but on different material so I expected this outcome. The marks created remind me of bacteria and the inside of a kiwi.

 This piece was created by dipping the shibori set material into the dye and leaving it there for about 2 minutes and then taking it out and leaving it to dry. This technique is called Shibori and is made by wrapping around fabric and pushing it up as tightly as it will go whilst constantly wrapping around string. I love how effective the pattern turns out and how every mark is singular.

This piece was created by folding up a piece of material and applying glass slates on either side, they was held together by a clamp and dipped in the indigo vat. I wanted this piece to create brick like and window shapes and it did, even though the lines weren't as clean cut as I wanted. The reflections make this piece resemble windows even more, they also create there own individual marks.

Suffolk Puffs Hanging

 This piece was largely influenced by one of Susie Macmurray's pieces, in the way the piece hung and the way the seperate shapes hung and held together. My piece is made out of 47 suffolk puffs that were made out of medium calico wide. I chose this material as it natural looking and the colour is neutral.

 If I was to do this again I would rethink how to structure it together so that the piece didn't hang so straight.

Susie Macmurray

 This piece is named 'Echo' and is made out of 10,000 hairnets that contained strands of used violin bow-hair. This piece is site specific as you can see. I like the repetition she has used here and how fragile and delicate each hairnet looks.

This piece is called 'A mixture of Frailites, 2004'. When looking at this piece at first glance I thought it would be made out of delicate fabrics or flowers but once I researched it, it turns out its made out of 1400 household gloves that were turned inside out, it does have an under garment made out of Calico.

Experimenting

 This piece above was created by folding the thin cotton in half and rolling it up, then wrapping elastic bands around. I hoped this experiment would give me a symmetrical pattern and this piece did. It also reminds me of pillars by the way they stand together. What fascinates me about this sample is the change in colour for each pillar, the middle being the lighest and the left hand side one being the darkest.

 This sample was created by rolling the bottom left hand corner to the top right hand corner and then tightening cable ties around it, leaving the same reasonable amount of space inbetween each cable tie. I found that using cable ties gives off a better thickness of line and makes the line more visable.

This sampke was created by folding the thin pink cotton material over 4 times and attaching it altogether with metal paper clips. It isn't the paper clip marks that grab my attention, it's the outline darker areas that reminds me of a window.

Experimenting with elastic bands

 This sample was created by taking a long strip of thick white cotton and rolling it up tight and then wrapping around elastic bands to hold it in place. I made sure that the elastic bands were straight so that the line was thick enough to be seen. The section you can see below is the only part of the material that dyed I think it was because the material was thick and wrapped too tightly. The parts that have been dyes remind me of etchings I've seen on buildings.

 This sample was created by piching up some of the material and tying round elastic bands and repeating this process until there is no more material left. I expected to find white thin lined circles but instaed got this pattern. This pattern immediately made me think of Suffolk puffs but also fruit.

Experimenting with already petterned material dyeing

 This piece of material above was a cut off from an old scarf and the colour I aimed for works really well in conjunction with the silver lining pattern that pre-exists. Even though I like how the material looks it isn't really practical as its flimsy and too light, making it hard for this material to hold a shape.

 I was surprised this material dyed because I didn't do a burn test and the material looked slightly glossy so I thought the dye would run off but it didn't. This material clearly shows the element of repetition and would be a nice material to work with because it holds enough strength to fix a poistion aswell as being flexible.

 This patterned material definately had repeat in it but using this material would be difficlut because it looks too busy and confusing. It definately would not hold a shape because it's too light.

Now this material is definately confusing but it works for me more than the other because of the dye colour.

 As my workshop was Dye, we had a full day where we was shown the process of dying a piece of material and the method in whcih we would use to dye what we wanted. I found this process confusing and long at the beginning but once i had dyed a few times it became easier somehow. Above are different types of thread that was dyed in the same vat but came out different shades of grape/purple, this is due to the different types of material, the material that soaked up water easier look darker than the ones that only took in a small amount of dye.

 The laced ribbon above couldn't be dyed because its polyester (TC) therefore the burn test proved that this material couldn't be dyed using direct dye but I tried it anyway. The colour changed sightly but the colour wasn't as bright as the one below.

 This piece of material is Muslin Cotton and is really good to use for dyeing. I like using the material because its flexible, making it appliable to anything.

This was my first attempt at tie-dyeing, I simply just wrapped around string holding the material in place creating this repetitional line. This sample reminds me of the heart beat shape you would see on a heart monitor.