Fiber Design
- Fiber Design -
In my Fiber & Fabric Design course, I learned various techniques working with fibers and fabrics. Using mostly natural materials, I had the opportunity to work with different types of dyeing and surface design.
Ori-nui Shibori
Dyed with fiber reactive dye on cotton-blend jersey knit
Needle Felting
Carved stamp and stencil painted on fabric
Stencil
Carved stamp
Block repeat
Random repeat
Half drop repeat
Snow Dye
Powdered dye scooped onto snow and left to melt overnight
The result
Nuno Felting
Before nuno felting
After
Marbling
Done with marbling kit on silk scarf
Gutta Resist
Gutta painted onto silk
Negative space is filled in with paint, then gutta is removed once paint has dried
Bundle Dye
Pre-steam
Post-steam
Shibori Techniques
