Last week Saturday, I helped at a dye workshop held by Marjan (pronounced Marianne) Klupfel. Her supply list said to bring 5 yards of pfd fabric or pre-washed white and 1 yard of pre-washed black fabric. I brought 7 yards and wished I had more.
Her system of dying fabric in plastic bags made for a very easy fabric dying with a lot of results. I made two sets of 6 gradation dying with.
Golden yellow gradation
Brown gradation
These two half yard pieces were either painted on with foam brushes or folded and the dye sprayed on then wrapped in plastic garbage bags overnight.
I used a 4 inch pvc pipe to pole wrap these 3 pieces. Instead of string pole wrapping, I used about 6 rubber bands and squished it onto the pole. Then they were dunked in the soda ash solution for a minute. With a plastic bag protecting the table, I squirted or painted on the dyes.
With my last yard of black fabric, I cut it in half and pole wrapped each one lengthwise and the other width wise using the rubber bands. I used a foam paintbrush to brush the clorox bleach on the black fabric. This was Kona Cotton fabric and the brown color just came out. Others who used Joann Black fabric had a brilliant red color. The pole was then dipped in a bucket of water, then a bucket of water with sodium thioxide and then a bucket of water. Beautiful.
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