Had a great time indigo dyeing at Sandra's on Thursday.
It's so exciting to watch the unpromising greeny-yellow colour turn magically to a glorious blue as it hits the air & oxygen floods in.
If you want to have a go Fibrecrafts sell kits.
R: using a plate to catch the dye drips & ensure no oxygenated water gets back into the dyebath.
The yarn/fabric turns blue as the air hits it
R & below: part changed fabric
R: partway
L: fully blue
R: using cling film to bind areas to resist the dye.
L: fabric, the resist patterning was made by bound up chick peas! (dried, not tinned!)
Colours vary a little between fibres, the silks were a cooler, turquoise blue
R & below: bindings removed so the background colour shows through
From 10pm - 11pm GMT Alix will be spinning, high up on the plinth in Trafalgar Square. Below is a link to watch this live and another tells you why she wanted to do it. For those of you who haven’t heard about it, it is a work of public performance art devised by artist Anthony Gormley (best known for his Angel of the North).
To watch live: http://www.oneandother.co.uk/
About what I’m doing: http://www.oneandother.co.uk/participants/Knittabhavana
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