Diy - Mitt Dyed Shibori Pillows

Hi there! It's Mariah from Everything Golden, hither to part some other DIY pillow project. Last calendar month I shared how to brand landscape pillows printed via Spoonflower. To compliment the landscapes, I've manus dyed some cloth using a relief dye method called Shibori. Here's how you lot produce it...

What you'll need: 1. Any natural cloth such equally cotton, silk, hemp, linen or wool. 2. Fiber Reactive Procion Dye 3. Salt 4. Soda ash 5. Triangle blocks 6. Nails 7. Small rope

I recommend you lot outset past times dying swatches to assistance you lot guide your concluding coloring in addition to technique. It besides helps to accept notes in addition to thus you lot tin replicate your favorite outcomes inward the future.

How to create your dye bath:

Combine 2 tsp dye, 4tbs salt, 2 tsp soda ash in addition to add together a real pocket-size amount of warm H2O in addition to stir until you lot create got a paste. Then add together almost 1 loving cup warm water. Use prophylactic gloves in addition to merely purpose one-time kitchen utensils designated entirely for dying.

Instructions for Triangular Folding:

1. Wash your fabric
2. Fold the length of cloth into 4 in addition to press amongst an iron. Fold dorsum the corner 45 degrees. Spray the cloth in addition to Fe again. Continue folding dorsum in addition to forth concertina-wise until you lot create got a groovy triangular pile of fabric.
3. Cut ii triangles out of wood, almost 4" on each side(this could endure bigger or smaller depending on how large you lot desire your pattern to be.) Then, hammer a boom on each side.
4. Clamp downward your folded cloth past times tightly tying rope around the nails.

5. Dip each side of the triangle into the dye, the deeper you lot dip the smaller the triangle pattern volition be.
6. Undo the clamp, rinse in addition to hang to dry.

Instructions for Spiderweb Binding:
1. Wash your fabric
2. Pinch areas of the cloth in addition to necktie amongst your rope
3. Submerge your cloth inward the dye in addition to allow sit down for a few minutes
4. Remove rope, rinse in addition to hang to dry