The Art of Cloth Dyeing
Whether you seek to create your own fabric, give new life to old items or just play with colors, The Art of Cloth Dyeing is the class for you.
Class Preview
Whether you seek to create your own fabric, give new life to old items or just play with colors, The Art of Cloth Dyeing is the class for you.
Introduction
Meet Jane Dunnewold and find out why cloth dyeing is both thrifty and rewarding.
Working With Dyes
Jane teaches the principles of color mixing and chemistry of fiber-reactive dyes. You’ll learn how to mix and test your dyes and which components are non-negotiable.
All About Fabric
Make the most out of your fabrics by learning how different natural fibers react to dyes and absorb color.
Supplies
Learn about what you need to safely dye fabric at home and prepare for an easy clean up.
Basic Fabric Manipulations
You’ll learn a series of easy fabric manipulation techniques: pleating, folding, rubber bands and so on.
Mixing Dyes
Learn the correct proportions of dye, water, soda ash and salt. You’ll never waste dye or time after mastering these techniques.
Color Contact
Learn about batching, the science of calculating how much time to allow for dyes to fully react and be absorbed into the fabric.
The Washout
Jane shares the secret for fast and easy washout. Open up your bundles and see what your dye job created!
Advanced Fabric Manipulations
Explore trickier fabric manipulations or resist techniques, including wood shapes, plexiglass pipe and bubble wrap. Jane shows some tricks for working with larger pieces.
Themes & Variations
We’ll play with dye in this lesson: stacking color, pouring color, and the challenges of upcycling materials of unknown fiber content.
Overdyeing
Learn how overdyeing works, the concept of saturation in fabric dyeing, and how to evaluate whether an extra dye bath will work and how to choose colors and techniques.
Using Your Dyeing Skills
Explore lots of ways to use your new dye skills on new and existing garments, home decor, repurposed clothing, appropriated materials and many other cool things.
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