Making your own fabric designs is a lot of fun. Learn how to make batik fabric with washable glue. Included are two free patterns to get you started!
I often want things that don't exist and that is a big motivator in being a crafty gal. If I can't find it, I make it. And when I was envisioning some fabric for pillows that was white, with red poppy-like flowers and couldn't find it, I decided to hand stamp and dye some up for myself! The process is really easy, tons of fun and quite rewarding! For this project you will need: 100% cotton fabric Tulip One Step Tie Dye Tulip Soft Fabric Paint Rubber Stamp(s) Tulip Fabric Brushes Grab your supplies and let's get ready to make some custom fabric! A rubber stamp with a deep pattern works best. Using your brush apply a small amount of paint onto the raised parts. You'll get some elsewhere but do your best to keep things neat. Make sure your worktop is nice and even and then place the stamp directly onto the fabric and push down. Lift the stamp straight up. If you don't your stamp will smudge. And definitely feel free to practice this on scrap before you take on the big show. Your stamp won't be perfect in all places but that lends to the charm of the fabric. The neatest thing about using Tulip paint is that the lines the stamp makes are raised. It feels so neat! Continue stamping in your pattern and occasionally wash your stamp to get rid of any paint that accumulates in the cracks. That paint will start to make your stamps fuzzy looking and the lines less crisp. Until you have your swatch fully covered. Mix your tie dye as you please, or use left over. Start with your first color and paint directly onto the fabric. If you want the colors to really bleed together, move onto the next color before the first dries. If you don't have a color you need, make it! I mixed my yellow and red to make the perfect orange! I wanted my colors to bleed and color "outside of the lines". If you don't you can take some Tacky Glue and go around the outer edge of your stamp where you don't want the dye to go. This will act as a resist and keep the dye within the stamp. The glue will easily wash off in the washing machine when done. Can you tell how the edges of the paint are raised? After washing out my fabric the colors became more faint, but that is the way with dyeing. I only let me fabric sit about 3 hours before washing out, longer would have also added to the darkness of color. For this swatch of fabric, that I envision being a Euro sized pillow, I stamped my pattern and then came along and dyed with a paint brush and mixed colors to the desired look. See how it goes from blue to teal to green to yellow green to yellow to orange to red? I LOVE it! I wanted these to really, really bleed, and in fact I was hoping that the color would spread out beyond the flowers to bleed together and mix but that didn't quite work out. I'm still happy with the results, though! And that is a thing to remember, when working with dye things may not turn out exactly as planned but it's always awesome anyway! And there's my main even again. Isn't it lovely? All in all about half a yard took me around 2 hours to complete, with dry time for the paint included. Placed in front of the TV and a few episodes of The Paradise and time flew by! I hope you liked this tutorial and I also hope to see you over at my blog Dream a Little Bigger. Until next time!
In the last year I have been learning about fabric dyeing and recently have been drooling over shibori dyed fabrics. What is shibori? In a nut shell it is a Japanese way of resist dyeing cloth where you fold, stitch, bind, twist and/or compress a fabric to give it a pattern. I have a whole pinterest board filled with fabrics one prettier than the other. We are staying at my MIL's house while waiting to move into our own home, but I couldn't wait any longer to dip my hands in dye, so I got a piece of 4ft long linen out. I had bought it from Fabric-store.com a couple weeks back to use for either a baby wrap, hand towels or pillow cases and had bought it specifically with shibori dyeing on mind. It's a mid weight linen, so I know that compared to dyeing thin silk fabrics the odds are against me, but wanted to give it a go none the less. The pattern that I have most fancied is a hexagonal snowflake pattern. Sekka Shibori. There are examples one more beautiful than the other online and I'll just post a couple images picked from online so you get an idea. To try to make this I figured out how to break the pattern down and fold it by looking at the repeat. I'll try to draw it to illustrate my thought process: When folding you would fold on the red vertical lines first in an accordion fold. To fold the triangles you can do it two ways to get two effects. One is a square or diamond pattern and the other is a hexagon pattern. Usually this method utilizes thin materials like silk, which makes the folding easier to handle and the dye to take more evenly. I am going to use this fabric for either a baby carrier or other utilitarian items, so my material is a mid weight linen. It was easy to crease when I accordion folded it, but time will tell how the dye job comes out. It might be very uneven because of so many layers of fabric. ***Disclaimer before getting to business - I am not an expert or professional at dyeing, this posting is just giving you the steps that I did based on my research and what worked/was available in my circumstances. Prepping the fabric for dyeing. The linen was store bought new, so I decided to wash it hot once with detergent and Blue Dawn soap. It didn't look that much different, so I decided to wash on hot again with just Blue Dawn. Now I could definitely tell a difference, on just how much lint came off and the feel of the fabric. I had to do a second thorough rinse, with stopping in the middle to fluff it with my hands, to get more lint to come off. Then I dried it on low heat setting for a little bit until it was damp dry and ironed on top of that. Since I had planned a wrap, I cut the fabric in half at this point and hemmed the unfinished long edges. Now I had two 4 yd long pieces to play with. As you know linen wrinkles fast, so by the time I was ready to fold it for dyeing, it was pretty wrinkly already. I first tried folding the strip in half and then again in half length wise, but felt that that would give me too large of a pattern so I decided to go the hard way and start folding on one edge for a smaller width. I took the closest thing available, Ikea catalog cover, and folded a template for myself so I'd know how much to fold over. In the below pictures you can see the first line being folder and creased with fingers. The template is peaking out a little at the bottom of the picture. Here's a closeup of my fancy template. After the first fold, I just carefully kept going with the pleats back and forth... Everything accordion folded: After the whole thing was folded, I pressed it on the floor with an iron. From my template, I ripped a triangle that is even on all four sides and used that to start folding my triangles. I tried to iron in between each layer. The stack thickens really quick. Less than half way through I realized this will not stay together as it gets taller, so I decided to tag the corners together with some contrasting thread (easy to pick off later hopefully). I stopped three times to sew, to keep the pile nice and tidy. Whole 4 yards finished folding. Isn't it pretty! When I plopped it on it's side everything lined up beautifully and the stack was very neat looking. This folding process took several hours to do. So I'd recommend doing it without the kids around. It wasn't a perfect job, but I hope the dye will still look decent on it after all the work. Because this is so picture heavy, I am breaking the dye process into another post. The fabric is sitting with dye as I write, and the second half to this tutorial will follow as soon as I am done rinsing it off. :) I am participating in a link party here.
Jokaisella tekstiili- ja vaatesuunnittelijalla tuntuu olevan aika, jolloin hän hurahtaa japanilaiseen tekstiilitaiteeseen. Kuten Kiinassa, myös Japanissa on tuhansia vuosia vanha tekstiili- ja käsityökulttuuri, josta ammentaa inspiraatiota sadoilla eri tekniikoilla. Minusta tuntuu, että oma japanikauteni on tulossa kovaa vauhtia. Se alkoi vaivihkaa isojen kotitakkien ja boro-kirjontojen fanittamisella ja nyt ollaan siirrytty shiborivärjäykseen. Kuten aina, pinterest on […]
Step by step instructions and suggestions for Batik.
(1)Small collection of black and white patterned fabrics: (2) SHIBORI METHODS USING DYES BEFORE DYEING: A. TRITIK SHIBORI (i) Ori-nui Shibori (running stitched): Running stitch vertically and horizontally to create squares on close woven cotton. (ii) Ori-nui Shibori (running stitched): Running stitch vertically and horizontally to create small squares on closely woven cotton. (iii) Loosely woven cotton folded accordian style, running stitch through all layers. (iv) Loosely woven cotton, folded in four, parallel lines of zig zag running stitch worked closely together through all layers. (v) Ori-nui Shibori (running stitched): Loosely woven cotton, folded then running stitch across fold. (vi) Ori-nui Shibori (running stitched): Diagonal folds stitched with running stitch then small circles stitched between folds; tightly woven cotton. (vii) Maki-nui Shibori (oversewn stitch): Loosely woven fabric folded and whip stitched over fold. (viii) Ori-nui Shibori (running stitched): Small circles stitched on calico with running stitch. (ix) Mokume Shibori: Rows of running stitch worked closely together on close woven cotton. (x) Mokume Shibori: Undulating rows of running stitch worked on fine cotton lawn. (xi) Fine cotton lawn folded into four, then stitched with spirals and circles. (xii) Karamatsu shibori ('larch'): Loosely woven cotton folded accordian style then running stitch worked in parallel curves. (xiii) Ori-nui Shibori (running stitched): Loosely woven cotton folded horizontally and vertically to create squares, running stitch worked on folds. (xiv) Spiral worked in running stitch on fine cotton lawn. (xv) Loosely woven cotton folded in four, then stitched with parallel lines of running stitch. (xvi) Maki-nui Shibori (oversewn stitch): Loosely woven cotton folded horizontally and vertically to create squares, whip stitched over folds; 2 digonal lines in centre of each square, also folded and whip stitched. (xvii) Loosely woven fabric folded accordian style, 3 step hand stitched zig zag. (xviii) Maki-age Shibori (stitched and tied resist)::Cotton calico, unbleached, stitched with running stitch vertically and horizontally to create squares, then small circles stitched in centre of each square, hen centre of circle tied. B. TIED-RESIST SHIBORI: (xix) Unbleached cotton calico scrunched into a ball and wrapped with elastic bands. (xx) Unbleached cotton calico, rolled around length of strong wool, then tied in a knot pulling gathers tightly. (xxi) Unbleached cotton calico, gathered and tied with elastic bands. (xxii) Ne-maki Shibori: Unbleached cotton calico, fabric pinched and then wrapped and knotted with strong thread before carrying thread over to next section. C. ITAJIME SHIBORI - FOLDED AND CLAMPED SHIBORI: (xxiii) Unbleached cotton calico, folded accordian style before clamping with clothes pegs. D. ARASHI SHIBORI: (xxiv) Loosely woven cotton stitched on to plastic bottle then bound and scrunched up.
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I'm always on the lookout for crafts and DIY presents that upcycle materials we have around the house. Never mind that I am a horrible packrat when it comes to recyclables and I have multiple stashes around the house "just in case" I need them for a fabulous craft idea. I have a whole closet dedicated to toilet paper rolls, egg cartons and glass jars. When I saw this post about creating Elmer's Glue Gel Batik at All Our Days I knew I had finally found the perfect craft for some old worn and ripped sheets I have been saving for a few years. It was on my summer bucket list and in keeping with my one little word for 2014, "make". I am making bunting flags for my garden and I knew I wanted to try this technique for some of the flags. I didn't, however, have the glue gel. I decided to try it with regular white craft glue, and the results are in.... it worked perfectly. At All Our Days they suggest using this technique to make cloth napkins, which I could see working if enough of the paint is rubbed out of the fabric so that it is soft enough. I didn't worry about that because I am making flags and want the colour to be more intense and the fabric is slightly stiff from the paint, although ironing the fabric at the end made them softer. I imagine that after repeated washings the fabric would soften up as well. Materials: pieces of fabric, hemmed or edged on a sewing machine so that it won't fray (I used upcycled sheets). I only sewed around the edges on three sides for mine because I will be folding over and sewing the top edge to create my bunting. white craft glue acrylic paint paint brushes (I used the wedge sponge type) hot water in a shallow dish, and more hot water to rinse Method: "Draw" the pattern or shape onto the fabric using the glue. I practiced what I wanted to do on paper first to be sure that the design would fit. Lay the fabric in a sunny location to help set the glue on the surface. Luckily I did this on a hot day so this part of the drying process only took about an hour. The glue shouldn't be fully dry throughout or else it won't wash off in the hot water. To test if it is ready, run a dry brush lightly over the surface. The glue shouldn't smear and should still be white. The longer the glue is left to dry the harder it is to get out of the fabric later, but I would rather err on the side of leaving it too long than trying to paint over the glue and having it smear. When the glue is sufficiently set, paint the fabric using the acrylic paint. I decided to water my paint down quite a bit and slightly layer the colours. Lay the fabric out to dry. Wait until the paint is completely dry. Again, because I did this on a very hot day it only took about an hour. Pour hot tap water in a shallow dish in the sink and leave the fabric to soak until the glue rubs off easily. I had to add hot water a few times and rub with my fingers to completely remove the glue and paint. This took away some of the intensity of the colour but I was pleased with the final result so this didn't bother me. Lay the fabric to dry in the sun again. I tried this process minus the glue for a few pieces of fabric and they look great. The colour is more intense on those ones because I used more concentrated colour and a fine paint brush. I should have put something underneath the fabric while it was drying because it stained my table and now I have to figure out how to get it out. Iron the fabric if so desired. I ironed mine because I wanted them to lay flat. Turn it over and iron the wrong side. I also trimmed the fraying edges up close to the sewing edge that I did. Voila! I really like the blending of the colours in the batik versions, and the imperfections in the paint that give them a one of a kind appearance. My daughter designed the veggie flags and I did the chakra flags.
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Jokaisella tekstiili- ja vaatesuunnittelijalla tuntuu olevan aika, jolloin hän hurahtaa japanilaiseen tekstiilitaiteeseen. Kuten Kiinassa, myös Japanissa on tuhansia vuosia vanha tekstiili- ja käsityökulttuuri, josta ammentaa inspiraatiota sadoilla eri tekniikoilla. Minusta tuntuu, että oma japanikauteni on tulossa kovaa vauhtia. Se alkoi vaivihkaa isojen kotitakkien ja boro-kirjontojen fanittamisella ja nyt ollaan siirrytty shiborivärjäykseen. Kuten aina, pinterest on […]
a little blog post with lots of pretty pictures…workshop and shop update rolled into one.
