While dying fabric I’m learning a lot! Some of it comes from books and some of it I stumble upon.
Case in point, trying to mix thickened dye colors directly on the fabric. I had heard that they wouldn’t really mix in this way, but I was feeling lazy and had to give it a try. First, I tried it with a mixture of greens and some clear dye paste.
As expected, the greens were blotchy. But what was that lighter squiggly pattern? It was the clear paste, which acted as a resist to the other colors.
Bingo! That looked like something fun to play with.
So, I tried to repeat my results with a variety of colors and patterns. Red with circles, and pink with feathers.
Brown circles and orange spears/leaves.
Yummy! A quick and easy way to get a tone on tone pattern.
Ellen Lindner
Looks like a wonderful way to add design and texture. DId you let the clear paste dry before adding the colored paste or did you add the colored paste while the clear was still wet?
Hi Regina,
I added the colored paste while the clear was still wet. It was amazing how well it worked.