Working
with dye on fabric is different than working
with paint. By using dyes, the color does not
lay on top, but penetrates the fiber. Ensuring
that color is through and through. Maintaining
vibrancy and the hand of the fabric.
To achieve effects and patterns, Trudy combines Shibori and Arashi with
more direct hand painting techniques. These scarves are burnout velvet. When dyed, the rayon pile takes on intense colors.
The process includes:
pleating,
twisting and tying on a pole, mimicking traditional
Japanese techniques
vat dying or painting to
achieve variation and blending
creating resist lines to
define pattern and color
discharging to emphasize
the linear quality produced by wrapping/tying
fiber
