by Mickie | May 14, 2015 | Fiber Arts
An April workshop with Pavlos Mayakis at the Mendocino Art Center (MAC) was on over-dyeing fiber reactive dye with vat dyes – two chemically different systems – to create brilliant areas with halos where the colors met. After soda-soaking and dyeing fabric...
by Mickie | May 9, 2015 | Fiber Arts, Light-Sensitive Dye
I’ve been using light-sensitive dyes for many years – first Inko Dye and more recently Jacquard’s SolarFast dye. These bright, permanent dyes can be used for photographic images, but give great results for other uses too. And all the techniques can be combined to...