by Mickie | Dec 13, 2016 | Fiber Arts, Fiber Techniques, Light-Sensitive Dye, SolarFast dye by Jacquard
For this art quilt, doilies that had been collected over the years were dyed individually, then sewn onto cloth I had painted. The images were all produced with light-sensitive dye, most of them by rolling SolarFast dye onto the cloth and exposing in sunlight with a ... read more
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... read more
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... read more
