Pattern dyeing with Silk Organza

The tulle fabrics such as organza, chiffon, etc are usually dyed to one color rather than pattern dye. The nylon chiffon has no choice but to use machine-made color or pattern. The hand dyeing is not easy so Tie-dye has difficulty using whitish nylon color. If you want to try Tie-dye with chiffon, you'd better use 100% silk chiffon or organza. 

I tried several pattern dyeing with Silk Dupioni Organza. Mostly I've made crinkle pattern with thread and used also wax to try the technique of batik. Arashi shibori(a pole-wrapping technique) was used as well. You might guess that Silk Dupioni Organza is harder to do Tie-dye than cotton or silk chiffon because it's stiff but it becomes soft when it gets wet so pattern dyeing is not a big deal. In addition, it's see-through fabric made by thicker cocoon thread than chiffon's. That makes a better outcome of dyeing.

The crinkle pattern used thread.

The crinkle pattern used wax. It looks soft when the thread used but lacks elaborate expression owing to the big patterns. The cracking pattern comes well out when wax used, but the process is complicated. You want to know the way? Click here to see how to use wax.

It is also cracking pattern by wax. I've dyed it with two colors, generally dyeing with gardenia first and then cracking with sappan wood.

The feature of the Silk Dupioni Organza, showing different color by the light is unchanged after pattern dyeing.

This is another dyeing work by wax painted with a brush coloring in parts. If you are interested in the loose fiber dyeing, you would know that the difficulty of maintaining the fastness of color by painting not dyeing. That is to say the making patterns need to be made by dyeing rather than drawing. Do you want to get the expression of brushstrokes? Then the dyeing is worth trying. This one will be posted later.

Arashi shibori(a pole-wrapping technique) dyeing using long and round PET bottle. The wet Silk Dupioni Organza is not stiff so it can be wrapped easily.

I was not easy taking photos of the process while I was dyeing. My hands were dirty and wet but washed and dried them over and over again all along the process to hold the camera. That was annoyed me doing work smoothly. But I will try get more pictures of the work for my blog.

I'm in gradation dyeing test these days. The gradation work needs time at least more than twice compared with ordinary dyeing and have to keep an eye throughout the work. But the result looks much softer than one colored dye so I'm putting my concentration on it. You may look forward to seeing the posting of gradation dyeing.