Silk Organza Project : Hand Dyeing Silk Organza Gray

As I said on my past posts, I'm doing a Dyeing project with Silk Dupioni Organza. There is no place to make patterns automatically on this silk. This silk is Korean traditional fabric used for Hanbok, the Korean traditional clothes, and usually solid colors are used. So, there was no need to make patterns on this silk so far. But I think that this silk organza is very functional and suitable for Home interior textile and objets. If this Silk Dupioni Organza has variety of colors and  patterns, it would be used for various places.

These days I've tried to make modern patterns. When I showed my fabric to friends, some of them recommended that I should dye in modern colors and patterns. I totally agree with them. In order to enhance the practicality, modern design and repetitive patterns are needed.

So, I tested dyeing using soy wax to get repetitive patterns easily, and chose gray color for functionality. I painted with melted soy wax using brush first, and then dyeing in gray. As you know this is organza, see-through fabric, so its colors are influenced by background. Next picture show difference between the colors on white background and black background .

And I dyed this organza with Stencils, and I used paint brush instead of foam roller for getting colors on both sides.

But It was very hard to get colors on both sides equally. And even though it took  a long time to paint, the black color was uneven. I think that I should find another way to get perfect color and easy way.

Anyway, this is Silk Dupioni Organza. So, it is affected by light beautifully. I will try to get more modern colors and patterns with this Organza.