News from Calascio Designs. Hand dyed ART Wear featuring a contemporary twist on traditional Japanese shibori dyeing techniques.
This shirt is wound on a pole, wrapped evenly with string and scrunched. It is ready for a second dye color. The first color is vat dyed with fiber reactive dyes in a pale blue. The string and scrunching will resist the second dye color. I love the physical activity of this process. Winding the string is very repetitive and meditative. Scrunching is very actively physical. 
posted by Christina at 7:28 PM
I revere the stuff of nature -- both the detritus and the wonders. While transforming earth, fibers and branches into mysterious vessels and sensual objects, I seek to relay messages heard only by the ear of the heart. Forces and forms of nature act as metaphors for the barest bones of the human condition. I borrow building techniques from past cultures and the natural building movement. These include: structures from Native American architecture and Japanese fence building, natural clay plasters, and straw-clay building.
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