©2024 Alyssa Merlini

EX001 → Shibori Textures

EX001

Shibori Textures (2022)
People know Shibori as the art of dyeing fabric using knots as a tool. The goal of this project was to repurpose this technique by the use of heat manipulation to create a variety of fabric samples utilising common objects as texturing tools.

Organza was my chosen material due to its ease of manipulation and reaction to heat; to knot the objects, I used cotton thread due to its heat resilience and ease of cutting. The cloth was shaped with beads, marbles, paper clips, bottle caps, coins, pencils, or just thread.

The technique is simple but required patience: first, the fabric was knotted, then boiled in hot water and sun-dried.

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