I began documenting my found objects using watercolours, doing small studies of mainly mussel shells, as these were the ones I was most interested in for their colours. These were quite successful and I intend to carry on with them.
I created a colour atlas, of eight pages, for the reactive dye digital printer on silk habotai this week. this will be very useful if I decide to do digital prints, and will be good to use in collaboration with my RGB colours I have already chosen.
Working in the print room this week we experimented with different techniques, I was using devore, and in particular, reverse devore, By using opaque binder with a design and then an open screen, the binder will resist the devore and so the surrounding fabric will be burnt away leaving a small up-raised design. This worked particularly well on silk viscose velvet (which will take natural dyes) and I am interested in experimenting with this technique when appropriate.
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