Shibori is infinitely more than the tie-dye that became well known in the late 1960s. Shaped-resist dyeing techniques have been done for centuries in every corner of the world. Yet more than half of the known techniques-in which cloth is in some way tied, clamped, folded, or held back during dyeing, to keep some areas from taking color - originated in Japan.
Shibori can be used not only to create patterns on cloth but to turn fabric from a two-dimensional into a three-dimensional object. The word is used here to refer to any process that leaves a memory on cloth' -a permanent record,'
ISBN: | 9781568364704 |
Publication date: | 16th November 2012 |
Author: | Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada |
Publisher: | Kodansha Books an imprint of Penguin Random House Group |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 211 pages |
Genres: |
The arts: general topics |