Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Salt on Silk results

Here are some examples of the experimenting I did with the last lesson in my QU class regarding the use of rock salt on silk habotai. Even when I did this using a faster method than in the instructions, the dye separated and moved and reacted to the presence of the salt.

Here is the blue section with a bit of the purple seeping down into it. It has some movement and separation of color.
This isn't easy to do and is something that takes practice and knowledge of which intensities of color will give the best results. If your silk is too wet the salt can't absorb all the dye. If it is too dry, there isn't enough to work with so the results will be less dramatic like you see here.

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