Silk dye workshop at George Town

Today, Noel and I travelled to George Town, where we conducted a workshop at the home of a good friend, Chris Price. There were twelve participants and each of them completed two silk scarves. We used Landscape acid milling dyes on the silk scarves. We used a resist technique to achieve the patterns on the scarves. Each of the participants tied their silk scarves to an empty straight sided bottle with strong thread, before applying the dyes. The scarves were then steamed for 15 minutes to fix the dyes into the silk fibres. They were all amazed by the very diverse results, even though they had used the same basic techniques and colours.