Clamp dyeing pattern

I travel an hour west of Tokyo, to a small mountain village, in hopes to learn as much as I can about the indigo dyeing process in one day. I’m meeting Bryan Whitehead and visiting his studi…

Clamping!

Teresa Misagal on Instagram: “Repost from @verityanddaughters 💙 Itajime Shibori is a Japanese method of creating patterns by pleating, folding, clamping and dyeing the…”

One of our new textiles, 'Colaba' from our soon to be released collection, 'Bombay Glitz' is handmade by a Clamp Dye Resist process, also called Itajime. It basically involves making folds in the fabric and then using a carved wood...

It’s been a busy, productive week for me. My sewing machine has been put to good use embroidering tigers, leaves and flowers, and I attended RAFA’s monthly meeting. Show and tell was …

Long silk charmeuse scarf, hand-dyed with indigo using an itajime resist technique of clamps and shapes. I move the circle clamp between the indigo dips to get the ghost-moon effect.