Shibori

Shibori is a traditional Japanese surface design technique. It is basically shape-resist dyeing. Patterns can be stitched, tied, folded, clamped, twisted, etc. Arashi was developed in the nineteenth century, and involves wrapping fabric around a pole and manipulating it in order to achieve pattern and texture. I have taken classes with Anna Lisa Hedstrom and Yoshika Wada, who is the author of Shibori: The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped-Resist Dyeing, and Shibori Now: Memory on Cloth.