Creating My Garment -day 6

Adding the Dye

My wax has now all dried to its time to dye the fabric. These two panels are the ones that most represent the rust element so I used mostly browns and oranges. I had a method to painting on the dye, I first painted on yellow, green, light blue, brown, dark blue and then at the end I added random splashes of purple. I started with the lightest colour fist as once the darkest colour is one there, there is no going back, no adding any more light colours. This only took about an hour as I can paint rather fast. I was not too sure on the outcome as it did not really look much like the sea, however when it dried the blue started shining through. I then ironed out all the batik it took an hour but the fabric is still quite stiff. But I decided to keep the stiff fabric in to add more texture.

Creating My Garment -day 5

Wax Batik

After completing my tye-dye, It was time to create the next panel. I found a lot of cotton calico in out scrap fabric bins at school. There was nothing wrong is it so I thought id recycle it and it would also keep the cost down of the production. I cut out enough for 3 panels when I was only making 2 panels from batik. I did this in case it went wrong or I did not like the pattern on a certain part of the batik. Batiking this large amount of fabric took around 2 hours to do. I kept the pattern very loose as I wanted the shapes/swirls to represent the shapes metal creates when it erodes. I made sure some lines were thicker and others thin so it adds more of a unique look.