Try dye a tie dye

Last sunday I try to recognize "how to tie dye"
I used to take the Textile Design Course and that semester I had many tie dye class
I had many experiment on it

The most exciting time is cutting a string (or elastic band)
Many pattern was really surprising!!

So let do it again !!

I can find a old big white zinc pot in Mom's kitchen.
The pigment i bought from "Tang Hua Seng" (7 Baht per box)



( i really like an classic lady on the box :D )

I gather everything i can find in Mom's kitchen that is hard enough to be squeezed
such as a glass bottle,an cap of bottle , a wooden chopstick

and make fabric be resisted
by the rubber bands, paper clips and rope.

Boiling it in color solution. ( 1 box per 1 litre of water)
It takes about 40 mins.

Now see my result !!

One color maybe too boring,so I tie them again but this time
i have to plan where i want the color be kept (resisted)
or where to want it be colored.

I choose a dark purple pigment.

Snowflake Spinn n n.....

One of my favorite design class is Jewelry casting 'cus I can study in many new craft skill !!

Actually , I'm not familiar with metal work and this is my first jewelry design course. How exciting :D

I was assigned to create the metal jewelry , the theme design is “Movable”. I get an inspired by nature form because of its complexity and delicate details and the forms I really like is Snowflake ,rich in complicated details.It's also very shiny and sparkling under the light (How amazing!!),so it's right to the design theme 55.

Firstly, I have to draw an snowflake outline in paper and copy it to the metal sheet ( in this class we usually use the brass) Then I sawed, sawed and sawed…. it take such a long time to get millimetres cutting.

Can you imagine that !! sawing a lot of little delicate shapes using just a tiny scroll saw,that‘s quite terrible a big job. I think I can exercise my upper arm too :D

Time fly... with the my sweat on the face.

And this is the final cut :D

compared it with my hand :D

My jewelry professor later let us use own cutting piece to create the wearable jewelry with any ideas. Then I think about to combine this kinda shape with many pieces together but it would be so hard and take such a long time to do 555

Actually, I think it’s not a good idea because of lots of detail will lessen the beauty of itself. So I just simplify the shape and keep the same identity.

I want my jewelry be evolvable (creating a hidden surprise :D) You can see from this pic that the top of snowflake is turned around by my thumb. Moving snowflake creates the sparkling shadow. I combined it with curvy brass wire that everyone can wear and enjoy the snowflake spining shadow.

just turn around .d .d .....

snowflake with curvy brass wire