Just arrived are a bundle of 100% handwoven cotton and hemp fabrics. These natural textiles are hand produced and hand-dyed, using natural plant dyes. Some of these have been washed in a rice water solution to starch them.
These will be available in the store to be purchased by 25cm lengths for smaller projects and also [...]
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JUST ARRIVED- Plain 100% handwoven, hand-dyed Hemp and cotton!
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Resistance dyeing and the Lao WEFT IKAT
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Below is another gorgeous piece of Lao cotton IKAT or MUTMEE, carefully handwoven into a smooth fine cotton textile. These textiles use resistance dyeing methods, similar to tie-dying, where the threads of the fabric are resist dyed before being woven to allow a pattern to appear. These threads are hand dyed, many numerous times , [...]
