Do you know the trout lily, a lovely spring flower with speckled leaves like little trout in the shallows? and the Trout Quintet, Die Forelle, of Schubert. If you don't think you know it, but you've watched Waiting for God, that's the incidental music, so you do know it after all.
Just musing over the intersections of art and music and language and how they're right there in front of us if we notice them.
But, onward and another dyeing adventure today: shibori, tied work, very simple approach. Shibori can get very sophisticated, but here I was just finding out if my dyes would do it at all. Using spinach in one bath, turmeric in the other, I did two shirts, great fun. I plan to cut them shorter though, since they're usually a bit too long for me. Since they're knitted, the edges will curl up and not need hemming.
Here's the general sequence of events:
Dyebaths ready for service, and I added alum in to the spinach bath,but not to the turmeric one, which doesn't need the help.
The little parcels are shirts, fanfolded, turned over and tied up a bit like a piece of pork. This is what gives you the stripey effect. I did a similar thing with both shirts. Next time out I'm going to enclose some round objects and tie them to get round motifs. Just to see how it goes.
And after the exercise of great patience and several hours in the dyebaths, the shirts emerged with a fanfare.
Very happy with today's work.
