Shibori Dying Technique with Kids

A few summers ago I tried this Shibori dying technique with kids in my summer art camp and the LOVED it!! I tried information technology again this jump with my son and I wanted to add a few new photos to this postal service. He is fourteen and really wanted a tie-dye hoodie in ane color. Niggling did he realize how VERY EXCITED I was by this request. Like, as well excited, lol. He said, "Mom calm down" like a true teen.

Shibori is a Japanese tie-dying technique. There are an infinite number of ways one can bind, stitch, fold, twist, or compress material for Shibori, and each manner results in very dissimilar patterns. When nosotros tried this in summer camp back in 2015. I had eight kids that week, ages five-7, and each of them took a turn with the indigo dye. The best office by far was cut off the rubber bands at the end. No thing how you lot tied it, the patterns were So COOL!

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Supply list for Shibori dying with kids:

~ Indigo dye kit

~ White 100% cotton wool t-shirt (or napkins or any white fabric)

~ Prophylactic bands

~ Wooden blocks, clothespins, corks

~ Large bucket or pot for fresh water

~ Large v gallon bucket with hat for indigo dye

~ Stick for stirring

~ Tarp for drying

~ Pair of scissors for cutting off the rubber bands

Shibori dying technique with kids:

i. In that location were five blogs that I looked at before I tried shibori: Honestly, WTF, In Color Lodge, Park and Cube, and Blueprint Sponge. You will observe everything you need in these four posts (plus at that place are instructions inside the box of dye), but I will add together some of my own insights that could assistance you when doing this with kids.

two. Piffling fingers have a hard time with rubber bands. It all depends on a kid'south determination. But at the very to the lowest degree, y'all and your child tin can exercise it together. Y'all can guide their hands, or do every other. The easiest technique for kids would exist to accordion fold their t-shirt or material, then add together a block on each side and necktie just a couple of rubber bands.

3. Later tying upward your t-shirts, soak them in some h2o first. But before heading over to the buckets, I gave each kid a pair or rubber gloves so their easily wouldn't be completely blue later on.

4. Afterward the material is nice and wet, squeeze it out a little before gently placing it in the dye bucket. Once in the dye, the kids had fun pushing downwardly and swirling around their cloth. They did this for most x minutes.

five. And then it's time to pull it out of the dye, squeezing out equally much indigo equally possible. Information technology's really cool because the color at first is a bright greenish. The indigo reacts to the oxygen in the air and turns blueish within a few minutes. That role was really fun to watch.

half dozen. Rinse the cloth a few times in fresh water, until no more dye runs out (or most no more).

7. Nosotros stale ours for a flake on a tarp. Then, after everyone had dyed their slice of material, I cut off all of the elastics with scissors while the kids played with the hose.

viii. Here are all of the moisture pieces hanging out to dry. Once air-stale, I threw them in the washer on cold with some detergent, then in the dryer.

Some Shibori tying techniques we tried:

ane. Accordion folding (starting at the lesser of the shirt and moving up, and then sideways to arrive a small foursquare), tie in the center with prophylactic bands and add clothespins.

2. Corks (I cut them in half first, yous could too use marbles) with rubber bands to create "Fireworks".

iii. Sunburst with evenly spaced condom bands (pull shirt from the middle and necktie).

4. Rolling on a diagonal with condom bands only on the lesser half (roll the t-shirt from one corner all the way into a "serpent", then tie with safe bands half-way downwards the shirt).

5. Piano accordion fold diagonally into a "snake", then tie evenly with rubber bands.

We also tried a traditional necktie-dye swirl design:

6. We used a white hoodie and did a swirl technique whereby yous pinch the eye, keep turning information technology in a spiral, tucking all the fabric around, and and then tying it deeply with rubber bands. We watched this tutorial to learn how.

I simply LOVE the way the indigo dye turned out. And the best role was that it didn't fade too much in the laundry. The wet and dry pieces looked very similar. The kids (and the moms) were SO impressed – perchance the moms more and so. In fact, I remember I'thou going to do a shibori craft night next summer!!

Shibori folding and dying TIPS:

I did make a few rookie mistakes which I will share with you lot:

1. It actually does aid to double dye your textile. I was existence quick and lazy during military camp just when I tried again the adjacent 24-hour interval, I double-dyed (dipped it dorsum in after squeezing it out and letting it turn blue) and the colors stayed stronger in the wash.

2. Information technology's better to accordion fold your t-shirt and tie than roll and tie. When rolling, the fabric on the very inside doesn't get whatever dye at all and so when you unroll, one side of your shirt will be white. It does give it a cool ombre consequence, but  I personally liked it meliorate when the dye was evenly displaced. So piano accordion folding will create a more even distribution from side to side.

3. If y'all do scroll (rather than accordion fold) then make sure the front of the t-shirt is on the outside. It will get the heaviest amount of dye.

4. If you lot are doing the traditional tie-dye (big circle) and y'all have a really thick t-shirt, you lot may desire to tie the front and the back separately, rather than at the same fourth dimension. This will requite you a strong circle on both the front and the back. Also, if you expect below at the pink t-shirts y'all can meet that I also tied the sleeves with three condom bands. This is kind of cute, too, when doing the traditional circumvolve.

Have fun!!

xx Bar

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