Shibori

Hello everyone,

Today I will discuss about Shibori which is one of the most popular tie and dyes.

Shibori is a Japanese tie and dye technique whose traces can be found from the 8th century.In the 20th century it got popular. Before it was done on hemp and is now done on cotton. It is mostly dyed in indigo colour. Shibori has a soft or blurry edged pattern. In ancient time Shibori was an art of poor, because they could'nt afford expensive fabric, they decided to make them by your own.

There are various types of tie and dyeing technique in Shibori.

• Kanoko Shibori:  It is the most popular technique of shibori. In this technique we bind certain section of a cloth by inserting a bead inside it and then tying the cloth around it. The tighter the knot will be the more it will resist the dye.

  

  Kanoko Shibori

• Miura Shibori: In this kind of dyeing technique loop binding takes place. The same part of cloth is looped twice to resist the dye.

  

  Miura Shibori

• Kumo Shibori: It is a pleated and bound resist. Some sections of the cloths are pleated and is bound really closely and finely.

  

  Kumo Shibori

• Nui Shibori: In this technique the section of clothes are sewed with a running stitch and then the thread is pulled tightly and then knotted. Those the fabric gives better shading and different patterns.
  

• Arashi Shibori: In this dyeing technique the cloth is wrapped or twisted diagonally and with the help of a thread some of its sections are wrapped. It results in diagonal patterns which also said to look like a heavy storm. Arashi Shibori is also called pole wrapping Shibori.
  

Itajime Shibori: In this technique the cloth is kept between pieces of wood blocks and then the cloth is patterned only there where the wood is not there.

Itajime Shibori

References:

Techniques (2008) Available at: https://shibori.org/traditions/techniques/ (Accessed: 13 January 2017).

About Shibori (no date) Available at: http://www.michaelsilks.com/shibori_about.html (Accessed: 14 January 2017).