Traditionally shibori has been used to create stunning indigo norens or door curtains. These are used at the entrance to a room or to a shop, café or other business. Using a door curtain provides pattern, light and interest at […]
5 Japanese Noren (door curtain) to inspire your shibori designs Read More »
I love using shibori to pattern clothing. As a result I will share some inspirational but wonderfully simple ideas for patterning clothes with shibori. While searching for other things I found these designs on Pinterest! I am going to inspire
Ideas for Using Shibori to Devise Fabulous Patterned Clothing and Fashion Read More »
Let me introduce you to some straightforward instructions and images for creating 3 different stitch resist patterns in fabric by simple folding and stitching. Folding and tying in these uncomplicated ways produces some lovely patterns. These fabrics are dyed with indigo, I have
How to Create 3 Fun and Easy Shibori Stripe Designs in Indigo. Read More »
Let me show you how to create this simple maki-age shibori flower shape. An anemone flower sketch is the original inspiration. Adapt this design idea and way of working to create many beautiful shibori patterns. Once you have tried this
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Creating a bespoke custom made lamp design from a logo design in shibori stitch resist. I will outline how I go about this in 5 steps. 1. This was a really challenging project to take this Bob Dylan eye
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Here I show you how to create two simple leaf designs in maki-age shibori I love using maki-age shibori. Here are more designs to create using this one particular stitch resist shibori technique. What sort of designs and sizes work? The effect
How to Make 2 Simple Leaf Designs in Stitch Resist Shibori Read More »
Creating a bespoke lamp design to coordinate with an existing fabric How I go about this in 6 easy steps. Here is the clients curtain fabric from which I need to select some design elements to use in the bespoke lamp
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Creating a new lampshade design to coordinate with an existing curtain fabric – how to do this. I will outline how I go about this in 5 steps. Here is the textile fabric by Laura Ashley from which I need
Designing a Shibori Lampshade to Coordinate with Curtain Fabric Read More »
