Essentially, what vat dye discharge does is take out the color where you apply it and drop in a new color at the same time. For example, the picture I already posted:
Here, the red was dyed first, and then I stamped on the gold. It took out the red so that the gold would show up. This was on charmeuse silk.
Another scarf I did is on habotai (or china silk):
The difference here is that the discharge part of the process moved faster than the dye, leaving a halo effect around the shapes.
We created big stamps the size of the scarves to make the patterns, but you can also screen print with it. We rolled our concoctions on...
And then stamped them on the fabric...
From here on out will be miscellaneous pictures from the workshop. If you're interested in learning the process yourself, Janet will be teaching the process at Penland in April and possibly at Arrowmont in the near future as well. I'm seriously considering going to Penland so I can explore this some more.
That's all for today. Coming soon, I finished a pair of socks that I can finally show off!
