Shibori is everywhere! It has been trending in fashion, Home Products, Paper goods, and doesn’t seem to be going away soon. DIY’ers are going crazy!
Shibori is a Japanese word; a method of creating resists for the dye process using binding, stitching, folding and twisting.
In japan the earliest example of cloth dyed with the shibori technique is from the 8th century. Indigo was the most common dye used with this technique.
Some Terms associated with Shibori are:
Plangi~ a Malay-Indonesian word~the process of gathering and binding cloth.
Bandhani~ and Indian word~ the process of plucking and binding cloth in small points.
Tritik~Malay-Indonesian word~ process of using stitches as a resist.
Arashi~ Japanese word ~the pole wrapping technique.
Itajime~Japanese word~ a shape-resist technique.
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