Shibori

I'm learning about dyeing fabric in my Images on Fabric course. I'm going to work on my Transitional Collection and the course assignments simultaneously. The collection will be inspired by Nicaragua and its foliage and scenery. I will photograph and document the process of those pieces when I get to them.
For now I'm experimenting with Shibori and other resist dyeing techniques with acid, resist, and reactive dyes.

Here are a few samples I did last night:

These are both different types of silk. For the sample on the left, I started tying from the center of the square cut piece of fabric and kept going in different intervals, hoping to get varying circles when it was done. For the sample on the right, I pleated the fabric in one direction and then folded and pleated in the other direction. Then I clamped it diagonally across.

With the tied up piece I played around with the way I dipped it in the dye.
The clamped piece just chilled inside the dye bath for a while.

The finished pieces. The one on the left is the clamped piece and the one on the right was the tied one.