Memory on Cloth: Shibori Now

by Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada

Shibori is infinitely more than the tie-dye that became well known in the late 1960s. Shaped-resist dyeing techniques have been done for centuries in every corner of the world. Yet more than half of the known techniques--in which cloth is in some way tied, clamped, folded, or held back during dyeing, to keep some areas from taking color--originated in Japan.

Shibori can be used not only to create patterns on cloth but to turn fabric from a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568364709
• ISBN13: 9781568364704
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Kodansha International
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.1" x 11.8"