The lime green fabric I purchased was quite wide and I was able to cut 5 fundoshi from it. The lavender gauze and dark green cheesecloth gave me 4 each.
What to do, what to do.......
I could give the extra away. I could figure out some other use for the material. I could try to make each one unique.
Let’s make each one unique. This follows my desire to have a more ‘hand made’ approach to objects around me. Equipped with some research, brushes, bleach and other chemicals, I tried my hand at discharge dyeing techniques. You can think of this as tie-dye in reverse. Instead of adding color to the material, you are subtracting it.
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| original |
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| enhanced |
While I was working away in a well ventillated atmosphere, I had a couple of ideas based on posts at Fundoshi4All - Adult. Ryan did a rather lovely photo-essay of a white fundoshi against bedsheets. You can find it here: Fundoshi Poem Often, he also posts ‘Fundoshi in Art’ blogs. Putting the 2 together served as inspiration for a series I shot of my fundoshi against my new black backdrop. I tried to push the color and contrast where I could.
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| fundoshi as art |
For the next few blogs, I will alternate between the 3 different colors I have to show the different effects I got from the discharge dyeing.
Fundoshi....
Lime green, one original and the other freshly designed.
Fabric....
Crinkle gauze - again. My shipment from fabric.com just arrived, so there will be lots more colors and fabrics to go through in the near future.
Photography....
Like the last shoot, I was going for a higher than normal contrast between the lights and the dark backdrop. It actually makes the green a little more neon than in reality....but I’m not a photo-journalist, so artistic license is okay!
And now...the rest of the photos....
i think you can start a little online store for self made Fundoshi. very interesting adventure with fundoshi.
ReplyDeleteI seem to be obsessed with this discharge technique. I just finished 8 in the past two days.
ReplyDeletefabric.com must love me!