Fundoshi In Red

This particular fabric is a modern batiste. Along with the cheesecloth, gauze, muslin, lawn and voile that have previously been discussed, the batiste is the thickest, so is not very sheer. This was not always the case in the history of this fabric. Historical batiste is what we are now calling organdy and is semi-sheer in nature. You can still find semi-sheer fabric marked as ʻbatisteʻ, but mostly, you will find a thicker weave.

This particular fabric came from fabric.com, my favorite online retailer of fabric. If you follow my tumblr feed, you have seen this fabric in one of the hotel room series. That series has an ʻundesignedʻ fundoshi.

In creating the design, some odd things occurred. The weave is so tight, it resisted being dampened. For this fundoshi, I kept the fabric dry, and the result puzzled me. 

 

I was doing one of my favorite designs - a strip down the center and at each side. Other fundoshi Iʻve done this design to have soft and subtle transitions. As you can see, this is not the case here. It reminds me of sound wave patterns.

For the shoot, I went with a white vinyl backdrop.

I played a bit by staying on the floor. I was trying to keep an even skin tone, but concentrate of some shadows. In my mind, I think I was trying to see how moody I could get the shoot while having a white background.

fundoshi…red with stripes that look like waveforms

fabric...100% cotton batiste

photography…directional lighting to create shadows....truth in advertising dictates I state I did use post-production techniques to amplify the look....

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Next time on fundoshi, fabric and photos:  I get all artsy-fartsy on you with the khaki cheesecloth fundoshi and some stray burgundy fabric....stay tuned!