![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkeyFrom http://isatinctoria.filensoie.com/mokume%20shibori.jpg This is a nice example of mokume-shibori. Those lines of running stitch are drawn tight, the fabric is dyed, and the result is a wood-grain-like pattern.
Some of you may recall that mokume-shibori was the one effect that I got to work successfully on my first attempt. Besides, I think it's darned pretty.
I spent a big chunk of today stitching six inch-wide "stripes" of randomly arranged lines of parallel running stitch 34 inches across. Each stripe has five courses of stitches. 6 x 5 x 34 = 1020 inches. Or more than 28 yards of stitching. By hand. Which is not even close to halfway there.
Layout has been assisted somewhat by putting down strips of masking tape on the silk to delineate the edge of each stripe. I stitched down the edge of the tape strips, then pulled up the tape and began filling in the stripe stitching as shown in the photo below. Randomness is good. Randomness will add to the beauty of the final pattern. (The question is whether I will have generated enough randomness to pop it into a dyepot by next weekend so that I can swan around Estrella in it?)
This should make![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
trystan feel much better.
Some of you may recall that mokume-shibori was the one effect that I got to work successfully on my first attempt. Besides, I think it's darned pretty.
I spent a big chunk of today stitching six inch-wide "stripes" of randomly arranged lines of parallel running stitch 34 inches across. Each stripe has five courses of stitches. 6 x 5 x 34 = 1020 inches. Or more than 28 yards of stitching. By hand. Which is not even close to halfway there.
Layout has been assisted somewhat by putting down strips of masking tape on the silk to delineate the edge of each stripe. I stitched down the edge of the tape strips, then pulled up the tape and began filling in the stripe stitching as shown in the photo below. Randomness is good. Randomness will add to the beauty of the final pattern. (The question is whether I will have generated enough randomness to pop it into a dyepot by next weekend so that I can swan around Estrella in it?)
This should make
trystan feel much better.
