Experience the One-of-a-Kind Wearable Art of Barbara Jean

The ancient Japanese art of shibori is any shaped resist process which leaves a memory on cloth when dyeing in order to create pattern. Rather than treating cloth as a two-dimensional surface, with shibori it is given a three-dimensional form by folding, crumbling, stitching, plaiting, or plucking and twisting. Cloth shaped by these methods is secured in a number of ways, such as folding and knotting.

It is the pliancy of a textile and its potential for creating a multitude of shape-resisted designs, that the concept of shibori recognizes and explores. With shibori, the dyer works in concert with the materials, not in an effort to overcome their limitations, but to allow them full expression. An element of the unexpected is always present. This is its special magic and strongest appeal.

Katazome - Japanese Paste-Resist Dyeing