SHIMO FABRIC MANUAL

This was one of Debbie's recent pieces - after coming out of the indigo dye. It all begins with the stitching pattern. The size of the finished design can be manipulated by changing the size of the stitching pattern allowing for very large and very small designs. The indigo buckets are ready for a special class at the Sunset Retreat in Texas. (Resist dyeing is when techniques are used to prevent the dye from reaching all of the cloth.)

SHIMO FABRIC MANUAL

After the piece was dyed, the plastic wrap and stitching are removed.įor those who aren't familiar with shibori, it is a Japanese method of manual resist dyeing that can produce different patterns on fabric. Each circle was wrapped in plastic wrap to resist the dye. Circles were drawn and stiched, then the stitching threads were pulled really tight so that the inside of the circle would be white. This is one of the pieces from the Shimo collection.

She also works frequently with fat quarter-size pieces - 18' long x 22' wide.

She usually works with pieces of white prepared-for-dyeing fabric that measures 22' long by 42' wide because that is generally the size of her repeat. Most of Debbie's shibori prints are the result of stitched designs so the first step is to being drawing the stitching lines on the fabric. So when she begins creating shibori designs that will be reproduced for her fabric collections, she tries to design fabrics that are different than traditional shibori. Debbie Maddy is an independent thinker and a designer.

Shimo fabric