Fold/Unfold

Textiles and Leather are hand dyed in shibori technique by Barbara Rogers

Cloth may be drawn up and bound, stitched and gathered, pleated and bound, folded and clamped between boards, or wrapped around a pole then pushed along to compress the fabric into folds. When the cloth is returned to its two dimensional form after dyeing, the design that emerges is the result of the three dimensional shape, the type of resist, and the amount of pressure from the thread or clamp that secured the shape during the cloth’s exposure to the dye.