Tie Dip Dye by Pepa Martin & Karen Davis

This is the year that I do a deep dive into dying. I haven't done this since I lived in Central California and was in a fiber guild with Jean Ray Laury. I did some dying and some silk screening and I really enjoyed it--as well as enjoying the creative expression it afforded. So I am taking all the books out of my local library that are available and learning what I can before I can take some classes. I started by going to the National Shibori Museum when I was in Kyoto and taking a class there. Then there are two things are happening to assist with expanging my coloring experience into the 21st century. My guild is doing an indigo dye vat in August, and the in person workshops that I take not at QuiltCon are at Minnesota Quilters and this year I am taking three classes where I do dying. This book has several techniques that I will be doing immersion in--ombre, shibori--specifically folding and tying or sewing to get resist dying features, ice dying and ombre dying. The book is a bit scant on exact details, but does have good pictures, if you are a visual learner, and it has a brief narrative about each technique. I think it would be hard to use this book alone to do it on your own, but it would be a good book to use in combination with a book that discusses more about the dyes themselves.