Related Keywords: Japanese cloth dyeing technique, Shibori
Shibori , an ancient Japanese dyeing technique has been around since about the 8th century. The technique of dyeing cloth with a pattern which involve twisting, tying, crumpling, stitching or folding fabric, usually silk or cotton, in various ways, transforming the two-dimensional material into a sculptural, three-dimensional form. This sculptural shape is then traditionally dyed, originally using indigo, although a huge variety of colors and dyes are now used. Sometimes, the same fabric is then twisted in some other way and then dyed again.
