Time Travel

As a goddess, time travel is no problem so lets jump back to Aug 3, 2013 and see what's cooking in the kitchen.  Of course in my kitchen there is never any cooking going on nor is there housekeeping.  Those activities are better left to mortals and a good maid.  But today join me as we shout out that Sioux battle cry "Nake nula wauŋ welo!"  (english bastardization follows) .... Today is a good day to dye!!  That's right!  Eat, drink, be merry for today we dye. I know, misquotes all over the place but just go with it.  

I and my friend Betsy, Fiber Goddess, played most of the day dyeing cloth.  We mainly played at Deconstructed Screen Printing.  In this process you apply thickened dye in patterns to a blank, stretched silk screen frame.   The dye is allowed to dry.  Now you take print paste which is water mixed with sodium alginate thickener and use it to print off the screen.  The print paste re-wets the dried dye and as you pull the squeegee you get a print. You get beautiful abstract and sometimes unpredictable imagery in this process.   That was the first time we had ever done it and the results were striking.  We also had some left over liquid dye mixed up so we played at tray dyeing.    It was a long day but in the end we dyed happy.