What is your inspiration for some of your work?


Name: Kane
Country: Australia

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Message: Hey, I'm doing an assignment on tie dye, and I was hopeing you could help me. One of my questions, is what was your inspiration for some of your work?

My inspiration for dyeing is my love of color. I particularly love rainbow gradations of color, which are not usually commercially available. I do not like to be limited to the small number of colors and shades available at any given time in the clothing that is being sold. I want to be able to wear whatever color I want, even if the fashion designers have decreed that that color is unstylish this year. (To aee what I mean about the limited palette of colors the designers choose for us each season, look at Pantone's Fashion Color Report for Spring 2010. [PDF])

My other inspiration was when I had a baby boy, and quickly discovered that there was no pretty clothes anywhere being sold for boys to wear. Even the most amateurish tie dyes I produced, when I first started, were vastly prettier than any of the clothes I could find in stores or in mail-order catalogs. It was an excellent introduction to the world of hand dyeing.

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Posted: Thursday - October 29, 2009 at 12:01 PM          

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