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waxed & dyed 1997; last remnants of wax removed 1998
Here is a much larger shirt, size 10-12, I made for my
older son, Will. The batiking was done the same way as on the
preceding two pages (Peter's fish garment and cat garment).
Also shown are three details of the shirt(scanned in directly, at 60 pixels per inch). The colors, on my own monitor at least, are much truer in the details than in the snapshot of my son wearing the short. The shirt is actually more green than teal. There is a large manta ray on the front, and two sharks on the back--the one across the shoulders is obviously a hammerhead; I think the other down near the hips is a dogfish, but I may have forgotten. The method was the same as for the previous two pages, part of the same batch. There's a lot more unwaxed area on this shirt than on the little snap-crotch baby shirts.
This shirt should last much longer than the baby clothes on the previous
page--it's a 6.1 ounce/yard Hanes Beefy Tee.
I'm tired of having my
work shredded before it's been worn a hundred times, so quality is important in
clothing to dye.
To see the fabric in much greater detail, click on the images.
On the next page are some examples of tie dyeing.
Page created: August 4, 1998
Last updated: July 13, 2006
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