how are these skirts made?

[maria86004]

I am not quite sure if this is a folding question or a technique question.
I am not sure how they got this effect.
I know how to tie circles and the basic accordion fold and how to scrunch of the fabric so I have some idea. 
It just doesn't look like the dye was concentrated and squirted on.  It looks like fabric that has been immersed.  I know it couldn't have been immersed as the background is black.

Does anyone see what is baffling me?  The circles for example do not look squirted on.  The patterns remind me of when I take a white piece of fabric, rubber band it and then immerse it in one color.    Squirted on dye makes a different pattern and you don't see the rubber band marks.

Any ideas?

[maria86004]

I forgot to provide a link to the photo.  Here it is

https://picasaweb.google.com/mary86004/TieDye?authkey=Gv1sRgCN2Rk9j29LeshAE#5631861268600869394

[pburch]

That style is from Merlin Silk's business, Thai Dye, which imports tie-dyes from Thailand. He describes it as the mudmee style. Here are some links to discussions of it on the Dye Forum on my site. (I thought there was some discussion here on iTieDye, too, but I can't find it by using the search function.)

• ? on Thai dye technique
• I need help/information
• Books on Thai Style of Tie Dye?

-Paula

[maria86004]

Thank you Paula.  I took a quick look at your links and I think I can figure out what to do.
Thanks for solving the mystery.

[tiedyejudy]

Maria, if you figure out the mystery, let us know!  A number of us have been experimenting with mudmee techniques and would love to learn their secrets!
Judy

[maria86004]

I bought a bunch of flour sack dish towels at Sam's club and will experiment.  I will post anything that comes out good.

[Jaja]

Dyed by Melanie Debo. I love most of her models.

[pburch]

It looks like the same dye-discharge-dye process that Carter Smith has used.

[maria86004]

I read many of the links that have been given to me on the forum about my original question of how those skirts were made.   I couldn't figure out how they got the rubber band patterns and why it looked like the skirts were immersed in dye as opposed to squirted.
Usually when you immerse the dye, you aren't going to get all of those colors.
This may not exactly be the mudmee technique as I did not experiment with any dye discharge.   I just wanted the many colors and the cool rubber band patterns. 
So I soaked the fabric in soda ash solution and wrung it out and laid it flat.  Then I squirted on several colors in stripes.   I put it in a plastic bag and washed it the next day.
Then I tied the whole piece off with rubber bands and immersed it in a pale of black dye just like in solid color dying.  I have attached a photo.

[maria86004]

I am trying to attach the photo from previous email.  
Can someone help me here?
I clicked on the icon to insert photo
Then I put a link to the photo that I have posted on picasa where the cursor was between the words img.   It doesn't seem to have appeared in my posting.   Does anyone know how to do this?


I guess I can just provide a link:
https://picasaweb.google.com/mary86004/August292011#5646383694446348082

I am modifying this email.  I have figured out how to insert an image. so here it is.
Now that I know how to  make this type of design, in the future, I won't make a bunch of goofy stripes to overdye in black.  I will make a more interesting pattern.  But I like the general concept.

[tiedyejudy]

Re: posting pix, I just tried the image insert and here's the result:

I went out to my blog and copied the url and pasted it between the img brackets.  Maria, you have your image on picasa, right?  just go to the image and click on it, then copy the url from the top of your screen, come back here, click on the image icon and paste the url inbetween ... it should work.

[maria86004]

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WAbUN4-UKvE/Tlv8DeUIRzI/AAAAAAAAAPI/_UhJ6Nhb8Tc/mudmee%2525202.jpg

Thanks Judy.   I clicked on the picture that  I posted on picasa, as you suggested,  which made all of the difference.  Before I went to the page it was on and copied the url from the top of the internet page.  This time I right clicked on the picture and clicked on a choice to copy the location and pasted that url in which was different.  It was a url for the photo itself, not the whole page.