Stand and Pour Fabric Dyeing

If you have been following my blog, you know I’m on a fabric dyeing kick. I still had some dye concentrate left after my low immersion dyeing so I had to try something else.

In Frieda Anderson’s “Fabric to Dye For” she covers Stand and Pour fabric dyeing technique which I thought would be fun to try.

Closeup of Stand and Pour Fabric Dyeing
Closeup of Stand and Pour Dyed Fabric

First I set up the piece to dye. I pinned the fabric at the top to the lovely dyeing board Kathy gave us in her screen printing class. I also put a piece of fabric under it in a tray to catch excess dye.

Set up for Stand and Pour Fabric Dyeing
Set up for Stand and Pour Fabric Dyeing

I put my dyes into squeeze bottles for this fabric dyeing technique. Then I squirted the dye on the fabric.

Squirting dye onto top of fabric for fabric dyeing
Squirting dye onto top of fabric

This is how the fabric looked when I got done.

Stand and Pour Fabric Dyeing
Stand and Pour Fabric Dyeing

Then I waited for 24 hours. After rinsing, washing and drying, this is what I came up with.

Stand and Pour Fabric Dyeing
Stand and Pour Dyed Fabric

Here is a closeup again of the material.

Closeup of Stand and Pour Fabric Dyeing
Closeup of Stand and Pour Dyed Cloth

And here is the material that was in the tray catching the extra dye.

Stand and Pour Fabric Dyeing

I thought this was an interesting technique. Next time I will drip the paint down differently. I’m not sure why I felt like I had to drip them in wide strips. It would have been prettier to blend them. Frieda’s sample in the book looked more like a watercolor – absolutely beautiful.

I do like the dripping catcher – interesting with the folds and all.

Have you ever tried this?

Well, that was fun, but all of the fabric dyeing for right now. So much more to blog about.