The shibori cloth I have been working on has been released. I took the gathered brown piece and tried to discharge the color with thiourea dioxide. It didn't work at all. I tried three times and, although it looked like it was lightening in process, once it got washed there was no difference at all. I am wondering if there is something wrong with my thiourea dioxide. It works well as a reducer in my indigo pots, but now that I think about it, I haven't had success discharging with it in a long time. It's supposed to last forever, but maybe it doesn't. Anyway, when the color didn't disappear, I turned to Clorox and just bleached the thing. That took the brown out all right. I wish I remembered to photograph it before I put it into indigo. After three dips of three minutes each this is the blue I got.
As usual, when I released the stitching I was surprised by what the cloth looked like. The pattern was the usual wobbly dental x-ray, but I thought the brown left in the cloth would make it look more dark and dull. Instead, the brown "teeth" read as pale yellow. The cloth is brighter and lighter than I expected. More summery, just in time for summer. It isn't a very elaborate design for all the time it took to put it in, but it should be a useful cloth. Now I have to hem it.
