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Year 10 Visual Design
Shibori Workshop
Last Tuesday Year 10 Visual Design students
participated in a Shibori workshop with
designers Karen Davies and Pepa Martin from
‘Shibori’. Pepa and Karen lead the class in a
demonstration of some traditional Shibori
dying techniques. Shibori is a Japanese term
and it refers to the act of compressing fabric
to make a resist. Student experimented with
using blocks to create repeated shapes, with
binding, clamping, folding and tying fabric to
create a range of experimental works on fabric,
T-shirts, scarves and other wearables.
This unit of work is designed to complement
studies in fashion design. In practical lessons
this term students are screen printing bags
and creating contemporary designs for t-shirts
as part of the term-long focus on fashion.
Students enjoyed the hands on nature of
the workshop and the process involved in
creating a hand dyed piece. There was much
anticipation as each item came out of the
indigo dye vat. Thank you to our two visiting
designers, Pepa and Karen, for sharing their
passion for Shibori with the class.
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