Stripes and Candy Cotton and Blockprinted Box TopThis fabric is handpainted with reactive dyes while hanging so it has a very fun drip affect. I also threw some dry dye on it. This leaves each top a little different! The photographed top is the Medium. 100% Cotton voile (sheer and light weight) simple box fit stand out tops. Inspired by the Central and South American huipil, the design is meant to display the pattern of the fabric. With my patterns I find it best to design simple shapes that fit

(dyes used in class

EXCEPT THE CREAM COLORED IN FIRAT IMAGE

A piece of Better Than Jam fabric is adhered to a 6" x 6" birch panel frame

then hand printed with hand carved plate of a "rabbit mask" using water based ink

Each one is different as the dyes used to color the fiber are set with melting snow

Front panel is: Off White 45% Cotton / 55% Linen Hand Printed with teal pixel squares and hand crafted fish hooks

45% Cotton / 55% Linen

but prewashed

scarlet red goliath beetles

The back ground leaves (zelcova) are printed yellow ochre

You can choose to draw or digitally design

Then the fabric after thorough washing is screenprinted by hand with metallic gold firework remnants