The Cat May Have Died

Curiosity may have killed the cat,

but my curiosity produced some great results -

and it was painless!

Above are my results from reapplying sugar syrup resist on my first piece

 pictured here,

and then overdyeing it.

Just as the first time around, I dropped the syrup

from a medicine dropper.

I let the syrup dry overnight, and then I spread thickened dye,

using a sponge roller.

The piece batched for about four hours.

I over-resisted and overdyed all of the pieces pictured in the earlier post,

using the same resist method,

and thickened dyes.

So here they are:

This (above) is the stamped silk,

using my funky homemade stamp

that I showed you the other day.

This is a swirly resist.

And this is the dragonfly piece.

I like that some of the dragonflies have a bit of an edge to them.

a detail shot:

I'm really glad that I took the time to apply the second layers,

both syrup and dye.

I also wondered how the unpure dyes

would react with the sugar syrup resist.

Sometimes their splits are stunning...

and again, I wasn't disappointed!

This is the result of my first photo shown in yesterday's post.

I used Dharma's Better Black.

In all of these photos,

the silk on the left side of the photo was dry when the 

sugar syrup drops were applied.

I sprayed a Urea water solution on the right side,

which kept the silk moist longer,

allowing the resist lines to give way a bit more.

This is Pro Chem's Nickel.

I love that dye on silk,

and I love how the colors separated out:

Below is Pro Chem's Hot Chocolate.

Again, yummy in it's separation!

And this is Pro Chem's Celery:

I love how the dye separated out on the Urea water side of the silk:

Well, that's more than enough posting for one day!

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