Tonight as so many nights lately, I’ll be ironing wax out of my last dyed batik. The season has been very unpredictable, but warmer sunny days allowed me to finish dyeing many pieces outdoors.
Dyeing the fabric outdoors is ideal and I have my flower sink for you to see where I like to rinse the excess dye out of my batik pieces. I also wanted to show you some stages of the batik “Magic Frogs Rising” through the pond, up out of the earth below. See an early image of wax applied after two previous dyebaths. Then a close up of the design before it’s last dyebath ( see the heavy wax layer). A close up of the batik in the final dyebath on the porch is seen in a long shallow dye tray. The long dye tray keeps this large piece from becoming over crackled. The “Magic Frogs Rising” batik is 26 by 40 inches. Finally, here the top of this batik is seen after the wax is ironed out between plain newsprint.
The completed piece will be seen in a blog to come.