Dye Samples for Dress #2

I wanted to see if a marbled/variegated color would be better under the lace and silk net than a solid color. I tried a number of different resist methods (bunching and tying the fabric together, twisting it onto itself, twisting around a pole, tying around a pole, etc.). I found that the twisting and bunching methods seemed to give me the better results.

For the colors, I used an Alphonso Mucha painting for color inspiration. I wanted to capture the sophisticated pastel colors present in the illustration. These colors were also used in the iris embroideries I have been working on, but I felt the natural silk background was too much of a contrast with the colored silk and cotton threads of the embroidery.