HECOL333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Starch, Pigment, Ikat

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Human Ecology
• Course: HECOL333
• Professor: Vlada Blinova

Document Summary

Until the disruption of their lifestyle by white colonists, australian natives rejected the use of clothing. On ritual occasions they decorated their bodies with paint and owers. A process in which fabric is immersed in a solution. Giving fast, lasting colour without extra chemical process. Not fast unless yarn is rated with mordant before dying. Wide range of colours, fast, easy to use but can be toxic and have impact on health and the environment. Design could be created by printing on the cloth with an object or by hand. Stated dried and then cloth dyed with indigo, do not break layer of starch resist. Copper leaves on tool - the number of lines you can draw on pattern. Indonesian tool; small vessel with spout and a handle. Several colours on 1 textile, di erent dye bath several times. Yarns are tie dyed before fabric is woven. Painted the skin and hides they wore (bu alo hides)