Perhaps in response to the ubiquity of digital prints, hand-dyeing techniques have been regaining popularity, and none more so than shibori. It’s the Japanese answer to tie-dye, but a whole lot older — it’s said to date to the eighth century. The pattern is created by folding or twisting fabric, wrapping it around a pole or stitching it. The results are patterns that are once geometric and organic.
Shibori is traditionally done in shades of indigo, but contemporary designers have been practicing the ancient technique in an array of colors, as seen everywhere …. Red full article at Nytimes.com
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