Breathe Week - day 4

Today Jess and myself finished dying the base costumes! This meant finishing the series of four dying stages, the remaining of which were all dip dying.

Stage 2

Dip dying 3/4 of shirt - collar first - and 3/4 of trousers or leggings - ankles first - into a mix of dylon dyes Scarlet red, Coffee, Golden Glow and Tangerine

Stage 3

Dip dying the shirt and trousers as above but to 1/2 in a mix of dylon dyes Madonna Blue and Arabian Nights

Stage 4

Finally the last stage was dying the shirt and trousers again as above but the shirts to the tops of the shoulders, and the trousers to 1/4 in a mix of Scarlet Red and Pagoda Red.

rinsing the dye out of the base costumes

In addition to this we were also set to breaking down belts and two of the 'hunter' tribe's cloaks. The belts we broke down with cheese graters, achieving a freyed, worn effect.

For the cloak (below) I used the remainder of the coffee dylon dye, heated in a saucepan, and sponged it on to get the below effect.

 

Pre - Breaking down



Post - Breaking down

I was also proud and happy to see the spades and rakes I made on the builders belts as we were breaking them down - photo below.