Sunday, July 09, 2006

DYEING WITH INDIGO USING THREE DIFFERENT PASTES


Stencil of Plovers by Atsuko Yoshida












Japanese rice paste: Rice flour mixed with rice bran and lime.












Chinese stencil paste: Soy flour and lime.






Indonesian paste: Ground nuts (peanuts) and lime called katjang batik from Batavia (Djakarta), recipe from a citation in a "A History of Dyed Textiles" by Stuart Robinson, MIT Press, 1969, p. 74.

I used "Skippy" peanut butter mixed with lime.