Memory on cloth : shibori now

Shibori is infinitely more than the tie-dye that became well known in the late 1960s.

Shaped-resist dyeing techniques have been done for centuries in every corner of the world.

Yet more than half of the known techniques-in which cloth is in some way tied, clamped, folded, or held back during dyeing, to keep some areas from taking color - originated in Japan.

Shibori can be used not only to create patterns on cloth but to turn fabric from a two-dimensional into a three-dimensional object.

The word is used here to refer to any process that leaves a memory on cloth' -a permanent record,'