Modern Tie Dye

Abi Patten

Informations

• Publié par: Search Press
• Date de parution: 30 juin 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781781269855
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 200 Mo

Extrait

MODERN

An ecofriendly guide to colouring your clothes & accessories

Abi Patten

SEARCH PRESS

Abi Patten, under her trade name ‘AbiDashery’, has been making a living from tie dye full time. Totally selftaught, Abihasbeenhoninghertiedyeskillssince2012.After receiving glowing responses from her family and friends, in 2013 Abi took a leap of faith and opened an Etsy store. As her Etsy shop began to grow, she realized there was a market for upcycled and tiedyed clothing and so, in 2016, she launched her own website. Since then her business has grown, and Abi’s work has appeared online, in magazines and in tiedye kits. Over time Abi has focused on improving her business’ sustainability, and is constantly striving to make her designs as ecoconscious as possible. Abi lives in Durham, UK, with her partner and three cats. Website: www.abidashery.com YouTube:AbiDashery Instagram:@abi_dashery Etsy:www.etsy.com/uk/shop/AbiDashery

MOD ERN TIE DYE

DEDICATION

Dedicated to my dad, Michael, my partner Paul, and in memory of my mam, Susan.

First published in 2022

Search Press Limited Wellwood, North Farm Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN2 3DR

Text copyright © Abi Patten, 2022

Photographs by Mark Davison, Stacy Grant and Juan Hayward

Photographs and design copyright © Search Press Ltd. 2022

All rights reserved. No part of this book, text, photographs or illustrations may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means by print, photoprint, microfilm, microfiche, photocopier, video, internet or in any way known or as yet unknown, or stored in a retrieval system, without written permission obtained beforehand from Search Press.

ISBN: 9781782219903 ebook ISBN: 9781781269855

The Publishers and author can accept no responsibility for any consequences arising from the information, advice or instructions given in this publication.

Readers are permitted to reproduce any of the projects in this book for their personal use, or for the purpose of selling for charity, free of charge and without the prior permission of the Publishers. Any use of the projects for commercial purposes is not permitted without the prior permission of the Publishers.

You are invited to visit the author’s: – website, www.abidashery.com – Instagram, @abi_dashery – YouTube channel, @Abi Dashery – Etsy page, AbiDashery

Suppliers If you have difficulty in obtaining any of the materials and equipment mentioned in this book, then please visit the Search Press website for details of suppliers: www.searchpress.com

Publishers’ note All the stepbystep photographs in this book feature the author, Abi Patten, demonstrating how to dye. No models have been used.

MOD ERN TIE DYE An ecofriendly guide to colouring your clothes and accessories

Abi Patten

SEARCH PRESS

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y name is Abi Patten and I’m a tiedyer living in the beautiful M countryside of County Durham in the northeast of England, UK with my partner, Paul, and our three cats, Marshall, Patsy and Snoopy.

I’m better known under my business name of ‘AbiDashery’, and I have been a tiedyer and upcycler full time for the last nine years. I always wanted to make a living from doing what I loved, but I never had the courage to actually take that leap. When I found myself unemployed in 2014, I knew this was the opportunity I had dreamt of – to carve my own ‘road less travelled’, allowing me to live more independently and to make my living doing something creative. Tie dyeing had been a hobby, so I turned it into a living and started my online store, Abidashery.com, which is still going strong today. You can follow my journey on Instagram, at @ abi_dashery.

Born and raised in the city, in 2020 my partner and I also finally took the decision to stop talking about our dreams of rural living and make them come true by escaping to the country! Now I am fortunate enough to be around nature all the time, and I’m happily able to work outside most days (British weather permitting). Part of the reason I wanted to move to the countryside in the first place was so I could live a more sustainable lifestyle. My partner and I enjoy making or upcycling things ourselves rather than buying them new, and prefer to use nature and its bounty where possible, which ties in nicely with the theme of this book.

Like me, you as a reader are probably conscious of the environment as well as interested in fashion, and would like to create your own unique, ecoconscious clothing on a budget. Tie dye is something anyone can do, whatever their previous crafting experience, and with little equipment needed. The projects in this book give you the opportunity to revamp and recycle your existing wardrobe, which is much kinder to the planet than adding to the 350,000 tonnes of textiles that goes into landfill each year in the UK.

This book includes a range of tiedye techniques that you can follow to make a unique collection of clothing and accessories, as well as extra instructions to make your own dyes at home if you choose to, from items you may already have in your kitchen cupboard. The projects and examples in this book are a way for you to learn both the basic and more advanced techniques of tie dye, before using those techniques as inspiration to create your own individual projects in the future. If you want to learn the secrets to making the tiedye designs you’re seeing trending on the internet right now, then you’re in the right place.

Tie dye is such an enjoyable craft to learn but the most important thing to remember is that it is an organic process – you can control the colours and the method of tying you choose but when it comes to the results, no two pieces will ever be exactly the same, just like us. So, don’t be rigid in your thinking when you’re tie dyeing; trust the process and know that, however it turns out, it will be both beautiful and exactly as it was meant to be. Let go, go with the flow and enjoy seeing how things turn out. I think that’s a pretty good lesson for life too!