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Japanese indigo tie-dye.
Shibori is a Japanese word for a kind of dyeing method. Generally put, it's a kind of tie-dye. Fabric is folded, tied, stitched or sandwiched between wooden blocks. Then it is submerged into a dye bath. When the bundle is unfurled, you get various pattern depending on the method you used to bundle the fabric. Pattern can be geometric or organic, subtly nuanced or sharp. Indigo bath was often used for Shibori method of dyeing.
Itajime shibori is a method where wooden blocks are used to block out certain portion of fabric from accepting dye. Fabric is folded, then...