Silk Blend Shift Dress // Acorn Tan Size:LARGE

Silk Blend Shift Dress // Acorn Tan Size:LARGEOne of kind all natural dresses from Better Than Jam using own hand printed and dyed fabrics. This shape is an easy wear for most body types. It's generous in size with a scoop neck and dropped rear hem. All fabrics are hand dyed and printed in runs of 5 yards and never replicated, resulting in each piece being a complete original. No two will be a like. Linen cotton is medium in weight and perfect for fall, while the silk blend gauze is light weight

Linen/cotton fabric hand dyed "anti dyed" twice using shibori resist method so the base fiber has a lot of visual texture to it

both back and front

Better Than Jam handprinted textile

First I hand "anti dyed" the linen in color remover using shibori folding and sewing techniques

with line dry suggested

and blockprinted with nubien ibex horn in black ink and stamped with textured polka dots in pink

A piece of Better Than Jam fabric is adhered to a 8" x 8" birch panel frame

grey almond shells

it is then silkscreened with green Mandelbrot fractals and purple chestnuts

to learn how to bundle dye

each student is welcome to try a bit of wax resist

4-6 are made from the same printed yardage