Day 3

last thing on day 2 saw much feverish bundling so we could get extra pieces into the dye pots in order to have more surprises waiting for us in the morning........ bundling on the long sticks is great as you have a handle for easy removal from the pots ........... some clever people even put beads, pieces of fabric etc on the end to make for easy identification.........there is nothing worse than a misplaced bundle............

also at the end of day 2 India had made up a surprise bundle for the pot.... so after we had all finished admiring our own handiwork, she proceeded to unwrap for us .......

it was an old japanese iron incense burner with a decorative lid to cover the pot - the bowl was filled with a heap of threads, then cloth and leaves bundled tightly around the whole thing..........

there was much anticipation to see what this exotic piece would produce..............

voila! ............more general wandering around appreciating what others had achieved, including these pieces below from Helen, for whom the workshop was her first foray into eco colour but by all accounts, definitely won't be her last............

after which it was off to catch up on another technique or two to add to our bag of tricks.............

by now it was time for more "shirt skirt" sewing so that we would have something to take to the sea the next day for premordanting in the salt water