I could tell when I put my warp into a hot water bath to scour before dyeing, that water was getting under my bundles. But this is what I like about trying something new with no purpose in mind but to see how it goes, and what happens...there's no pressure, and I often end up making new discoveries. So on to the dye bath!
Now this is so cool. I think I'm going to like making ikat. Binding took a long time (and I know that once I am making finer patterns it will take even longer), but I am already thinking it was worth it. Falling in love.
The warp makes it out of the dye bath with resists, despite my slack binding. There appears to be varying levels of seepage under the bindings, but that might just be the outer layer of threads. Also, one thing I thought would happen didn't: I thought the areas between where I bound two sections close together would resist a bit, just because the threads wouldn't have much room to move around and the dye wouldn't be able to penetrate fully. This didn't happen at all!
I can't wait to get the plastic wrap off the bound areas and see what's really underneath.
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