an experimental day

I've been dyeing and screen printing ties with discharge - the wool delaine is good to work with, it dyes and discharges well. Some have been redyed after discharge which gives a good two tone effect. 

Today, however,  I decided that I wanted to screen print more complex designs so I spent the day experimentally screenprinting.  The image on the left was achieved by applying uneven pressure when pulling the dye paste to give different gradations of print depth. The image on the right wa achieved by printing and overprinting using dyes and discharge.
 

 and oveerprinting a range of colours, images and irregular shapes.