Hand-Painted Kimono Dress

摘要

Mary Testen recently decided to make a career change and is studying occupational therapy, but her first love and career path was sewing. Mary worked in textiles and apparel for six years before she made the choice to go back to school. She still loves to design and sew and is looking forward to having more free time for these pursuits after she graduates. Mary designed this dress as a final project in a textile design course. After drafting the dress pattern, she drew the textile surface design directly onto the pattern. She used gutta resist to copy the surface design onto white sandwashed silk charmeuse. She then hand-painted the fabric with silk dyes, steamed the fabric to set the dyes, and washed out the resist and excess dye.