Soy Wax

Today is the monthly WAV meeting (textile artists) in Billings. I am scheduled to give the presentation and I will be doing so on how to use soy wax in your work.  The two images I have posted here were both created in the past few days using soy wax but with very different techniques. The reddish egret was painted with Dye-na-flow paints, using the wax as a typical resist. There were numerous steps of applying wax, painting, removing the wax, reapplying wax elsewhere and so on and so on. The geometric piece below was created more in the way of a typical batik, applying wax, dyeing with procion dyes, applying more wax, dyeing with a darker color of dye and so on. Both methods are easy, fun and a great way to produce one-of-a-kind fabric!