I made this because I wanted to play with resist and indigo. I had made another shirt using Rit dye, which turned out horribly, and was advised it was because it was a new, unwashed shirt that still had sizing on it. So I took some cheap 1005 cotton shirts and washed them and set them aside for when I got some dye. I used an indigo tie dye kit.
The resist i did with elmers washable gel glue and a syringe with a jaquard tip on it. My original plan was to make fish scales all the way up, but that took too long, so I made a circle and put the fish scales in that instead. The fish scales is one of my favorite traditional Japanese designs, one I’ve used a lot with cobalt on porcelain. Indigo resist is also a traditional Japanese dyeing technique, so there’s a nice synchronicity there.
