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        The above are all examples of salt technique (stretched work). The last is on crêpe de Chine, the

    others on habotai.

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        A sarong (habotai) and a camisole dress (crêpe de Chine) and shawl/sarong (habotai) in one of my

    informal, shibori-related techniques.

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        Two examples of 45" x 45" (114 cm x 114 cm) scarf pieces in one of my Aussie Shibori techniques

    (Rose-window variation).

        Here, it has been combined with salt technique, but, because of the setting method (microwave), the

    effect is different from that in stretched work. You can see the effect by enlarging the images. It's that

    paler speckling and those darker-edged shapes.

        And, because of the folding of the fabric, mirror-image salt effects are guaranteed!

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        An example (detail) of another Aussie Shibori technique (the Donut, a variation of arashi shibori on a

    flexible core) done on fabric of the same size as 7 and 8. The navette or network shapes are typical of

    the method. This is a good example of the way it is possible with this method to use together colours

    which might usually produce mud - without doing so. Here, they are a poppy red and turquoise.

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        Examples of another Aussie Shibori technique which I call Rorshach technique, as it gives mirror-

    image shapes.

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