The border design on page [115] shows the result of a definite manner of folding the cloth before tying.
The portion of a scarf illustrated on page [115] shows one large pattern beginning at the center of the scarf. The scarf was gathered or folded from the center and tied at intervals. The color is delicate old rose, especially beautiful for evening wear.
Sometimes small objects, such as marbles or glass beads, are placed at the center of the tied spots and the cloth tied around them.
A very interesting development of tie-dyed work and one which greatly increases the variety of designs is what we may term stick tying, i.e., tying over sticks.
The sticks for this purpose are those commonly used by school children in stick printing. These are sold by all the leading school art supply houses. These sticks are treated so they will not absorb color, which makes them especially suitable for tie-dyed work. They are of different shapes, squares, circles, triangles, oblongs, etc. On these shapes the cloth may be folded in different ways, giving an element of geometrical symmetry, which, however, is always softened in the dye-bath as the color makes its little incursions into the tied spots.
EXAMPLES OF STICK TYING