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Fabric Modification and Distressing with Spray Dye

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Jesus Christ Superstar (1993) was an all-painted show, this time with laundry spray bottles of Rit dye. This costume for Mary Magdalene has six different colors on it to get a gradient apricot tone.

This close-up of the High Priest from the same show shows how the six colors of spray render the color and texture rich for almost no cost.
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 A Russian Christmas Tale (1990) had white quilted jackets made with a cheesecloth surface. We then used solutions of Rit dye and diluted fabric paints in laundry sprayers to make a dimensional, "faded" and distressed gray-black with a slight purple tint for King, a Gulag prisoner. Fiber-fun glitter paints with long-fiber glitter was caked in splotches to the shoulders and highlight areas to simulate ice crystals forming on the jacket in the cold. pict0005.jpg (99542 bytes) pict0006.jpg (99654 bytes) pict0007.jpg (80823 bytes) pict0008.jpg (100617 bytes)

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A shirt for the dead soldier in Woyzeck (1991), distressed only with 3-4 colors of Rit spray dye.

woyzeck2_small.jpg (4656 bytes) The Drum Major in Woyzeck painted with fabric paint and 3 colors of Rit spray dye. Interestingly we could not get Prussian blue fabric or gold colored fabric anyplace in Fairbanks that Fall. This tunic was made of powder blue flannel with scraps of gold felt (the closest available equivalents in town) and we merely painted the uniforms Prussian blue. For many more pictures of dyeing in this show go to the page on Woyzeck.

  suits23.jpg (76877 bytes) suits24.jpg (72100 bytes) suits25.jpg (61980 bytes) Here is one of the garments mentioned in the Cookbook, the mud and excrement covered shirt from Curse of the Starving Class (1988), artificial excrement is made from equal parts Phlex glue, acrylic paint and sawdust. A shirt for the dead soldier in Woyzeck (1991), distressed only with 3-4 colors of Rit spray dye.  

A Russian Christmas Tale (1990) had white quilted jackets made with a cheesecloth surface. We then used solutions of Rit dye and diluted fabric paints in laundry sprayers to make a dimensional, "faded" and distressed gray-black with a slight purple tint for King, a Gulag prisoner. Fiber-fun glitter paints with long-fiber glitter was caked in splotches to the shoulders and highlight areas to simulate ice crystals forming on the jacket in the cold.  woyzeck1.jpg (53417 bytes) xmas1.jpg (73219 bytes) xmas2.jpg (29059 bytes) xmas3.jpg (53639 bytes)  

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