Shibori is infinitely more than the tie-dye that became well known in the late 1960s.
Shibori can be used not only to create patterns on cloth but to turn fabric from a two-dimensional into a three-dimensional object..
Yet more than half of the known techniques--in which cloth is in some way tied, clamped, folded, or held back during dyeing, to keep some areas from taking color--originated in Japan.
Shaped-resist dyeing techniques have been done for centuries in every corner of the world.
Shibori is infinitely more than the tie-dye that became well known in the late 1960s