This was embroidered onto muslin I'd bought already tea-dyed - I subsequently stained it blue, trying to balance (with difficulty) flat color with "tie-dye" to get something I though was reminiscent of the type of chemical effects present in the original:
(from the New York Public Library)I tried to sketch out a faithful representation to start with, but smudging of the dressmaker's pencil encouraged improvisation.
I plan to do a series of 12 or 15 of these...
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