{"id":509,"date":"2014-01-29T12:33:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T02:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bindandfold.com\/?p=509"},"modified":"2014-01-29T12:33:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T02:33:20","slug":"a-new-old-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bindandfold.com\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"A new (old) chair"},"content":{"rendered":"

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About 6.5 years ago, I spotted this old chair in a vintage shop in Brunswick that is now a cafe. I decided I HAD to have it and I was going to recover it. Coz let’s face it, it started out it’s life with me as pretty damn ugly.<\/p>\n

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A damn ugly chair. Please excuse the mess<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I meant to finally recover this thing, LAST summer. Thankfully though, I didn’t and I now have a very lovely chair in my lounge room.<\/p>\n

Don’t be fooled by the simplicity of this dye job. I spent 3 40 degree days outside, drinking buckets of water and dipping this thing in the vat, oxidising it, unwrapping it, washing it, not liking the colour, meticulously refolding and so on. I went around and around and around with it.<\/p>\n

After I’d dumped it in the vat about 20 times and most of the Indigo was still not penetrating the fabric (it’s very thick canvas) I decided to take my chance and dye over it with Procion dyes. Success!! Sure I could have left that part out and let everyone think I’m a world class Indigo master, but well I’m an honest gal. I will say that most of the colour came from being in the vat though. It just needed tweaking.<\/p>\n

It came out amazeballs though, right? Arashi the cat thinks so. He jumped right up there as soon as he could.<\/p>\n

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Arashi, enjoying MY chair. Get off my chair, cat!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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