Name: melisa

Message: Is there a specific name for Shibori dyeing using pebbles and beans (or similar forms)? 

If there is, I have not seen it. I have seen this method referred to in various places, such as the book Memory on Cloth by Yoshiko Wada, and pictured in Kate Wells's book, Fabric Dyeing & Printing, but it's described there only as bound-resist shibori. The name for bound resists in general is kanoko shibori.

I had imagined that mame-shibori might be the name for this resist method, since "mame" is Japanese for "bean", but have tentatively concluded that mame-shibori probably does not usually include the use of an actual bean or other object, but instead only a repetitive and highly laborious series of ties to make small dots. (The ties are cleverly made to be released easily afterwards.) The result of binding a soybean or marble and then immersion-dyeing is a resisted circle, not a dot.

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