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Article: Tie dye is back -- again ; Ancient art turns old and mundane into trendy
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- St. Joseph News-Press
- Article date:
- October 12, 2009
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In a large industrial kitchen at the Western Institute in St.
Joseph, Valerie Jacobson looks like a cross between an artist and a
mad scientist.
"You should always have a white area," Ms. Jacobson says, wearing
purple latex gloves, a blue-and-pink tie-dyed shirt and a long white
apron splattered with all colors of the rainbow. The "white area"
stands out easily among the counters filled with boxes, bottles,
buckets and containers of colored dyes and fabrics. With a large
yellow mop bucket at her side, Ms. Jacobson pulls a knotted orange-
and-brown fabric out of a plastic bag, then rinses it in the sink
with an industrial-size sprayer until the water turns from a muddy
brown to clear. Then ...