tiny auction II.

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YE AUCTION HAS ENDED!

I’ll be contacting winners shortly, stay tuned for more fun….

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$12 – p mcevoy (previous $5 – @davegrady) – Watch Your Step (yellow prototype)
$10 – @tammalee – Watch Your Step (red prototype)
$30 – @twinschick (previous $20 – hk bertman) – I WANNA ROCK (prototype)
$35 – @jadesnake – Ear (prototype)
$10 – @xDiablis – This Is A Test
$30 – hk bertman (previous $25 – @tammalee) – Trial And Error
$35 – @twinschick1 – The Things I Would Tell You Part B (prototype)
$15 – @jadesnake – I WANNA ROCK (construct prototype)

Auction will run until Sunday 7/18 at 9pm sharp. Bids accepted via email michael – at – tinyrun.com and through twitter, @tinyrun (add a #tinyrunauction to your bids please).

Watch Your Step (yellow prototype)
AA Mens/Unisex Large
I think after having made the actual run, and worn my own for a while, that I like this version better. I think at the time I was afraid that the large amount of fray would set people off, and I wanted to echo the sticker even more, and so I worked the edge of it in, which also limited the amount of fray. I love the background fabric on this one.

Watch Your Step (red prototype)
AA Mens/Unisex Large
This is a trial I did to see what this thread would look like stitched out. It’s so difficult to look at spools of variegated or candy cane thread and then to image it in stitch form. This one ended up having less variation than I expected.

I WANNA ROCK (prototype)
AA Ladies Large
This Vader had a little back-staining in the boil I did after the dye bath, and so the whites of the background and highlights are not as strong as in the actual run, and not even as white as they appear to me in this picture. As with the other black batiks, the shirt shifts more toward a very very dark purple cast.

Ear (prototype)
AA Ladies Medium
This was the ear I started before I thought to include the screen printed black ink of the hair outline of The Things I Would Tell You Part A. As with the other black batiks, the shirt shifts more toward a very very dark purple cast.

This Is A Test
AA Mens Medium
This was an actual test, where I was trying to determine the viability of an older dye bath to be used after its ‘prime’. The result is very faint and you can just make out that in what appears to be a large ‘E’ are the words ‘this is a test’. I then went ahead and played with layering more wax and dye baths on it just for fun, ending with the same black dye bath. As with the other black batiks, the shirt shifts more toward a very very dark purple cast.

Trial And Error
AA Mens/Unisex Large Vneck
A while back I noticed that I always had particular ideas to achieve when approaching batik and I decided to just mess around. SO I layered the messing around with several applications of wax and dye and this was the result. Some color would have been nice, but I had/have been doing grays and blacks for a while and this one was thrown in with the others. As with the other black batiks, the shirt shifts more toward a very very dark purple cast.

The Things I Would Tell You Part B (prototype)
AA Mens/Unisex Small
This is the final version of this, as I imagined it back when I had the idea to combine screen printing with batik. It’s something I’d like to try again, but with different art I think. I’m fairly pleased with how it turned out, but wish I had taken less of a ‘wing it’ approach with the details in the ear. I also wish I could offer it as an actual tiny run, but I just can’t even think to try to recreate it: first screen printing, and then batiking. Considering the delays I face when I try to do one at a time… Again, as with the other black batiks, the shirt shifts more toward a very very dark purple cast.

I WANNA ROCK (construct prototype)
AA Ladies Large
Me just messing around? This is a shirt cut and sewn onto another shirt. Very messy unfinished seam. I really just wanted to see what would happen. As it appears it has already been washed, so it doesn’t look to fray much, but how it will wear over time and how well the stitch would hold I have no idea. It could be worked on and cleaned up a bit by those who feel industrious. Note that it goes all the way around. Also, ladies, be aware that the location of the closed fist when worn seems to be in an…interesting spot.