{"id":22516,"date":"2016-09-01T06:28:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T13:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/?p=22516"},"modified":"2016-10-14T05:26:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T12:26:07","slug":"wabash-the-special-indigo-dyed-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/denim-fabric-developments\/wabash-the-special-indigo-dyed-look\/22516","title":{"rendered":"Wabash- The Special Indigo Dyed Look"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wabash<\/strong> – Indigo Discharge Dyeing , refers to the process of creating patterns and prints on a fabric base that is dyed in Indigo. The phrase discharge dyeing is almost an oxymoron, because the process by which a Wabash print is created is actually not dyeing but removing parts of the already dyed indigo fabric to create a pattern or print. The base indigo dyed fabric goes through an oxidation process to remove parts of the dye in the form of a pattern. <\/p>\n

Wabash looks like quite a formal fabric, but in fact it was commonly used for work wear from the early 1800s through to the early 1900s, very often as uniforms for the massive US railroads work force.  Finding out a lot about Wabash is very difficult, but we believe there were 2 ways in which the dots were originally \u00e2\u20ac\u0153applied\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to the base fabric: <\/p>\n