The picture above is a shirt I'm working on. For Mokume Shibori you sew a lot of parallel lines on the item, pull the threads up tight then dye. I have this shirt almost done sewing. The purple strip along the side is some scrap fabric I'm using to hide the knots. Otherwise you get little dots up the side when you dye it. I'll put another one up the other side when I pull up the threads.