the "sueded" look

Essentially, this is just an unevenly dyed piece of cloth. If you were trying to accieve a piece of uniform coloring, you would consider it a failure.  To me, though, it's infinitely more interesting than a solid.  Basically, I'm stuffing too much cloth into a dye bath that's too small, and not stirring the whole mess.  One of the things I love is how the dyes separate; if you look closely here, you can perhaps see several shades of blues and purples, even though the whole cloth was put into just one dye bath.