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Wool
dyeing. Mixing colors in one pot on top of the wool. Also known as
rainbow dyeing. |
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The
cooking equipment (aka turkey cooker). |
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Et Voila.
Color. |
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My
classes in natural
dyeing (using plant or insect dye stuff) usually featured 3 dye pots
with different pre and post mordants to obtain a range of colors. |
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Class
sized equipment. Lots of buckets! |
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Yarns
ready to dye after the mordanting. |
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Make
sure there's a label. |
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The
washing out and clean up always takes time. Many hands are welcome. |
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Natural
dyes produce wonderful colors but are very sensitive to water quality. |
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At
Colour Congress at
Ames Iowa, I took a workshop from Carol Lee, "wrap it and cook it".
Here is one of my scarves layed out with mushrooms and other good stuff. |
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The
scarf from above is on the left. The mushrooms created the red color. |
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When Sarah
Kadolph came to town we did a shibori (tie resist) workshop at Judi
Arndt's dye studio/garage. |
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Workshop
results dyed with Cutch. |
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Indigo
was another adventure, especially in the cold weather. |
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I
participated in Sandy's adventure of controlled dyeing. Again, many
hands really helped with this enormous task. |
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A
few of the color mix samples. |