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Colouring from Nature: September 2011
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Adding colour from natural pigments one skein at a time. Wednesday, September 28, 2011. Colouring the long way. If you've followed my other blog http:/ doespins.blogspot.com/. You'll know that as a long time spinner, dyer, weaver,crocheter etc that I have dyed many of my yarns with both synthetic dyes and natural dyes. I have decided to create a new second blog celebrating these dyes and my journey with them. My mordant of choice now like many dyers is alum although I do use copper sulphate occassionally.
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Colouring from Nature: October 2011
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Adding colour from natural pigments one skein at a time. Friday, October 21, 2011. So last week I had a sort out of a few yarns that I dyed previously with exhaust cochineal and also soaked the pre mordanted yarns I prepared earlier (a few weeks ago with alum). Most of it is alpaca or alpaca blends. I rinsed the skeins thoroughly. They are hanging outside my dye shed to dry. The extracts I used were logwood from Renaissance Dyeing. Overdyeing pale cochineal and teal. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I live 20...
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Colouring from Nature: Some sample dyeing
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Adding colour from natural pigments one skein at a time. Friday, October 21, 2011. So last week I had a sort out of a few yarns that I dyed previously with exhaust cochineal and also soaked the pre mordanted yarns I prepared earlier (a few weeks ago with alum). Most of it is alpaca or alpaca blends. I rinsed the skeins thoroughly. They are hanging outside my dye shed to dry. The extracts I used were logwood from Renaissance Dyeing. Overdyeing pale cochineal and teal. November 9, 2011 at 11:32 PM. I live ...
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Colouring from Nature: Colouring the long way
http://doespins2.blogspot.com/2011/09/colouring-long-way.html
Adding colour from natural pigments one skein at a time. Wednesday, September 28, 2011. Colouring the long way. If you've followed my other blog http:/ doespins.blogspot.com/. You'll know that as a long time spinner, dyer, weaver,crocheter etc that I have dyed many of my yarns with both synthetic dyes and natural dyes. I have decided to create a new second blog celebrating these dyes and my journey with them. My mordant of choice now like many dyers is alum although I do use copper sulphate occassionally.
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