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All in Natural Dyeing
This summer, I started a Natural Dye series. The initial July 6 post, Planning and Fiber Preparation, was followed by five posts detailing my five days of actual dyeing. It ended with the Finale post on August 2. In September, I gave you a sneak peek of the dyed cotton on the Loom. Today’s post brings you to the completion of the Natural Dye Project.
What a fun five days of dyeing! Today I’ll show you the whole palette!
It’s Dye Day 3! On today’s menu is madder and quebracho, as well as a bit of forage into overdyeing.
To start Dye Day 2, I took the yarn out of the weld dye bath it had rested in overnight.
This is also cochineal dye day.
I’ve done the planning and the fiber prep; now it’s time to start dyeing!
First on today’s list is to dye with weld.
My last post, My Dye Studio, talked about participating in a 10-week online Natural Dyeing Study Group at the School of Sweet Georgia. I gave you a little tour of my dye studio and the equipment and tools I use for dyeing.
Since then, I have been planning the project to ultimately use what I will dye and preparing the fibers by scouring and mordanting.
This summer, I’m participating in a 10-week online Natural Dyeing Study Group at the School of Sweet Georgia. This week’s content covered preparing your space and tools. and provided a great opportunity to inventory and reorganize my dyeing equipment and supplies. While the studio is looking so tidy, I took some photos to share with you.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted on natural dyeing, so today I thought I would write about dyeing with hibiscus.
Hibiscus is an interesting natural dye material as the color(s) achieved are highly variable; so much so that ‘surprise’ would be my key descriptor.
I needed to dye some alpaca for the neck warmer I will be knitting as part of 'Alpaca-The Mini Series'. Since I haven't done a 'Let's Dye . . .' post in awhile, I thought this would be a great project to try out madder from my dye garden.
Earlier this month, in my first post of 2018, I shared my thoughts and plans for the coming year at Flora & Fiber. I've put the proverbial pencil to paper to bring those plans to life.
And that brings me to 'Alpaca - The Mini Series'.
I haven't written about dyeing in awhile. Now with Autumn fast approaching, I've noticed the Black Walnuts are starting to drop, prompting me to sit down and compose this post.
This is Part 2 of a two part series on Shibori dyeing.
Shibori is a Japanese dyeing technique that creates dye-resists in the cloth by folding, pleating, and/or bunching the fabric. These folds are then bound with thread, clamps or rubber bands, preventing the dye from penetrating.
In woven shibori, instead of rubber bands or clamps to create the resist, various stitching methods are applied.
This is Part 1 of a 2 part series on dyeing fabric using Shibori techniques.
Shibori is a Japanese dyeing technique that creates dye-resists in the cloth by folding, pleating, and/or bunching the fabric. These folds are then bound with stitching, clamps or rubber bands, preventing the dye from penetrating. Any fabric that is exposed and not compressed by the resist will be dyed while the resist area will remain white (or the color of the underlying cloth).
Just a quick post. I've been doing more natural dyeing with Marigold and overdyeing with Saxon Blue.
Saxon Blue is a dye made from a solution of indigo in sulfuric acid.
Last week I had the wonderful opportunity to teach three natural dyeing workshops at the SC Jamboree hosted by the Lexington County Master Gardeners. This year's theme was 'Let's Go Native', so I fit right in with my presentation of 'A Rainbow in Your Garden-Natural Dyes'.
