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#dyeing

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Kake

I dyed a t-shirt for bob using low-water immersion after tying it in little bunches with water-soluble thread. The idea of using the water-soluble thread was to avoid white marks — I wanted it to just be “different” in some way in the tied parts, but not to block the dye completely. (Also I didn’t want to have to untie it all afterwards.)

The low-water immersion worked nicely to split out the constituent red (magenta) and blue (cobalt blue) parts of the dye, giving lots of different purples, and the little tied bunches ended up looking like cells or neurons (according to bob).

Photos here of the tied t-shirt before going in the dye bath, plus a close-up and not-close-up of the results. bob has a photo of him wearing it which no doubt he will post in this thread at some point.

A white cotton t-shirt tied up in little bunches, looking a bit like closely-spaced bantu knots, or maybe like the fleece of a toy sheep. It’s sitting on a cutting mat with metric markings showing that its size has shrunk considerably from the pre-tying state.
The same t-shirt after dyeing with a custom-mixed purple dye. The little tied knots have transformed into wobbly circles with pale circumferences and darker centres. The dye has split (as was intended) giving a variegation of different shades of purple.
A close-up of the dyed t-shirt, showing how the variegation follows the crinkles that were formed when the t-shirt was tied.
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Kake

I did some dyeing for the first time since November! My second attempt at a green (#10 in the photo), and my first attempt at an orange (#11).

I’ve also added a photo of this green next to my previous attempt at a green (#9), which shows how much difference it can make to use a different blue in the mix. The blue and yellow are in the same proportions in each batch, but the cerulean blue and cobalt blue give very different results. (#9 looks nicer here than under most lighting conditions — non-overcast daylight suits it, but most of the time it looks kinda ugly.)

And finally a photo of my orange and my latest green along with an extremely failed attempt at a purple (#1) — I like these three together and am now pondering quilting patterns for them.

Two small bundles of fabric tied up with thin black string and labelled with slips of paper. The one on the left is a lightly variegated bright green, and its label reads: Dye job #10, white cotton poplin, 3% 004 lemon yellow, 1% 070 cerulean blue. The other is a more heavily variegated light/deep reddish orange, and its label reads: Dye job #11, white cotton poplin, 3.5% 004 lemon yellow, 0.5% 034 magenta. Some mysterious force in your mind tells you that the 004, 034, and 070 are the numbers of those particular dyes in the Jacquard Procion MX labelling system, and the percentages are the weights of each dye (as a proportion of the weight of fabric) used to make these colours.
The bright green fabric from the previous photo next to a darker, muddier green with the label: Dye job #9, white cotton poplin, 3% 004 lemon yellow, 1% 076 cobalt blue. The two greens go together quite nicely in this light, which is indirect daylight.
The bright green and orange fabrics from the first photo, with a third one which despite being a deep variegated pink has a label reading: Dye job #1, white cotton poplin, 4% 050 deep purple. (There is nothing deep purple about it.) The colour combination is reminiscent of kids’ sweets, or perhaps of fruit in a videogame.
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Petra van Cronenburg

Making a mess in the kitchen. I normally dye outside in summer. But I finally want to work with these fabric strips that are too white for the project. So far, I've only dyed paper with this mixture (for days in the sun). I'm curious to see if it will work.

Tip: If you have tea too old to drink, they give a great dye for most papers and natural textiles!

A look inside a white bowl: white strips of fabric float in a cherry-red solution of concentrated old mallow and hibiscus tea. Some blue mallow flowers swim on the surface.
#Dyeing#EcoDye#Plantdye
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martiAn_illustration

Hand-dyeing post 3 of 3: We still had some skeins left, so I blanched madder chips and dyed cotton in the blanching liquid (left, top); then made a dye bath (left, bottom).
Image 2 shows the difference between blanching liquid (orangey, left) and dye bath (red, right). Image 3 shows a closeup of madder on 4ply - I love this colour!

photo of 3 balls of cotton and wool dyed orange-red hues. The wool is a more saturated shade than the cotton.
closeup of two balls of cotton; the left is more orange in colour, the right one more red.
closeup of stripey 4ply in a beautiful rich scarlet red colour.
#FibreArts#FiberArts#dyeing
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martiAn_illustration

Dyeing Part 2 of 3: We had some blanks left, so I continued to play at home using natural dyes.
Top left: Gaywool Watercrest overdyed with calendula; middle left: logwood. Bottom Left: I tried to make an indigo vat but was too impatient. I overdyed the 4ply indogo (bottom left) with logwood, interesting reaction.
Right: closeups of logwood on 4ply (top) and logwood (bottom).

photo of 6 miniskeins of wool (left) and cotton (right) dyed a salmon pink (top), brown and purple tones (middle), and steel blue and grey (bottom).
closeup of a brown-blue striped ball of wool dyed with logwood.
photo of a purple ball of cotton dyed with logwood.
#FibreArts#FiberArts#dyeing
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Karen Strickholm

@ladylambs Hi Ana, and welcome! Love your mitts and love your kitty cat. Mastodon is a cool place in many ways - no advertising, no algorithms, no corporate overlords. Your experience here will be shaped by who you follow, and by the hashtags you use and follow. Here are a bunch of fiber arts ones, to get you going! 😊🧶😊

#Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crochet #Weaving #Dyeing #Spinning #HandSpinning #Embroidery #Felting #Crafts #HandMade

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Karen Strickholm

@asta Hi there, I do! Suggest following bunch of relevant tags. Follow people who post with those tags - you can always unfollow later. Also, once a day I check out all posts on #Knitting and follow anyone new to me there, like you. 😊 This is how you curate your feed here. Have fun! Here are a bunch of tags to check out...

#Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crochet #Weaving #Dyeing #Spinning #HandSpinning #Embroidery #Felting #Crafts #HandMade

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