Eco dyeing the Nanoose Guild way
by Elaine on Dec.19, 2011, under Blog Posts
On November 10th, the Nanoose Weavers and Spinners guild met for their monthly meeting. We went to the Bradley Centre in Coombs, rather than the meeting being hosted in one of the member’s homes, which is our tradition. We were excited to learn about eco dyeing based on our member, Linda Wallace’s experience, who was very fortunate to have taken a workshop with India Flint earlier in the year. We each brought fabrics of our choice (cottons, wools, silks, linens) along with materials we had collected in nature (leaves, cones, sticks, pieces of rusty iron, dried blossoms, etc) and we wrapped our fabric bundles. Then we were to take our bundles home and put them into dye baths of our individual choice. I had an old madder bath from the summer and put my two bundles into that in my crock pot, as I was leaving in two days for Mexico, and wanted to get the pieces dyed before I left. You can see one of the scarves above and one here below…
Show and tell for the members’ pieces will be in the new year. Everyone agreed that it was a fun experience…to play!!
