Archive for September, 2015
Natural Dyeing Summer 2015
by Elaine on Sep.05, 2015, under Blog Posts
The past two weeks have been spent dyeing with natural dyes yellows and reds. It has been a lovely time using my crock pot and a pound of fine 2/20’s worsted wool purchased the previous summer at Convergence in Rhode Island. I divided the cone of yarn into 40 small skeins which some mordanted with just alum and others with alum and cream of tartar. I plan to use this yarn with a heavier yarn for weaving my tapestries. I will wait for a few weeks and then over dye some of the yellows to get more greens and some of the cochineals to get purples.
The dyes used from left to right: Coreopsis from Mexico; Achiote from Mexico; Osage Orange from Canada; Gardenia Pods from Canada; Marigolds from Mexico; and iron used on Osage Orange skein.
The reds from left to right: Cochineal from Mexico and Madder from Canada.
