21 October 2024
I've talked about the four women in our class who foraged for plant material and made all sorts of dyes. They really worked hard, and accomplished a lot during our ten day class.
Not that I learned anything about dyeing, but I was 
having enough trouble just warping the loom! I really did not need to try anything else in the class, trust me!
The group used a combination of foraged materials and the Saxon blue that our instructor, Shelley, brought with her. The blues in the center are Saxon blue, some overdyed over elephant ear mushroom dye, or, well, I don't really know.
But look at all these colors! Amazing, aren't they? So big props to our dyers, who created these and more colors of yarn!
They then catalogued the various colors, making cards with a swatch of each yard and labelling them with the plant materials used, the mordants, percentages of whatever - so that these colors can be replicated.
As I said originally, I wanted the colors that were used in the San Gemini flags, the indigo blue, bright white, and rich red. So I didn't get involved with the dyes. (My big contribution, she said facetiously, was helping spread these skeins on the drying rack so the yarn could fully dry. I know, one tiny step in a HUGE task!)
But the results really were incredible, so I wanted to be sure to include them here!
Those colors are fabulous! Amazing what you can do w/plant material.
ReplyDeleteLOL! At least you were able to spread the skeins on the drying rack!
Hugs
Barb
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