The hand painted cutch waste and red lac and the hand painted rhubarb root and purple lac where hot favourites. So watch out for these on the Pure Tinctoria website in the next week.
Notes from the sketchbooks and archives of a dyer and her friends.
Showing posts with label Ganges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ganges. Show all posts
Monday, 28 June 2010
Woolfest 2010
Back from Woolfest where we met a lot of lovely new people and a lot of old friends.
Lorraine and I launched a new range of dyed wool yarns; Bluefaced Leicester Aran and Bluefaced Leicester and nylon sock yarn, both in a lovely range of colours.
The hand painted cutch waste and red lac and the hand painted rhubarb root and purple lac where hot favourites. So watch out for these on the Pure Tinctoria website in the next week.
The hand painted cutch waste and red lac and the hand painted rhubarb root and purple lac where hot favourites. So watch out for these on the Pure Tinctoria website in the next week.
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
mudbatik-natural dye process 10 min.wmv
Here is an interesting video showing how to use mud as a resist when natural dyeing.
Friday, 22 May 2009
Mordanting Cellulose Fibres
I was reading Deb Bamfords blog, A History of Colour, today and her post was about mordanting cellulose fibres. This prompted me write about some mordanting I did earlier this year with my friend Lorraine.
Those of you who visit Pure Tinctoria at Woolfest and Wonderwool Wales will know Lorraine as my very able helper. I wanted to reward Lorraine for all the help she gives me at these events and won't take a penny in recompense. Knowing she likes makeing quilts, last year I gave her a dyeing kit and cotton fabric for her birthday, and we got together to do the mordanting.
Now, I'm a passionate advocate for wool, British in particular, so I had to get out all my books to check how to do the mordanting properly! I knew I could do it in a one stage process, using aluminium acetate, but Lorraine wanted to do it "traditionally" with the everything in her "kit". So we opted to follow the alum, tannin, alum process. The tannin component was Amber-M (Oak Gall).
I was really impressed with the fabulous colours we got. They are so rich.
This image is of the colours before Lorraine pressed the fabric, but even then they are really beautiful. From Left to Right they are:
Ganges (Dhak), Amazon (Annatto), Rhine-M (Red Lac) and Rhine-S (Purple Lac).
Those of you who visit Pure Tinctoria at Woolfest and Wonderwool Wales will know Lorraine as my very able helper. I wanted to reward Lorraine for all the help she gives me at these events and won't take a penny in recompense. Knowing she likes makeing quilts, last year I gave her a dyeing kit and cotton fabric for her birthday, and we got together to do the mordanting.
Now, I'm a passionate advocate for wool, British in particular, so I had to get out all my books to check how to do the mordanting properly! I knew I could do it in a one stage process, using aluminium acetate, but Lorraine wanted to do it "traditionally" with the everything in her "kit". So we opted to follow the alum, tannin, alum process. The tannin component was Amber-M (Oak Gall).
I was really impressed with the fabulous colours we got. They are so rich.This image is of the colours before Lorraine pressed the fabric, but even then they are really beautiful. From Left to Right they are:
Ganges (Dhak), Amazon (Annatto), Rhine-M (Red Lac) and Rhine-S (Purple Lac).
Thursday, 20 November 2008
Gift Idea No 11! or my brains getting sore!
Oh, dear, my plan to blog every day with a new gift idea is sadly falling by the wayside. It's not that I can't think of ideas for all your "fibrey friends", it's just that I can't think of any more really exciting ideas.
Well that's not quite true. I've come up with some cracking ideas, but they will take time to put together, and times what I don't have!
We'd love to provide some naturally dyed warps for those weavers who don't like making them themselves, either because they don't have the time or the inclination, but want something that little bit different. I'd love the hear from you, as to whether this is something you'd like to see in the UK. There are a number of companies in the US who sell pre-dyed and made up warps, but we haven't been able to find any here, so I'm commissioning Jane Deane to dyes some fo
r me for the New Year, but that's a month or more away.
In the mean time, those of you who do like dyeing why not treat yourself to the Rivers Collection, which includes 10g Amazon (Annatto), 25g Ganges (Dhak), 25g Indus (Madder), 25g Nile (Natural Indigo), 25g Rhine-M (Red Lac) and 25g Rhine-S (Purple Lac) and all instructions.
This collection is now only £20.50 and represents good value for money for such a lovely collection of colours.
Well that's not quite true. I've come up with some cracking ideas, but they will take time to put together, and times what I don't have!
We'd love to provide some naturally dyed warps for those weavers who don't like making them themselves, either because they don't have the time or the inclination, but want something that little bit different. I'd love the hear from you, as to whether this is something you'd like to see in the UK. There are a number of companies in the US who sell pre-dyed and made up warps, but we haven't been able to find any here, so I'm commissioning Jane Deane to dyes some fo
r me for the New Year, but that's a month or more away.In the mean time, those of you who do like dyeing why not treat yourself to the Rivers Collection, which includes 10g Amazon (Annatto), 25g Ganges (Dhak), 25g Indus (Madder), 25g Nile (Natural Indigo), 25g Rhine-M (Red Lac) and 25g Rhine-S (Purple Lac) and all instructions.
This collection is now only £20.50 and represents good value for money for such a lovely collection of colours.
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