Here are the final roving samples from the Madder experiment. The first was the 12 hour mordant (with alum) and 3 days in the dye (left), 5 days (middle) and 3 day mordant with 7 days in the dye. Unfortunately, the sun washed it out a bit.
I did have an oops with this. The madder was powered, but I had sense enough to not let it float free with the roving. Initially, it was contained in nylon stockings but at some point I accidentally poked one of the stockings when I was moving the dyeables around and ruptured it. The madder grit invaded the dye bath and is impossible to get out of the roving. The darkest sample in the image above actually felted during my attempts to remove the powder. The other roving piece I set aside an only lightly rinsed twice. It still has flecks, but will work to spin for a dye sample, even though I would not use the yarn for anything else for fear that the madder would release more dye and stain something else.
I did have an oops with this. The madder was powered, but I had sense enough to not let it float free with the roving. Initially, it was contained in nylon stockings but at some point I accidentally poked one of the stockings when I was moving the dyeables around and ruptured it. The madder grit invaded the dye bath and is impossible to get out of the roving. The darkest sample in the image above actually felted during my attempts to remove the powder. The other roving piece I set aside an only lightly rinsed twice. It still has flecks, but will work to spin for a dye sample, even though I would not use the yarn for anything else for fear that the madder would release more dye and stain something else.
To the left is the yarn I previously posted. This also was in the 3 day mordant, 7 day dye bath. Next too it is a piece of linen that I mordanted and dyed with the wool just to see how it would turn out. The pink is very nice and actually dyed evenly on the linen. I look forward to playing with more linen dye samples after Pennsic!
Up next... Experiment #2 - Weld Revisited! And following that I have birch leaves and bark to test.
As for what else is going on well... see below the 16 bundles of fine wool warp that is now on my loom!
Up next... Experiment #2 - Weld Revisited! And following that I have birch leaves and bark to test.
As for what else is going on well... see below the 16 bundles of fine wool warp that is now on my loom!
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