Dyeing for Color

I made my daily trek to In a minute ago, in her new index of textile related weblogs, I came across a new blog: Dyeing to Color. It's composed of wonderful links, great articles, resoureces, and information on all facets of dyeing. Give this energetic woman a visit and comment.

My experiments with dyeing have so far been limited... another thing on my proverbial list of things to get back to! I did natural dyeing many years ago in New Mexico. The wool yarns left from those days have mellowed to lovely colors - they're now about 25 years old. Another thing I have been pleased with is overdyeing a batch of odd yarns and fabrics to get a dyepot of nicely related colors.

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[Barbara N]

Thank you very much for your kind words about my channel, but thank you even more for your wonderfully artful and eclectic blog. It is a great resource for all textile artists. I am putting a link to your blog on my channel to help more fiber and textile artists find you. I know they will the delighted with all you have to offer!

If you have not tried Procion fiber-reactive dyes yet, you might want to consider doing so. I think you will find them much easier and very much safer to use than natural dyes you worked with years ago. Even though they are called "natural," the natural dyes require mordants that are quite toxic. The Procion dyes require setting chemicals which are significantly safer to use. Except for one "little" thing, playing with them can become quite addictive! ;-)

Thanks again for your kind words about Dyeing to Color!