{"id":8,"date":"2010-04-07T19:05:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T23:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2010-04-07T19:05:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T23:05:05","slug":"dyeing-for-color-part-1-purple-and-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/dyeing-for-color-part-1-purple-and-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Dyeing for Color Part 1: Purple and Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s spring and nature is spreading color all over the place (mostly green pollen all over my car).\u00a0 Since Spring Break is here, and a little bit of extra time with it, I thought I’d do my part to help.\u00a0 Last week I prepped ahead and ordered 10 Jacquard Acid Dyes from Sheepish Creations at Etsy<\/a>.\u00a0 (Yellow Sun, Pink, Turquoise, Russet, Aztec Gold, Kelly Green, Purple, Burgundy, Silver Grey, and Periwinkle)\u00a0 Add those to the Emerald Green and Sapphire Blue that I already had, and that’s 12 colors to experiment with.<\/p>\n

So I started with Purple, on my daughters recommendation (I just finished a dye job that I call Pankedy Pinkity, see below, for a friend of mine’s grand-baby, so my daughter was content to let me off the pink hook.)\"Pankedy<\/a><\/p>\n

At first I was at a loss for how to deal with such small quantities of dye powder.\u00a0 I tried measuring out one gram, the smallest unit my scale will measure.\u00a0 Then I eyeballed dividing it by 4.\u00a0 So I ended up adding 0.25 grams of dye powder to 4 cups of water and 1\/4 cup of white vinegar.\u00a0 Previous research has shown that it doesn’t much matter how much liquid is in the bath.\u00a0 The dye will either be absorbed or it won’t.\u00a0 I put a 6 yard strand of white yarn in the bath and began heating it on the stove top (medium heat).\u00a0 After five minutes, I removed the first yard.\u00a0 Every 5 minutes after that I removed another yard.<\/p>\n

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The dye bath as the fiber was put it was opaque<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When the fiber had all been pulled, the dye bath was still very dark and the first pull was a very deep purple.\u00a0 I decided to dilute the dye bath and try another set.<\/p>\n

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The first set of purple dye was almost black at 30 minutes and even the 5 minute pull was fairly dark.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The dye bath was diluted by half and I repeated the process.<\/p>\n

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Results of the diluted dye bath.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Here the first pull was a bit lighter.\u00a0 It’s hard to see in these photos, but the last pulls are lighter as well, and a good deal redder in tone.<\/p>\n

Having learned a bit about what effect an overabundance of dye has on the color product, I found the smallest spoon I could and used it to measure out the dye for the next batch, romantically named Aztec Gold.<\/p>\n

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The full dye bath was almost, but not quite opaque.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The results for this one were stunning, thought the dye bath was not quite depleted at the end.\u00a0 I quick dipped a length of yarn to see what the lightest color it could produce would be.<\/p>\n

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The picture doesn’t begin to do it justice.\u00a0 I have a feeling that we will be seeing a lot of Aztec Gold coming out of my dye pots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s spring and nature is spreading color all over the place (mostly green pollen all over my car).\u00a0 Since Spring Break is here, and a little bit of extra time with it, I thought I’d do my part to help.\u00a0 Last week I prepped ahead and ordered 10 Jacquard Acid Dyes from Sheepish Creations at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyeing"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/author\/admin\/"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gp05-8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7,"url":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/welcome-to-my-fiber-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":8,"position":0},"title":"Welcome to my fiber blog","author":"admin","date":"April 7, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Ok, so I've finally broken down and joined in on this blog thing.\u00a0 I've had to keep one for the last 6 months for work, so I understand how they work, but the kids at school don't read the materials I hand to them, I have my doubts about them\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":21,"url":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/dyeing-for-color-part-ii\/","url_meta":{"origin":8,"position":1},"title":"Dyeing for Color Part II","author":"admin","date":"April 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I had a bit of time sans kids and husband, so I knocked out quite a few colors.\u00a0 Same procedure as before, one small spoonful of dye powder to 4 cups of water and 1\/4 cup of vinegar, 6 yard skeins, pulled every 5 minutes.\u00a0 The russet, emerald, and turquoise\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "dyeing"","block_context":{"text":"dyeing","link":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/category\/fibers\/dyeing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":42,"url":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/onions\/","url_meta":{"origin":8,"position":2},"title":"Onions!","author":"admin","date":"September 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Several months ago I bought a sample card from Paradise Fibers with a whole bunch of different wool and silk fibers.\u00a0 I wondered, after Kaleeb's and my experiments with natural dyes (in which the commercial wool took up the dyes much more intensely than my hand-spun), whether the breed of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "dyeing"","block_context":{"text":"dyeing","link":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/category\/fibers\/dyeing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16,"url":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/reinventing-the-wheel\/","url_meta":{"origin":8,"position":3},"title":"Reinventing the Wheel","author":"admin","date":"April 8, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Ok, so after struggling with the very small dye powder weights and thinking that I was going to need to get and analytical scale to be able to do small dye lots... 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