Esther and I spent Saturday cooking up some beets and veggies to make some samples for our yarn dying workshop.
There is definitely a science to this process but it is really fun to experiment with natural dyes. The beets have an amazing reddish purple hue, very rich and vibrant, yet yield a rich peach tone on the roving. Red Cabbage produced a pale bluish green. It is pretty amazing to watch the different colors a dye stock will result in, especially when you change the mordants and assists.
Last year we did a yarn dying workshop with Koolaid and the results were pretty spectacular and bright. This year we are expanding our resources to the produce and spice isles, hosting a natural dying workshop which produce a surprising array of gorgeous colors.
This workshop is the first event we will be hosting with Textile Arts Center in Park Slope on October 10th at 1pm.
Come check it out.....
http://craftswap.meetup.com/66/calendar/11356669/
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