Tag: dyed
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Dyeing Wool & Silk Using Eastern Brazilwood
Wool & Silk Fibres Dyeing Wool & Silk Using Eastern Brazilwood are the materials I chose to dye with. I used Cheviot, and Bluefaced Leicester combed top for my wool and silk hankies for my silk. Eastern Brazilwood Dye Stock Ground eastern Brazilwood powder is the dye stock I used. To use this ground wood,…
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A Look At My Natural Dyeing Experiment With Sunflower Seeds & Iron
Hopi Sunflower Seeds Creating Dye Stock Hopi sunflower seeds have been used for centuries by the Hopi people of northeastern Arizona as a natural dye to colour their textiles. The seeds produced a rich and vibrant purple colour that could be easily extracted and used to dye wool. To create a dye stock with this…
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Dye Kits Using Plants & Fibre
This video captures this week’s dyeing experiment. Using my dye kit, I naturally dyed bluefaced leicester combed top with sunflower seeds, sweet peas from my garden, and some extracts. Here are the results from this week’s dyeing experiment. Results Get Your Kit The kit includes three mini skeins or combed tops and pouches of dried…
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2023 Be My Valentine Fibre Bits Club
It’s here! Pre-orders for the first Fibre Bits Club in 2023! Watch Shiree’s latest video on Youtube (she is one of my test spinners) to see the colourway Be My Valentine up close and learn about each sheep’s characteristics. *quantities are limited. Happy spinning! Keli