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Dyeing stamps used at B. Glarner's cotton manufactory, first half of the 19th century.
Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation, Riga, Latvia.
Tribes in South America used the poison from the frog's skin to make a young parrot's feathers grow into a different colour.
Horniman Museum and Gardens.
One of the loveliest museums and gardens in London.
This is a reference and inspiration photo for anyone who has some Barbie clothes they like in shape, but not color. I really hadn't expected the Rit to take so well, since polyester won't dye, but, I guess the poly content of the dress is low, and all the trim is nylon. I touched up the visible undyable polyester thread with a Sharpie.
650 DYE RM6. Sun Star 1/24 Arriva London AEC RM in 'The Queen's Golden Jubilee' livery operating 23.
Sacks of dye sit at a vendor's stall in Chefchaouen, Morocco.
Chefchaouen is situated in the Rif Mountains, just inland from Tangier. The city was founded in 1471 as a small fortress by Moorish exiles from Spain led by Moulay Ali Ben Moussa Ben Rached El Alami to fight the Portuguese invasions of northern Morocco. It was known as one of the main concentrations of Moriscos (converted Christian inhabitants of Spain and Portugal of Muslim heritage) and Jews who sought refuge in this mountainous city after the Spanish Reconquista in medieval times. In 1920, the Spanish seized Chefchaouen to form part of Spanish Morocco and returned the city after the independence of Morocco in 1956.
Someone done stole the dye vat.
Short write-up: kneejerkimagery.tumblr.com/post/83621475021/m-b-d-plant-a...
Snaps from an abandoned dye plant in PA.
I didn't really know what to do in processing the whole set of these, so I just processed a couple with VSCO presets and tweaked them a tad. May need to revisit them some time with a little more clarity on what I really aim to achieve in processing.
CSX southbound daily freight Q643 is rolling through Dyer on the Monon Sub. He's got two shiny BNSF GE's wearing the swoosh for power. The light is still good, in fact very good, as the train is running nice and early, right on the Hoosier State's blocks. You can't repeat this shot today, at least in late light, because someone decided to plant a row of tall evergreens along the right of way, casting shadows over the tracks. I wonder if they'd notice if somebody did a little "yard work" and cut them down. Just kidding.....
portrait of a worker pulling down dried dyed cloths from a drying rack. kindly, press L to view in black.
see my most COLOURFUL set here
the two yellow ones is mordanted with 1. oakleaves 2. alum and then dyed with goldenrod.
The one at the left is unbleached cotton and was taken the colours form the goldenrods 1. bath....the second Goldenrod bath made the next yellow one, which is 100 % woolfabric but it had been dyed with a fungus which made is khaki...so the Goldenrod dyeing of the wool is an overdye on a pale brown colour...
The piece of cloth with a pattern is a arashi shibori....mordanted with a second alderbark-bath...coldmordanted....then put into a soymilk solution ( soymilk 1: water 5)...then into coldmordanting with alderbark again....and then dyed with a weak iron/onion solution.....the fabric was some thin cotton which was already having a beige colour while i actually bought it for having it for sewing some inner bag for a small bag i had sewn...but it ended in the dyepot as a try to make some arashi shibori on a pvc tube.....and i did the whole proces cold while i was a bit afraid of heating up the pvctube....
Cream dropped into small pool of cream and food dye.
Timing Phototrigger and Splashart Kit - needs working on
Strobist info: 2 x YN560 front left and right @ 1/32 30cm camera 1/250 f13
wool at the right and cotton on the left but both dyed with Goldenrod...the woo lwas first dyed khakibrown with a fungus...but i was not satiesfied with it and overdyed it with that very strong colouring goldenrod plant....fresh.....
only the cotton are mordanted with first oakleaves....and then mordanted with alum...... the cotton with alum 20 % and the wool is only mordanted with alum 10 %....
(sorry to those who read that i wrote that both fabrics were mordanted with oakleaves...The wool is NOT...only with alum 10 % before the dyeing)
beneath is a piece of cotton from a curtain i had....and it is dyed with heather...flowers and stems and leaves....all from the heather...and it was mordanted with oakleaves and 20 % alum before dyed with heather.....
I really apreciate getting to use alum...it really gives something to the dyeing proces....and together with tannin from oakleaves, oakbark or alderbark which are the ones i use before I dye cotton and linen ( they do give colours also)....the tannin really makes the alum go easier into the fabric (cotton and linen) and that makes it easier for the dyecolour to get into the fabric.....
I no longer keep such detailed records. Just the yarn, what it was dyed and mordanted with, the date, and maybe the location. Nothing about how long it was soaked and simmered and such.
I'm never going to try to replicate any colors exactly anyways. The fun for me is in trying to dye something new, not so much in doing the same thing over again.
It's nice to look back and remember when and where I was in life when I dyed that particular yarn.....Big Sur, California? Orcas Island, Washington? Durango, Colorado? Seattle, Washington?
Rob Dyer of Skate4Cancer.
Rob and I ventured into Coney Island after warped tour yesterday and snuck on a few rides and shot a lot of really hilarious photos and also some nice ones. I've known Rob for almost 4 years! He's one of my best friends.
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Snaps from an abandoned dye plant in PA.
I didn't really know what to do in processing the whole set of these, so I just processed a couple with VSCO presets and tweaked them a tad. May need to revisit them some time with a little more clarity on what I really aim to achieve in processing.