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Sockyarns 75% wool 25% nylon
Mushroom dyed 120929
1. Rödskivig spindling Cortinarius semisanguinesis --foot
Roströdskivig spindling Cortinarius fervidus
Alunbetad
Bath I
2.
o-betad blodspindelskivling (Cortinarius sanguinesis).
Bath II
3. o -betad blodspindelskivling (Cortinarius sanguinesis).
Bath I
4. Alun-betad Gul rottryffel (Scleroderma citrinum)
Bath I
5.Savelgul slöjskivling / Hypholoma fasciculare
Alun-betad
Bath I
I have 5 Dylans and another in the mail, so they are my chosen guinea pigs (plus their skin tone bothers me - it's too grey). Here I have my set up:
-A dedicated dye container thats long and deep enough for the doll (gotten at the thrift store naturally). Never use dye tools for food prep - it's unsafe as fabric dyes are not food safe!!
-Liquid Rit Dye Dark Brown 25, well shaken
- Dedicated dying measuring spoons
I wish had put a lot of newspaper under this set up, that would have saved me time bleaching the counter afterwards. I only spilled and spattered about a tablespoon, but that can cover a lot of area :(
I had to get paper towels and a cardboard lid to hold the dolls after the dying so they could dry. I also had to use my finger to fish the dolls out by the hair. A pair of dye tongs would have been helpful as would a second person to help out.
yesterday, i got to play with natural dyes all day. i set up 5 traditional natural dye vats: 2 black walnut, madder, tumeric and osage orange. inspired by india flint, i tore up an old linen tablecloth and used this cloth to experiment with her direct application techniques. i arranged leaves, onion skins and bloodroot pieces on the squares of wet linen, then folded and bound and into the dyepots. i am very pleased with the result. opening these little bundles was like opening cloth gifts!
the dyeing uniform = canvas apron and cast off t-shirts.
this kid mohair is going in the dye pot today. it seemed like the perfect necklace at the time.
Tye dye birthday cake that I made for my neice. I love the way the light reflects off the disco ball onto the top of the cake.
Natalia Dyer speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Stranger Things", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
A few months ago I ran across a clever small nitrogen laser build.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCnXftuJ9Zo
Back in the early seventies I was fascinated by nitrogen lasers and tried to build one. The vacuum sealing (and excess complexity) was my downfall. Years later I built a simpler unit that worked but that was that.
Before that I tried to build the flash-lamp pumped dye laser from CL Strong but once again lack of machining resources stopped my project.
I decided to finish what I had started fifty years ago. The build was clever and straightforward. After a short while and with about 50$ I had the nitrogen laser. It worked fine (even with air) so I got started on making a nitrogen laser pumped dye laser.
I had some old surplus quartz quvettes that had frosted sides. I used diamond abrasives to polish the two frosted sides. My attic full of crap yielded the mirrors and (amazingly) the quartz cylindrical lens.
In my experience the lens was the most useful part. I could get the dyes to lase using just the lens (super-radiance) but the mirrors not, except for one dye.
This photo shows the lens, the dye filled cuvette and the mirrors lasing. The dye is a fountain pen ink (probably a Fluorescein dye) lazing green. The pump is the nitrogen laser which is invisible UV light.
Cheers.
for a journey with my sister in Paris
*tie & dye dress New Look Inspire*
*legging Monoprix*
*spartiates Laredoute*
*necklace Etsy
I actually can't remember exactly where this is; I'll have to do some research. But the colors of India are so unmistakable, that I'd at least be able to narrow that down even if it were lost among all of my files.
If you know where this monument is, you can help me geotag this image too!
Workers tanning and dyeing leather in Fes, Morocco. It is difficult for tourists to actually go into the dyeing area, but there are a number of leather shops with balconies where you can watch the action in the pits.
Fox cosplayer at Anthrocon 2015 in Pittsburgh, PA.
The chicken in the background is the actual San Diego Chicken, who was Guest of Honor.
850 DYE RM29. Sun star 1/24 London Transport AEC Routemaster in 1977 'Queen's Silver Jubilee' livery with the (then) iconic Woolworth advert. I bought ages ago but never posted any photos.
MTL London's Routemaster RM1804 Reg 804 DYE now repainted stands in Mardens yard.
Note the white band instead of the usual cream
1 October 2015
So I heard iPoly dye would have been a better option for dyeing doll parts ever since RIT changed its formula and I finally got around to testing this theory. I decided to just follow the instructions since I wanted to see the extremes of this first before I try messing with it.
I got the powder version and there was only “Brown” instead of RIT’s expansive range of tan and browns and stuff. I basically boiled a pot of water and dumped in the liquid packet and the brown powder and let it get to a rolling boil, and then dumped in the parts and turned off the heat. I let the pieces soak for about two hours before taking them out and rinsing off under running water for a few minutes.
The parts I used was a vintage Midge head, a Korea Malibu Barbie, a 1974 Hair Fair Barbie, very yellowed Mod era straight arms and legs with a still pink Twist and Turn torso, Fashionista Nikki, Director Barbie head and Barbie Style Raquelle. The modern heads were just there so I could see how theyd work on modern dolls.
A few things to note. Holy crap, the colour is SO much more vibrant and works WAY more quickly than RIT dye has worked for both my Allan and Francie dye projects. To contrast and compare, this is two hours worth of soaking, while RIT dye took over 12 hours yet my Allan and Francie dolls are still relatively light toned.
Another thing to note is that iPoly actually dyes hair fibres, which RIT dyeing has NEVER done, so I was really surprised since every attempt at RIT dye often leaves blonde hair as is. If there was some way of protecting the vinyl, I would love try dyeing some blonde hair to be darker lol.
ALSO IPOLY DYE WORKS ON HARD PLASTICS. I’m sooooooooo very shocked that I was able to get that peachy light skintone as dark as it is cuz RIT dye has absolutely no effect on hard plastic.
If I were to do this again, I would dye the torso separately first then gently dip the other parts intermittently until they were the same tones.
I’ll report back in a week if these parts though lol.
Demolished building is the Dyer Street Land Corporation. The Union Trust tower (where the Dorrance is located and The Federal Reserve was before) can be seen at the right edge of both photos.
FOV: 4" wide.
Left: Pyranine (from yellow hi-liter pen)
Right: Jolly Rancher Cherry candy partially dissolved in concentrated tonic water containing quinine.
Contains:
Pyranine (FL Yellow green >BL/UVabc)
Red Dye #40 (FL Red >BL/UVabc)
Quinine (FL Blue >UVabc)
Shown under UVa light.
Key:
WL = White light (halogen + LED)
FL = Fluoresces
PHOS = Phosphorescent
Blue = 450nm,
UVa = 368nm (LW), UVb = 311nm (MW), UVc = 254nm (SW)
'>' = "stimulated by:", '!' = "bright", '~' = "dim"
Pyranine and Quinine
16Nov2015
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18 Watt Triple Output UV lamp from Polman Minerals - Way Too Cool UV lamps