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Went to visit some lovely friends who run a business selling hand-dyed fabrics. They had put aside some bottles of left-over dye this week for my kids to do some tye-dying on T-shirts.
This is not our results (sadly), but some of their stock ready for sale at the Melbourne Quilt Show.
Starting with a nice non-color makes dyeing easier, and since the pants are not white, that helps keep the final color a more muted than bright.
Not all of my dye adventures come out as expected. I took an off-white denim vest from the U•turn Swap with the intention of dyeing it a darker color. I treated it with RIT Dark Green dye and got….
70’s denim blue.
I can think of two possible explanations for the unexpected color:
1. I didn’t leave the garment in the dye bath long enough (I made a timing error and the washer started draining after 15 minutes instead of the recommended 30), so the blue dye penetrated but the yellow dye didn’t.
2. Magic.
I’m leaning towards explanation #2.
Vest, Old Navy (swapped and dyed). Dress, London Times (hand-me-down). Scarf, Gap (I think). Shoes, Colin Stuart. Bag, Franco Sarto. Earrings, Jana’s Designs.
I may try to dye it dark green, again, and defeat the gremlins.
The subtle colours that can be achieved with natural dyes are so beautiful, as shown in this display seen at Sutton Hoo yesterday!
650 DYE, First London SRM 3, 1963 AEC Routemaster / Park Royal.
This bus was withdrawn by London Transport in 1985, and subsequently saw service in Blackpool and Reading before returning to London and being heavily refurbished and returned to service. It is now a regular performer on the 'heritage' service on route 9.
In 1977, a bus carrying this registration number (albeit with a different body and probably a different chassis) was one of 25 painted into a silver livery to mark Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee.
It was returned to this livery in 2004, and is currently in a revised version of the modified livery it received for the 2012 Olympics.
It was operating on the supplementary service on routes 9 / 15, normally being restricted to route 9, and is seen at Charing Cross.
Tie-Dye cake. Bottom tier is Chocolate cake filled with whipped chocolate ganache and iced in vanilla italian buttercream. Top tier is French vanilla cake filled with white chocolate buttercream iced in vanilla italian buttercream. The tie-dye scrollwork is all done with buttercream and the peace sign and name are gumpaste.
Onion skins tied around eggs, then placed in water and boiled. The center one had cilantro leaves pressed onto it while dyeing.
Redken 5th Avenue NYC ad campaign - Curl Up and Dye Salon.
Hair & makeup, models/stylists, and owners: Alex Arias, Brittany Holland, Carla Ibarra, Kendall Oliver, Jose Duran, BriAnna Monahan, Jasmine Guzman and Carmen Serna.
IG: @Curlupanddye, @cryscophotography
brand new!! havent worn ragin raisans tye dye AS but can fit AM comfortably.Brand new very slick and comfy!!!
model: dc dye
photographer: kevin chung
location: random shack || dallas, tx
50mm f/1.4
canon 5dmark3
natural light
Photo by Van Waffle.
Goldenrod dye experiments - September 10 to 16, 2008
Wednesday September 10
The goldenrod came from my front yard. There was enough there to almost fill my large washing basin.
I try to only use the yellow flowers by stripping off the petals from the flower heads. It got late, so the last quarter of the flowers heads were put in almost whole. I try to put as little twigs and leaves as possible, as that makes the colour grayer / cloudy in the first dip.
I covered the plant material with hot water and left them to soak overnight.
Thursday September 11
Transferred all material to a new pot I bought.
Sunday September 14
I simmered the goldenrod for a couple hours and then left everything in the pot overnight to cool.
Monday September 15 - yarn prep
I skeined up the yarns that were in the balls. To tired to do the dyeing.
Tuesday September 16 - Dye Day!
I removed the plant material and strained the liquid.
There was about 26 cups of dye liquid in the pot. I split this into two pots with 13 cups in each and then added hot water to bring it up to 24 cups of liquid in each pot.
Yarns used:
Cascade Yarns Cascade 220 - 100% Peruvian Highland Wool, 2 skeins
Fortissima Socka - 75% superwash wool, 25% Polyamid (nylon), 2 balls
Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride - 85% wool, 15% mohair single, 2 balls
Trekking Pro Natura - 75% superwash wool, 25% bamboo, 2 balls
I did not pre-mordant these yarns. I added the mordant directly to the dyebaths.
I had read that using iron as a mordant would give me an olive to kaki green colour. I split the dyebaths so that I could use iron in one and my regular alum and cream of tartar in the other.
I normally give goldenrod an afterdip in ammonia. I didn't have any at home, so I used baking soda instead.
Pot 1 - Alum and Cream of Tartar in the dyebath
Dip 1 - 200 grams of fiber
Mordant - 20 grams alum, 10 grams cream of tartar (10% alum, 5% cream of tartar)
Also a tablespoon of salt and a tablespoon of citric acid.
Skeins
A1 Fortissima Socka
A2 Trekking Pro Natura
The afterdip in baking soda intensified the colour. Both were dark and rich. The Trekking was a little lighter due to the bamboo.
Dip 2 - 200 grams of fiber
Mordant - 12 grams alum, 6 grams cream of tartar (6% alum, 3% cream of tartar)
Another tablespoon of salt and a half-tablespoon of citric acid.
Skeins
A3 Lamb's Pride
A4 Cascade 220
The afterdip in baking soda really intensified the colour. The skeins started out much lighter, and the after dip deepened the colour and really brought it out. The Lamb's Pride is a lighter colour due to the mohair.
There wasn't much colour left in the dye pot. It was a very light lemon colour.
Pot 2 - Iron and Alum in the dyebath
Dip 1 - 200 grams of fiber
Mordant - 4 grams iron, 4 grams alum (2% iron, 2% alum)
Also a tablespoon of salt and a tablespoon of citric acid.
Skeins
B1 Fortissima Socka
B2 Trekking Pro Natura
The after dip in baking soda dramatically changed the colour. Out of the pot it was a greeny yellow. Once in the dip it changed to a deep green brown. I let it soak there for 10 minutes. Rinsing didn't change the colour.
Dip 2 - 200 grams of fiber
Mordant - 3 grams iron, 3 grams (1.5% iron, 1.5% alum)
Another tablespoon of salt and this time 2 tablespoons of baking soda.
Skeins
B3 Lamb's Pride
B4 Cascade 220
Adding the baking soda to the dye bath was a mistake. It immediately foamed up and the smell was quite unpleasant. The normal goldenrod bath is a nice smell. The colour changed from yellow to an inky brown.
The yarns were not very dark in the pot. Giving them the afterdip in baking soda helped a little, but didn't change the colour much. After rinsing the yarns a while I gave them a soak in vinegar water to neutralize the yarns a bit, then rinsed them more. The colour did not change. This gave a nice grayish brown.
There was still a good amount of colour in the pot, but I didn't have time / more material to dye more.
The skeins show in the picture are, left to right, top to bottom:
A1 A3
A2 A4
B1 B3
B2 B4
This is how it's done:
Eggs, hard-boiled and at room temperature. Note: These eggs are not meant to be eaten. Hard-boiled is easier to work with, and eventually become hollow, since the shell is porous. Store in a cardboard and not a styrofoam container. We have eggs from the Carter Administration!
Real egg dyes. I get them on-line from Hearthsong. Prepare as directed. Most need white vinegar.
Beeswax: This lasts for a long time. I got these on Hearthsong, but I think you can also get blocks of beeswax in a drug store/pharmacy.
Implements; We're used to working with dressmaker pins (larger head, so holds more melted wax) stuck in a kitchen match with the igniting part broken off. Commercial instruments also shown. We find they don't work as well for us.
Asbestos pads or other to put over the flame (gas stove used here). Turn it low and place beeswax in a jar lid (I prefer Hellman's mayonnaise) so that it melts. The wax, of course, has to be melted before it's applied. Asbestos pads are also used for later removing the wax from the eggs. Warm a cloth to rub off the wax.
Cloths for blotting off an egg after you've dipped it in one color and then want to put it in another.
Simply stated: Whatever design you draw on the wax stays. So start with white, then another light color and another. If you are very exuberant, your egg will have multicolor designs against a deep purple or black background. I usually limit myself to three colors..
My sis got me a tie-dye kit for Christmas. It's pretty awesome. Made three t-shirts with mom... one for me, her and a surprise tank for stephanie. We wet the tees before tie dying - next time I'd do it with dry t-shirts for a stronger colour. (Yes I'd totally do this again).