Friday, May 16, 2014
One more piece of dyeing
After the previous dyeing, I managed one more piece, but not without problems. This is a huge piece of fabric, I have had to fold it in half to get it on the flannel wall for the picture. I started with a LWI bath using burgundy and brick Procion MX dyes. The result was a pale orange with lots of white areas and a few darker spots, which I didn't like, so I used a normal dye bath of brick, with a higher concentration of dye. this covered the white spots but still left the piece much lighter than I wanted. I am usually pretty cheap with the dye, so I made a high concentration of burgundy dye and put it though another dye bath, letting it batch for almost 36 hours. Here are both sides of the piece. Not as dark as I would have liked, and not usable for the design I had in mind. So I guess I'll have to come up with a different design.
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