This month Debbie Bamford as part of the UK Online Guild of Weavers, Spinner and Dyers has been running a natural dye workshop using a variety of natural dyes to create a series of red samples of dyed fibes or yarns.
So far I have dyed 3 samples using 2 different recipes for cochineal dyeing.
The first photo shows merino/silk top (50/50 blend) dyed using a recipe adapted by Debbie from Michelle Whipplinger.
The second photo shows a tiny sample of alpaca dyed in the same dye pot as the silk/merio above.
The third photo shows more silk/merino dyed based on a recipe by Gosta Sandberg.
It is interesting to note the different uptake of the dyes on the merino and the silk. The silk is a whole lot paler. My daughter said that the Sandberg sample looks like candy floss!
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