Greetings. In the past I have hand dyed yarn and fiber. I have never hand dyed really long pieces of yarn as most skeins are made up to be about 2 yards folded in half so about 18". My warps are 3 yds long or 9 feet. I realized I did not have enough table to dye these in a straight line. I got creative.
Soaked the warp bundles in the soda ash solution for about 25 minutes. 15 is usually enough, but I had to mix up the dye and it took about 20 minutes. I picked 5 shades of my colors and then wanted to "splash" some of the violet red in areas. I did not. I mixed the violet red dye but did not use it since the colors seem oh so saturated. This will be a bright scarf if nothing else!
Mixed the dyes. In most cases used a bit less dye than I should of hoping for "moderate tones". After all is said and done there are 5 tones but it looks like three colors.
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| Dyes all mixed ready to go |
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| Zig zag method to save space |
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| Applying the Terracotta color last |
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| All wrapped up to process for 18 hours |
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