As promised here are a couple of pictures from todays dyeing. The results I have to say I am very pleased with - a lovely scarlet colour from the cochineal and a more crimson colour from the sticklac.
The recipes were quite straightforward really, I enjoyed them - the sticklac was really good, although I weighed out the 50g I obviously have much less a pecentage of red dyestuff to the amount of shellac left behind. Gosta Sandberg in his book The Red Dyes says that there is approximately 6% red colouring in sticklac as opposed to the amount you have if you use the already extracted powder - but I don't think that is really telling me what percentage dye I am actually using!
The cochineal we already know gives a very high yield of colour, for this recipe I used 13% dyestuff to the weight of fibres, normally I only use about 10%.
Now what colours shall I do tomorrow?
3 comments:
Fabulous colours Debbie. Congratulations too on a brilliant start to your blog.
I didn't realize you had a blog! Welcome to the fiber blogosphere!
Thanks very much Helen and Leigh! I'm finding it hard to keep up with everything, but I really wanted to do this, so I'm trying to make the effort!!
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