A Colorful Day's Work

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Colorful Day's Work Some of the results of about 8 of us playing with wool, silk, and natural dyes on July 11, 2009. There are more colors, but they were hanging over the porch railing and outside the frame. The rippling pink and violet stuff in the foreground is a pile of silk "handkerchiefs" which are not actually woven, but merely stretched sheets of raw silk ready for dyeing and spinning. These were dyed with cochineal, using various mordants. The nearly black and charcoal wools were dyed with logwood, the red and burgundy samples next to the left with cochineal. The brassy colors at the far left of the table were dyed with fustic. The pale bluegreen yarn at the top left has not yet been dyed at all. That's the color left by using copper sulfate as a mordant. Photo courtesy of Barb Bundick.