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Rust Dyeing

A lot of you have expressed interest in my rust dyeing. For me, Kimberly Baxter Packwood is the real rust guru and she has just published some guidelines on rust dyeing on her blog, as well as pictures of her … Continue reading

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Painting on tissue

Here is a collage of some of the tissue paper I have been painting.   (I did this in Picasa, not in cutting and pasting real paper!    Not yet, anyway.) This is a photo of some corrogated card which I painted.  … Continue reading

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A little fun with Indigo

On Monday I decided to do some dyeing with an indigo dyeing kit which I had bought several months ago.   Actually, I started thinking about it the previous Saturday and spent the best part of the morning tying little marbly … Continue reading

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Knitting and onion skins

Here is the onion skin-dyed yarn drying on the line.  Yummy colour, isn’t it? Here it is dried and ready to use: The colour is actually closer to the top picture. And here is some more yarn being brought to … Continue reading

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Rust dyed fabrics

Here are several photos of the rust dyed fabric I did in the roasting tin which I had left on the floor in my studio to catch the drips from the leaking ceiling. This is the main piece – a … Continue reading

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Yummy Yarn!

At last – we have photos! This was dyed with blackberry leaves and a copper mordant. This one was mordanted with alum and was dyed in the exhaust of the blackberry leaf dyebath. This was dyed with an unknown hanging … Continue reading

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