{"id":321,"date":"2009-04-22T12:16:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T17:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2009-04-22T19:04:01","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T00:04:01","slug":"dyeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"Dyeing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jenny Dean is doing a series of articles on Anglo-Saxon dyeing, with pretty pictures (Part 1<\/a>, Part 2<\/a>). <\/p>\n

I’ve been doing some modern dyeing, but for a Viking purpose: much more of the insane silk<\/a> for a larger project. I want to end up with enough for the front of an apron dress. I’m thinking, oh, 300 cards.<\/p>\n

\"Dyed<\/p>\n

Nice bright Viking colors. Those are two-yard skeins, and each is 1,000 yards. Except for the blue – that’s 1,500. This silk is demon-possessed, I’m sure of it. I’ve made horrible messes with previous dyeing experiments. This time, I will win. There are ties every 3 inches, I was ridiculously careful with the dyepot and the rinsing, and I used those nifty giant twist ties.<\/p>\n

Shortly after I read a post by Leigh<\/a> on using large rings made of coathanger wire covered in taigon tubing to hold dye skeins (I think<\/i> it was Leigh, but I can’t find the original post right now – apologies!) I found this pack of silicone-covered wire twist ties in my local grocery.<\/p>\n

Edit:<\/b> Right! Michael<\/a> pointed out that I learned about the rings from Sandra Rude<\/a>, an entirely different weaving blogger. <\/p>\n

\"Silicon<\/p>\n

\"Silicon<\/p>\n

They’re boilable, bakable, and completely sealed. I had a little bit of trouble with the silk getting caught in the knot, but with larger threads (or ones not demon-possessed), that would not be much of a problem. They worked great as handles. The silicone doesn’t transmit heat well at all, so I can handle them directly from the dyebath. That alone was worth the moderate expense of purchasing these (about $15 for the set<\/a> – via an online supplier I know nothing about). If you do a lot of dyeing of skeins, especially fine threads, these are worth considering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jenny Dean is doing a series of articles on Anglo-Saxon dyeing, with pretty pictures (Part 1, Part 2). I’ve been doing some modern dyeing, but for a Viking purpose: much more of the insane silk for a larger project. I want to end up with enough for the front of an apron dress. I’m thinking, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,30,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-color","category-people-doing-cool-things","category-tablet-weaving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}