Tangled up.
I’ve been making warps. Many many warps. Mostly because I have a lot of yarn lying around… naturally dyed, undyed, synthetically dyed, commercially dyed… omg, that’s a lot of yarn. Rather than using handpainted yarn throughout the whole warp, I’ve taken to mixing it up with a bunch of other solid coloured yarns.
The six-yard warp will end up as two 2.5 yard scarves or shawls (I haven’t decided… there’s still a lot of handpainted yardage remaining that I want to use up)… each one will be woven with a different coloured weft.
The bamboo was dyed in a pot with a bunch of other fibres and took on so much less dye. The dye pot was a mix of cutch, cochineal and iron in various combinations with silk and bamboo in the pot. I probably wouldn’t wear any of these colours on their own, but optically blended together, they become more interesting. The weft will likely be plain undyed bamboo, and then the whole piece will go back into the dye pot. Maybe more cutch. We’ll see.
Finally, this is the silk yarn that came out of the same pot. Unplied DK-weight silk yarn to be woven with some 2-ply cutch-dyed silk yarn… it might be overwhelmingly cutchy brown. Hmm. But luckily everything can be overdyed and re-worked. In fact, I dropped a small plain weave silk sample that I wove last year into a cochineal dye pot earlier this week… and you know, I LOVE it. Multiple dyes, overdyes, piece dyeing… I want it.
Really interesting and fascinating!
OMG is right. Those are so gorgeous!
Those colours are amazing, and the extra information about what you used to dye led to a very informative trip around the net. I can’t wait to see what it looks like woven up.
Absolutely lovely!
I hadn’t realized how much I had missed your photos until these last two blog posts. I hope I’m not the only knitter / fibre fiend who smiles at the sight of colour.
i really like the picture of Finished bamboo warp chain/ The two colors mixed together look so beautiful~
Super gorgeous!!!
Beautiful warps :-). I look forward to seeing what you do with them. I plan to spend a lot more time weaving this winter too.
Simply beautiful!
They are just georgous…you have such a way with color!
Fabulous colors! I love them.
Hi
Beutifull work as usual. Can you email me as I have a few questions.
Iris.
Ooooooooh. I want to learn to weave in the worst way.
Wow, those colors are amazing!