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Playing with dyes...


Playing with Dyes...

Published: 12-14-2011 11:31am
It's been some time since I've dyed any silk scarves or fabric.  It's not that I'd forgotten what I was doing, it's that I forgot that sometimes the dye has a mind of it's own. Take this scarf, for example. It was supposed to be a cream base with green over dye.  Yeah, that so did not happen.  I got a teal green base with an olive green overlay. Why? No clue. Maybe I didn't tie the cording tight enough or something, but that still doesn't explain where the teal came from, heh. I tied another scarf in the same method (Kumo Shibori), that I'd already dyed and over dyed twice before, just to see what it would turn out like. That one is very ... » Read More