For this week’s lab, we experimented with the dying process of wool. Our group was focused specifically on dying wool a green color, which we made by first dying the wool yellow and then redying that in indigo. While this was definitely more of an experiential than an experimental lab, below is some of the…
By Gisele Nelson and Nicholas Spezia-Shwiff Introduction: For our fourth lab, we experienced making different colors of dyes with help from wool expert and friend of the class Alejandra Sanchez, who also assisted us last week in our carding, spinning, and weaving lab. As a class, we made four colors (yellow, green, blue, and purple)…
This week we experimented with dying processes. My group, group A, dyed our wool using dried marigolds. Additionally, as a class we dyed wool using dried and processed natural indigo pigment. General data about the dyes and wool can be found below. Dye Mordant Dye Mass Water Weight Wool Mass Thread Size Water pH Indigo…