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…
In this week’s lab, group C participated in two dyeing procedures. With the full class, we dyed wool in indigo, and as a group (along with group D) we dyed wool in logwood. Indigo For this process, Alejandra combined approximately 5 gallons of warm water, sodium hydrosulfite as a reducing agent, and soda ash as…