During this lab, our guest, Alejandra Sanchez, returned to facilitate this lab, wherein we dyed the wool we learned how to spin in the prior lab, alongside other natural fibres, from yarn to human hair to shirts. In this lab, I was the data recorder for Group F, which consisting of myself, Gisele Nelson, and Elek Thomas-Toth. We were assigned a pot alongside another group. That group was tasked with only making a yellow dye by itself, which our two groups collectively did, as yellow marigold dye was an intermediary step to producing a green dye, which was what our group sought to do.
Week 5 Lab Group E Data
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…
Lab Summary Week 5: Dyeing
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)…
Group A Dyeing Data
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…
Lab Journal: Week 5 Dyeing
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Week 5 Lab Journal: Mass Dyeing!!
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Week 5 Lab Journal: Dyeing
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Week 5 Lab Journal: Dyeing
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Week 5 Lab Journal: Dying
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Week 5 Lab Journal: The Art of Dyeing
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