Lab Group Data, Group F; Week 5, Spring 2024: Dyeing

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.
Image of 4 different colors of yarn displayed side by side. From left to right: yellow, green, blue, purple

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)…