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 Journal, Spring 2024: Dyeing | “Going to indie-a-go-go”
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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…
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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Dyeing on Mai Fête
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Week 5 Lab: Dying
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Week 5: Dyeing Lab Journal
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Group E: Data
Lab Rundown Part I: Part II: Part III: We visited Alehandra’s farm on April 27th. It was a very peaceful experience to explore and to see the lovely animals of the farm. In addition to the two varieties of cattle with calves, there were turkeys, chickens, a cat, a guard dog, several breeds of sheep,…
Group D: Dyeing
Group D: Isabel, Will, Dylan, Ellie As the Experimental Archaeology class of 2023 piled into 4 or so campus vans, I’m not sure that any of us anticipated such a refreshing, calming and grounding experience from our visit to Alejandra’s farm. As a college student at Carleton, and probably at the vast majority of institutions…