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Archive of the Month: November 2024

Dyeing Soleil wool & cotton blend: Acid vs fiber reactive dyes

Dyeing Soleil wool & cotton blend: Acid vs fiber reactive dyes

Featuring: Knomad Soleil Fingering (50% Superwash Merino 50% Pima Cotton) Our Goal: Conduct an experiment using fiber-reactive dye to see the difference in uptake and refraction of color for the wool content versus the cotton content. Abstract: What happens if we use colors known to break from the fiber-reactive line and observe which colors adhere […]

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Microtonal Speckles on Clara Featuring a Two Stage Dye Approach

Microtonal Speckles on Clara Featuring a Two Stage Dye Approach

Featuring: Knomad Clara (100% Superwash Merino in a worsted weight) Our Goal: To take 3 primary colors and apply them in 2 different dye approaches to create a subtle, low variegation but still richly nuanced fall color story? Abstract: What happens if we first dye the yarn for a solid shade background, then speckle in […]

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How to Develop Variegated Yarn for Garments

How to Develop Variegated Yarn for Garments

Finally. Finally. It’s sweater weather. As a dyer, an area of the indie dyeing that I feel has been neglected is garment-minded variegated colorways. Of course the patterns are there, and of course you can knit any garment in any yarn and colorway you’d like. But I often find that when I’m scrolling through Instagram, […]

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