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September 17, 2011 by Tien Chiu

Finished weaving sample #6!

And here it is:

fully woven sample - white silk warp, dyed wool weft
fully woven sample - white silk warp, dyed wool weft

Here are some closer views of the sections:

sample #6 - golds and oranges
sample #6 - golds and oranges
sample #6 - reds and purples
sample #6 - reds and purples
sample #6 - dark purple and brown
sample #6 - dark purple and brown

Thoughts:

  • I need either more striation or less.  Currently there’s striation in some places but not in others, which makes it look like a mistake or an uneven dye job.  I haven’t decided which I prefer; it will depend in part on what happens with my dye experiments.
  • I need to add more gold and yellow-orange.  I thought I had lots, but it pollutes very easily with other colors.
  • I should probably ditch the dark purple (just before brown) and replace it with a warm rust brown.  Will meditate on that tonight.
  • It looks a little washed out, but that’s because of the effect of the white silk.  Once dyed, it should look far more intense.

Tomorrow morning I will cross-dye the sample, painting it with various color schemes, and see what happens.

Ann asked how I could cross-dye the fabric when silk and wool are both protein fibers.  The answer is that silk is the only natural fibers that “goes both ways”: you can dye it with fiber-reactive dyes and soda ash (a la cellulose fibers) AND you can dye it using acid dyes, in the normal protein-fiber manner.  So I am taking advantage of this to dye the silk using the cellulose method, which won’t dye the wool.

Off to dinner!  Tomorrow morning I will wet-finish the sample and begin playing with dyes.  I never did get a chance to do a small sample with fiber-reactive dyes, so I’m just going to gamble that the method I used earlier, with tencel/alpaca, will work with without harming the wool.

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