On 3/24/08 7:44 AM, Barbara Webb wrote: > I was so surprised to read that anyone would say that you > cannot dye over natural colors.
Actually, nobody did -- the assertion in the book was that already-colored yarn "does not take dye well", not "does not take dye" -- and it *doesn't* take dye well, in the eyes of a professional dyer who is shooting for predictable colors that we moderns would call plain and boring. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's sorta spring.
