Hi all, I bought this beutiful linen wool blend fabric (pale pink) with the
intention of dyeing it a darker color. I use procion dyes on linen with great
success, but am a little leery of using it on wool. I wrote dharma, who
usually has great suggestions, but this time the customer
Well, the dyes for protein fibers generally require acids to set them, which
can damage cellulosic fibers.
The dyes for cellulosics generally require bases, which damage proteins.
*personally,* I'd dye the wool, because linen tends to be a stronger fiber
naturally, and can take a little more
Your dilemma is interesting. In What Clothes Reveal a linen/wool blend is
referred to as linsey-woolsey (for obvious reasons) in the 18th century,
and somewhere they talk about cloth dyed in the wool...where a wool blend
is dyed and the wool takes the dye more or differently from the other
I'd always thought (and I have no idea where I heard it, I've known it for so
long, I've never second-guessed it) that dyed in the wool was referring to
dying the wool fiber before it was spun, as opposed to being yarn-dyed or dyed
as yardage.
Emma
That was what I thought, as well. Anyone else out there with a different
definition of died in the wool?
Ginni
e...@huskers.unl.edu e...@huskers.unl.edu 4/22/09 1:35 PM
I'd always thought (and I have no idea where I heard it, I've known it for so
long, I've never second-guessed it) that
dyed in the wool was referring to dying the wool fiber before it was spun
I am no expert so you may be right. I'm going by memory of something I read
a while back. But I do remember them talking about the difference showing
up in the woven cloth which was a blend.
As a spinner and weaver, dyed in the wool definitely refers to wool dyed
before being
spun into yarn. Yarn dyed in woven fabrics refers to a stripe, check or plaid
produced
by using different colored yarns/threads that were dyed before weaving, as
opposed to
printed on the fabric surface.
I
I was dyeing some linen today, so I decided to put a small piece of the pink
wool/linen in with it (using procion). Not good news. It became very clear
that the fabric is half wool half linen with the threads of both weft and warp
made up of a strand of each. The linen absorbed the dye
Lynn Downward wrote:
Which came first, the pink outfit or the idea that men in the arts are often
homosexual?
Well, since pink wasn't a considered a girl's colour until into the
20th century, I would expect that pink for music predates any
associations of pink with gay people. The academic
I have some pink from an exhaust cochineal bath that looks like it should be
walking down the Barbie aisle! Very, very PINK.
So maybe the question is: what does one do with 8 yards of pretty pink
fabricI know there is pink in pre 17th century stuff
I was dyeing some linen today, so I decided to put a small piece of the pink
wool/linen in
with it (using procion). Not good news. It became very clear that the fabric
is half
wool half linen with the threads of both weft and warp made up of a strand of
each. The
linen absorbed the dye
The Nazis used pink triangles for homosexuals in camps. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_triangle and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:German_concentration_camp_chart_of_prisoner_markings.jpg
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Susan Carroll-Clark
scarrollcl...@gmail.com wrote:
Lynn
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