![]() I suppose when I put it like that, it's probably much more labor intensive and prone to mistakes than being selective with the mordant would be. I mean, I thought what they would do is fold the yarn into loops and only dye one half of the loops or something similar to that, and then dye the other half of the loops, perhaps letting the colors overlap in the middle to get a third color. I had no idea that space dyed yarn was created through the use of a chemical, or the absence of a chemical, rather than through a physical process. Although there were a lot of different methods of getting patterns and different colors into the fabrics, including things like tie dying and batik techniques which are still used today. I imagine they probably used space dyeing techniques with it as well in order to get different colors and patterns. I know that sounds kind of gross, but it must have worked. It was used so much in ancient dying techniques that it was considered valuable and I recently read that in some places people would have public toilets just so that they could collect and sell the urine to people who dyed wool. Lemon juice and vinegar are often used, but the most traditional and useful mordant is actually urine. I'd much rather have a couple of solid colors that were used in a purposeful way and you could probably do that if you were using space dyeing techniques sparingly on a fabric but not so much if you use them haphazardly on a fiber.Īpril 29, - Well, even natural dyes need a mordant though most of the time. Of course, this technique can be used with just two colors and that's not really bad, but often you get that wool which has about eight colors on it and when you knit them into something it doesn't have a pattern so much as it has a chaos of colors. Almost tacky, with too many colors forced into one space. It always makes me think of tie dyed t-shirts which were popular a few decades ago and which always seemed a bit too much. And as far as I know, there are no magical chemicals that can cause a blue dye to turn red. All dyes require mordants - it's the chemical that makes the dye permanent (otherwise it wouldn't bond to the fiber). Some multicolored yarns are made by computerized machines that spray dye on in different patterns. Yeah, I don't think this is entirely correct. I have made so many beautiful skeins of yarn. Also the blues take much longer to grab all the colors. Many many color tones can be achieved with mixing colors. Depending on the intensity I'm looking for is when I add the mordant after I have put color in the water. If i want a more solid tone i put it in a pot on the stove. I use the paint on a skein method or squirt bottles. Koolaid and Wiltons Icing colors are my go tos. I use vinegar as my mordant with simple food safe dyes.
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