Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Forgot to mention

I finally was able to get that purple dye to work, but I had to do some really strange things. Very odd and unsatisfying; I have a lot of dye in that bottle yet, and it's in many of my colorways; if it's going to be this hard to use I'm a very unhappy dyer.
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  1. Heidi Solberg ViarJuly 30, 2009 at 9:10 AM

    Isn't the difficulty of achieving a purple, or at least the extent to which one must go to get it, and thus its rarity and expense, one of the reasons why it was a "royal" color?

    Or is it because it came from fish? ;)

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  2. Mia McDavid/After the Sheep Fiber ArtsAugust 1, 2009 at 7:49 AM

    I actually OWN a skein of Tyrian Purple cotton dyed with actual mollusks, and, yes, it was very rare. Acid dyes should behave better, though!

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