For Christmas my aunt gave me some gift money to enhance my craft supply stash, and I used it to buy more colours of Jacquard Acid Dye, which I use to dye yarn. These are dye tests on recycled yarn of various sorts; white alpaca, tan merino, light brown merino, and light blue cashmere. From left to right in the picture, these fibres were overdyed with my 4 new dye colours: aztec gold, brown, magenta, and turquoise. They form quite an amazing rainbow, as each yarn took the dye differently, and the way the dye colour interacted with the yarn’s original colour created many different effects. I love colour!
January 18, 2009 @ 3:26 pm
YOu’ve made beautiful colours. I love how they all seem to go together, even though the yellows are quite different to the pinks/blues.