Hang on to your skeins, folks. If you thought the last few posts were long, this one is a doozie! So if you’d like to pour yourself a cup of tea and settle in for some deep colour analysis, here we go. Part 1: DOS TestingPart 2: Carded Approximations of Dye FormulasPart 3: Dye FormulasPart … More Dye School Part 7: Complements and Split Complements

Previous posts in this series:Part 1: DOS TestingPart 2: Carded Approximations of Dye FormulasPart 3: Dye FormulasPart 4: Monochrome colourwaysPart 5: Analogous colourwaysAddendum: Knitted samples I had initially skipped some of those analogous colourway experiments from chapter 3, because I ran out of Corriedale top! I ordered Polwarth from YarnCanada because it was what I … More Dye School Part 6: Warms, Cools, and Tighter Analogous Colourways

Previous posts in this series:Part 1: DOS TestingPart 2: Carded Approximations of Dye FormulasPart 3: Dye FormulasPart 4: Monochrome colourwaysAddendum: Knitted samples The handpainting experiments continue with series 2 of Deb Menz’s experiments from chapter 3 of Color in Spinning. “Series 2 – Analogous colors. Choose four colors to paint on each roving. Do fifteen … More Dye School Part 5: Analogous Colourways

Previous posts in this series:Part 1: DOS TestingPart 2: Carded Approximations of Dye FormulasPart 3: Dye FormulasAddendum: Knitted samples Welcome back to my personal record of the dyeing adventure I started back in January! I’ve now recorded a look at my learning process on the Wool Circle, which included a high-flying look at the 53 … More Dye School Part 4: Monochrome Colourways

Previous posts in this series: Part 1: DOS TestingPart 2: Carded Approximations of Dye Formulas What follows is my record of the initial results of my 48 dye formulas, as first mixed. Notes as you read this list: Yellow The yellows – particularly the dull and dark yellows – were some of the most difficult … More Dye School Part 3: Dye Formulas

Part 1: DOS Testing In dyeing samples, 1g is about as small as I could go and still have enough fiber to meaningfully measure quantities. (Professional dyers make larger dye samples.) On the flip side, if your goal in sampling is to make binder pages with small tufts of fiber, 1g is kind of a … More Dye School Part 2: Dye Recipe Approximations with Carding

When Rachel and I started looking seriously at using Color in Spinning by Deb Menz as a guide and inspiration for our Year of Colour, I became obsessed with chapters 2 and 3. Chapter 2 is all about the basics of dyeing, and chapter 3 is all about handpainting tops (she calls them rovings) and … More Dye School Part 1: DOS Testing