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TEXTILE DYEING sa BATIK sa IKAT sa SILK DYEING sa TEXTILE PAINTING & STENCILING sa WOOL DYEING x DYEING TEXTILE xx TEXTILE xx TEXTILE CRAFT xx TEXTILE PAINTING & STENCILING How to dye at home using package dyes. Includes tips on tie-dying, ombre or shaded dyeing, and stencil dyeing. Dyeing as a way of life. How to dye fabric for making a rainbow of pillows, a fat sofa, canvas "paintings", clothes, wicker baskets and furniture. Tips: How to avoid the odor when soaking black walnut hulls to make dye. A plug of chewing tobacco soaked in ammonia makes an oak-colored dye for basket reed. Tip on canning the remainder of a dye solution to preserve it for reuse. Tips on how to dye fabrics at home. Braid dyeing. Strips of fabric are braided, dyed and then untied and ironed. Technique produces a rippling print. Homemade dyes in nature's colors. How to dye wool yarn with onion skins, walnut hulls and other items. How to grow dye plants in your garden. Tips on spatter-dying fabric. Tie-dyed pillow shams. Instructions for five tie-dyed patterns: (1) Running Brave, (2) Snake Skin, (3) Pinto Pony, (4) Criss-Cross, and (5) Night Clouds. How to tie dye. Tip: How to tea-stain fabric for an antique look. Staining and dyeing fabric for unique dollmaking cloth that creates an aged look or darker skin tones for ethnic dolls. Describes dyes using coffee, tea, red and yellow onion skins, and black walnuts. Tip: Pre-wash fabric before dyeing to remove sizing. Recipe to achieve the tea dyed look on fabric for cloth dolls. Advanced needle sculpting. Dyeing nylon stocking. Technique describes how to dye white nylon stockings for a layering method called "opalescence" that produces more perfect skin tones. Learn how to do natural dyeing. Simple dyeing and mordanting procedures. Learn the secret of controlling shades of pastel colors with a specially formulated cold water dye that won't shrink cotton fabrics. How to tie-dye T-shirts with Kool-Aid as the dyestuff. A project kids can do. Dye is the key to international fashions. How to perform old world fabric dyeing techniques. Silk cloisonne. Direct-dye painting technique combines textile painting, fabric sculpture and batik. How to dye wool with ordinary vegetable materials (onion skins, carrot tops, avocado pits, walnuts, saffron, coffee and tea). How to dye yarn with natural dye stuffs. Includes dye recipes for peach leaves, black walnut, elderberries, goldenrod, logwood, greenbriar, umbilicara, onion, camellia and sassafras. Dramatic tie-dye. Three different tie-dyeing techniques for a T-shirt. Dyeing natural fabrics (China silk, Swiss cotton batiste, linen, ...) using granular dye. How to dye clear vinyl plastic. Hooded ponchos, sewn from plastic using a Simplicity pattern, are dyed a rainbow of colors using Rit dye. Guide to home-dyeing. Some tips. The art of natural dyeing of yarn. Photos show the basic steps. The magic of indigo. How to dye with indigo. Instructions for dying with fiber-reactive dyes. Includes a dye bath recipe for dying one pound of woven cloth and a dye-paint recipe. Warp painting with Inko dyes. Includes instructions for a rectangular shawl with floral designs. How to dye with onion skins, using different mordants for differences in color. Includes instructions for a simple woven overshirt. Dyeing with indigo. Covers mixing the stock solution and preparing the vat. How to dye rainbow fleece. Answers to common problems dyers encounter. Painting weft threads for tapestry. Dyeing your own yarns for tapestry weaving. Spring plants as a source of natural dyes. Looks at chicory, blue-flowered lettuce, prickly lettuce, tumble mustard, pepperweed, and curly dock. Dyeing to order. How to make custom dyeing a routine. A guide to prairie plants that can be used as a dye source. Includes prairie sunflower, Russian thistle, mallow and horseweed. Printing with natural dyes, an historical perspective. Tips on experimenting with fabric and yarn dye kits (sample kits produced by various companies). Includes instructions for weaving a brazilwood-dyed scarf. Portable "dye lab" to take on vacation so you can test the yarn dyeing qualities of new plants you discover. Tips on using juicy fruits and nut hulls to dye textiles. Color it plaid. Tips on dyeing yarn to be used in weaving tartans and plaids. How to achieve color variations from the same natural dye bath by using different mordants and additives. How to test dyes for their colorfastness. A spring bouquet of shawls. Three shawls that are varied by using different overshot borders and different colors of dye. Includes dying procedure using Cushing dyes. How to dye pastels. Includes the history of pastel dying and how to get a light tint from any dye. Dye a bundle. Use one dyepot, fabric scraps and thrums (short pieces of yarn) to create an interesting assortment of materials for a freeform embroidery piece. Dyes for painting warps. Includes step-by-step procedure for warp painting. Covers major commercial dyes including Procion, Ciba, Inkodyne, Tinfix, Versatex, Deka, and Napthol. Also includes information on disperse dyes and heat transfer. Dyeing with Annatto. Tips on dyeing with synthetics. Tips on dyeing with daisies. Dyeing with the noxious bindweed. A history of thistles and information on using Canadian thistle as a dye. How to collect three lichens for dyeing: old man's beard, reindeer's moss and stag's horn. Band weaving. Suggestions on yarn choices and how to use the bands as trims. Includes instructions for four inkle bands: a folded band, a soumak band, a pick-up on horizontal stripes and pick-up on basket weave. Card-woven bands in diamond, oval, little-girl, two-way turning and braids are explained. Inserts explain how to warp and weave with cards and on an inkle loom, as well as how to warp-paint on an inkle loom. Three projects are included: (1) A woman's jacket sewn from a commercial pattern and trimmed down the front with bands of card-woven trim. (2) A magazine tote (book cover) with offset inkle-woven bands sewn together to decorate the front. A narrow card-woven band fastened inside the tote serves as a bookmark. (3) A double-weave chenille vest that can be worn by either sex. Lining is weft-face straight twill with chenille weft. Outer fabric is weft-face reverse twill stripes alternating between colorful pearl cotton and white chenille in a four-harness weave. A squared cutting pattern for the vest is included. Do-it-yourself guide to space-dyed yarn. Tricks and techniques used in commercial dye processes are explained. How to make textile dyes from currant stems and leaves. Surface design techniques. Three methods of dyeing are discussed (printing, resist and direct dye applications). Two easy dye methods. (1) Oven dyeing. (2) Microwave dyeing. How to overdye leftover yarns to create an assortment of color-compatible yarns. Includes instructions for overdyeing with both natural and union dyes. Tip: Produce shades of blue-green, blue, blue-gray or purple on wool yarn by using copper pennies and ammonia in the dyepot. Summer-weight blouse with a square neckline and flange sleeves. The plain-weave fabric is woven with two space-dyed yarns so that it resembles tweeds woven with color-flecked yarns. Includes space-dyeing, weaving and sewing instructions. Warp painting. Sections of warp are dyed separately while stretched flat on a sheet of plastic. Includes mixing and setting instructions for Lanaset (Telana) dyes and Cibacron F or other fiber-reactive dyes. This is an excerpt from the Summer 1988 issue of Color Trends. Rag rug, 25"x40", is woven in Log Cabin plain weave. Rags from old blue jeans, overdyed with non-reversible dyes, are used for the weft. Article describes the basics of overdyeing. Recipe for a weak acid dye that will produce a medium gray. Fiber dyed with this grey and then blended and spun can produce an opalescent effect. Tips on dyeing with lichens. Historical uses of urine and chamber lye, the dried residue of urine, in dyeing and fulling cloth described. Includes suggestions on using urine as a substitute for other alkaline solutions. Dyeing linen yarns with onion skins and Brazilwood. Includes notes on mordant and additive techniques used by a 16th century dyer. Weaving ideas to use with young children. (1) Tube weaving on a cardboard loom. (2) Trivet woven on a circle of cardboard. (3) Rigid heddle loom made from popsicle sticks. (4) Weaving with drinking straws. (5) Solar dyeing using Kool-aid. (6) Slentra braids. Rainbow dyeing. Color mixing is achieved by dipping portions of a skein or warp in different dye baths to produce gently graduated colors. Describes dyeing silk with Ciba dyes. Dyeing drab-colored fabrics and yarns using natural sources of tannin and mordants to darken or intensify the colors. General descriptions of some unusual techniques that achieve unique textile effects. (1) Supplementary warp stripe woven as separate layer, pulled up into a loop or twisted and then held in place by weaving it back into the ground cloth. (2) Use of yarns that exaggerate the three-dimensional character of a weave. (3) Use of yarn substitutes (wire, dowels, etc.). (4) Using discharge paste, a color remover, on fabric to change colors. (5) Transfer a color photocopy image to cloth using Stripeze paint remover. (6) Strip quilting of dispersal-dyed fabric. A quick overview of dyeing. Discusses some typical problems and a few solutions that may help. Painted-warp belts. A good first project for exploring the art of painting warps with Cushing dyes. Belts are woven in warp-faced plain weave. Discharge dyeing by direct screening. Includes instructions for making a silk screen and the discharge and neutralizing solutions. Also includes instructions for handweaving a "Wisteria Petal" scarf which is screen printed with dye discharge after weaving. How to produce 48 colors from just 12 dyebaths through the use of overdyeing. Process uses fiber-reactive dyes. Note on avoiding dyeing in a microwave used for food preparation. A lesson in overdyeing. Advice on color planning, selection of a suitable dyestuff and testing an original dye color for reversibility. Dyes from nature. Experiments with elderberries, black walnuts, hickory bark, sumac berries, poke berries, ferns, grasses, and mullein blossoms. Shibori. A Japanese resist-dye technique explained. Shades of green. How to use top-dyeing to get a colorfast green on natural fibers. First dyebath is a bright yellow achieved from osage orange chips and alum nordant. The top dye is indigo. Differential dyeing. A technique for dyeing fabrics woven with different fiber types and dip-dyed in multiple dyes that react different ways with different fibers. Includes a chart for fiber-reactive dyeing on both plant and animal fibers. Experiments in copper penny dyeing. Dyeing with indigo. Includes a recipe for a fast-acting dye vat and how to keep the vat cooking. Cotton colors. A discussion of mordants and natural dyes that are effective on cotton. Felt watermelons. An inexpensive and safe textile activity to do with elementary school students. Fleece is dyed in a microwave using Kool-Aid as the dyestuff. Then dyed fleece is felted in a layered ball and cut into wedges. Space-dyeing chenille with fiber-reactive dyes. Also includes general instructions for weaving with the space-dyed yarn as a warp. Growing and using Hopi Indian dye seed crops (Helianthus annuus, Phaseolus vulgaris and Zea mays). A guide to lichens and instructions for dyeing with umbilicaria. Tips on discovering natural dyestuffs for wool yarn along the roadsides. Includes notes on five basic mordants and the amounts to use when making a dyebath. Twenty-four plants and their colors are listed. Saffron (saffron crocus). Looks at the history, cultivation, and uses. Includes instructions for dyeing with saffron. Dyeing by the yard: (1) Dyeing handspun fabric (2) Yarn-dyed fabric (3) Piece-dyed fabric (4) Variegated yardage (5) Piece-dyed with natural dyes and pre-mordanated yarn. Dyeing with willows, cottonwoods, aspens, and poplars. A dyer's guide to alkanet (anchusa tinctoria). The Centroid colors, what they are and how a dyer can use the charts. How to dye with oak galls. Kool-Aid kites. How to dye nylon fabric using unsweetened instant drink mix and other ordinary household chemicals. Technique for dyeing and printing on ripstop nylon. Includes instructions for building a fabric steamer, choosing fabric and dyes, mixing, etc. How to dye and hand print white wool challis to use in sewing shawls, dresses and skirts. Classic shibori jacket (a short kimono) to make from cotton fabric that is dyed with Indigo. Instructions for tie-dyeing the cotton in elaborate patterns to create a completely reversible jacket. Directions for dyeing your wool to use in hooking rugs. Two elegant shawls to weave from hand-dyed yarns. Includes dyeing instructions. Tie-dye fashions. Describes how to tie-dye purchased cotton clothing. Includes instructions for making and dyeing a front-wrap sarong. Solar dyeing. How to color fabric and wool with natural dyestuffs (such as marigold petals). Plant a dyer's garden. A guide to the plants you can grow and some that can be found in the wild that are used as a source for natural dyes. Natural dye recipies: spinach, red onion, tea, rhubarb, carrots, cranberries, blueberries, cherries, elderberry, milkweed, dandelions, goldenrod, mullien, red cabbage, Queen's Anne's lace, marigolds, camomile, black walnut, coffee. An introduction to rug hooking on burlap with strips of woolen flannel. Includes instructions for dyeing the wool. How to marbleize fabric. Using hand-dyed fabrics in quilts. Instructions for using Cushing dyes to make gradations of eight shades for each color. Also includes pattern for "Condomium" pieced quilt block, one of two quilts pictured with the article. Winter dyeing with umbilicate lichens. Describes collecting the lichens, preparing the dyestuff and dyeing. Recipe for dyeing with woad, a plant which yields blue dye. Adventures in dyeing with wood and bark. General procedures for working with wood and bark dyestuffs. Includes a chart of 19 woods, the parts used, the mordant used, and the resultant color. Description of planting Indiogofera Tinctoria seeds, raising the plant, extracting the indican dye and dyeing yarn skeins. Exotic woods for the dyepot. Experiments using sawdust, shavings and scraps of Padouk, Pruple Heart (Amaranth), Rosewood, Cocobolo (Nicaragua Rosewood), Brazilwood, Ebony, Osage orange and Redwood described. Solar dyeing of yarn. General instructions and recipes for dill, leaves, madder, and cochineal, plus chart of other materials. Dyeing and spinning cotton lint (raw cotton fiber). Health hazards in the arts and crafts. A report on the issues covered at the Society for Occupational and Environmental Health conference (October 1978). Covers problems dealing with the fiber arts (dyes, fibers and lead). Includes recommendations on protection, labeling and sources of information. Microwave dyeing. How to dye yarn or fleece in a microwave oven with acid or natural dyes. Some new rules for dyeing. Mushroom dyes. Description of working with cortinarius phoeniceus and Hydnum imbricatum. Report on natural dyeing experiments by the Spindle and Dyepot Guild of Wisconsin includes experiments with woad, red cabbage, Indian corn and pokeberries. Natural dyeing. Part 1. Considerations in the selection and application of natural dyes: Mordant selection. Novelty Yarns. How to create color and texture through experimenting with a variety of wools and in the dyepot. Natural dyeing. Part 2. Considerations in the selection and application of natural dyes: dye-plant selection. Fiber reactive dyeing. A technique of tying and dyeing warp or painting a warp with cold-water, fiber reactive dyes. Result is a combination of ikat and painted warp. The madder saga. Information on the history and cultivation of madder. Mineral dyes. Part 1. A look at their history plus instructions for scouring and dyeing with iron buff, the Prussian blues and manganese brown. Mineral dyes. Part 2. Instructions for dyeing with chrome yellow, chrome green and dyeing with combinations of minerals. Plant pigments and natural dyeing. A guide to identifying plants taxonomically so that they can be chosen to produce specific dye colors. How to do acid dyeing. A useful one-pot natural dye technique. How to spray-dye to obtain space-dyed yarns. How to do fiber-mix dyeing (cross-dyeing) of textiles. How to collect and dye with mushrooms. How to create variegated, multicolored yarns with natural dyes. How to manipulate fermented umbilicate lichen dye vats to produce a range of tones. "Dyeing in the cloth" technique exploits the differences in dye uptake found in various fibers. Kool-Aid dyeing with children. Includes tips for adult Kool-Aid projects. Novelty dyeing techniques that produce variegated yarn. (1) Rainbow pot dyeing with acid dyes. (2) Food dyeing of fiber or yarn using soft drink or gelatin dessert mixes. Verdigris, a new look at an old dye. Three ways to prepare verdigris (copper acetate) to create subtle blue-greens on silk, wool, and other fibers. Rainbow sheep. A pin for kids to make from felt scraps and yarn. Includes instructions for quick and easy feltmaking and rainbow dyeing with powdered drink mix. Mud cloth. Technique for coloring cloth in the manner used by African artists. How to create novelty yarns. Covers dyed, carded fleece, space-dyed roving, handspun/commercial combinations, space-dyed yarn, crepe, adding nubs, loopy yarns, and plying commercial yarns. Pointillist color effects in spinning. Tips on a "rainbow" dyepot using union dyes (those that will dye animal as well as vegetable fibers). Hints for beginning dyers. Dyeing mohair with acid dyes and how to manipulate the variables to create a "random effect". How to dye fleece with acid dyes to create designer yarns. Summary of the Wool Bureau Testing Service report on musk ox fiber. Provides recommendations on spinning oil, scouring, milling, and dyeing. The importance of quality in natural dyeing. Preparing, spinning and dyeing mohair. Tips on getting started with chemical dyes. How to use natural dyes. An easy rainbow dye method. Making a dye from onions, alum, and cream of tartar. Hints for dyeing. Includes specific do's and don'ts for natural and synthetic dyes. Using red cedar tree cuttings as a natural dye stuff. Hay-box method for energy-saving dyeing keeps the dyebath hot for hours after it is removed from the stove. Two methods for drawing color out of lichens. Weaving a length of Buchanan tartan. Describes dyeing the wool with natural dyestuffs, blending colors, spinning the yarn, weaving the cloth and sewing it into a shirt. Recipe for a madder root dyepot. Plant a dye garden. Suggestions for plants that will give red, orange, gold, yellow, green, blue, purple and violet. Includes dye recipes and mail order sources for plants. Tip: How to dye mohair or wool with grape Kool Aid. Tips on dyeing with lichens. Production dyeing with natural dyes. Part 1. Production dyeing with natural dyes. Part 2. Instructions for dyeing with cochineal, madder, kamala, cutch and indigo. Rainbow-dyed cotton. A look at five obstacles to dyeing cotton fiber and how to overcome them. Dye in the bag. Use boil-proof plastic bags to get several color combinations from a single heat source. Quick and easy dye methods using common, inexpensive dyestuffs that are available from the grocery store or dime store. (1) Crepe paper dyeing. (2) Kool-Aid dyeing. (3) "Instant" dyepot that produces a blue-green using copper, ammonia and no heat. (4) Rainbow dyeing with liquid food colors and powdered drink mixes. Acid dye formulas to produce teal blue, plum, rose, violet and green colors. Tip: Dye yarn moistened with a vinegar/water rinse using food coloring. Tips on how to enliven a grey fleece by dyeing it. Garbage-sack dyeing. Wet wool fiber is laid on a black plastic trash bag, then sprinkled with vinegar and liquid dye solutions. Silk Kasuri kimono. Sketch of plan for weaving it on a 14" wide warp. Includes instructions for making a synthetic indigo dyepot. Tips on safety and health considerations when dyeing fiber using a microwave oven. Tips on cultivating cochineal and killing the bugs before using them to make a dyebath. Dyeing wool using medieval recipes. Describes preparing "strong water" (stale urine) mordant and dyeing with woad, madder, brazilwood, weld and gallnut iron. Make it first, dye it later. Custom-colored rainbow scarves and hats dyed using Cushing or Procion WF dyes. Applying the investigative method to the study of natural dyeing. How to determine whether a plant can be used as a dye source. Includes advice on prime mordants, using ammonia to shift from acidity to alkalinity, on record keeping, procedures, etc. An introduction to developing color skills in dyeing on fiber. A guide to the lightfastness of natural dyes. How to get gold and yellow dyes from onion skins. Also notes other common dyestuffs that produce those colors. Suggestions on safely disposing of dyestuffs and mordants. A short method of dyeing with indigo that can be used for cotton, linen, silk, wool and some synthetics. Stretching fabric in small spaces. Five methods for dyers and surface designers. Includes a recipe for a dye thickener and suggestions on some tools to create lines, dots and grids. Tip: Light-fade test for natural dyestuffs. Tip: A safety tip for working with fiber-reactive dye powders that keeps your work area free of spilled powder. Why bother with natural dyeing. A look at the pros and cons of using natural dyes to prepare fibers for carpets and rugs. Painting and brocading on the loom. Methods for painting the warps are described as are weaving techniques that create brocading (wrapping, tie down skips, satin weave and sateen pickup). An insert gives a recipe for thickened Procion dyes. Dyes from common herbs. Describes mordanting, preparing the dyestuffs and dyeing wool. Insert describes how to light-test (fade-test) plant-dyed yarns. Tip: Simplified version of four wash tests used by the textile industry to determine whether a dyed fabric will bleed. Three articles describe Western dye artists trying the Japanese method of resist dyeing (arashi shibori). (1) The basic elements of the process. (2) Modifications that one person, working alone in the studio or at home, can use. (3) How to achieve complex patterns and texture. Tip for determining the pole circumference for classic "arashi shibori" when you want diagonal resist lines at a 45-degree angle. Tips from two groups of fiber artists on how to organize shared work space for dyeing and printing textiles. A guide to dyes from mushrooms. Includes general instructions and dyebath recipes for eight species. Tip: Strain natural dye materials through old nylons. Master dyer Marian Clayden describes two dye techniques, clamp-resist and edge-dip dyeing, to use when experimenting with surface color and pattern on fabric. Tip: Use ordinary elastic to create a good resist when tie-dyeing. A simple method to use when teaching tie-dyeing to children. Rainbow's the limit. How to mix any hue, value and intensity with five synthetic dye colors. Includes a chart of dyes to use with natural fibers. Tip: How to dye fabric to achieve a range of related colors. Tips on weaving and dyeing uses for those spice-jar inner caps (with holes). Surface design on handmade felt. How to use textile paints and weak acid dyes as coloring agents to print and dip-dye the fabric. Resist dyeing made simple. How to use machine stitches and cooking bags to control shape and line. Advice on redyeing black cotton garments. Fold-and-clamp dyeing techniques for fabric. Shibori resist dyeing is used to create irregularly dyed cotton fabric for use in landscape motif quilts. Dyeing with a pleater. How to create Shibori-inspired textures and patterns using a smocking pleater to create the resist pattern. Advice on minimizing the potential damage from tannic acid when tea-dyeing. Dyeing with bleach. How to make extraordinary patterns on dark fabrics using ordinary household bleach. How to revitalize your wardrobe by dyeing groups of natural-fiber garments that are in good shape, but are boring or not color-coordinated. How to hand-dye or print fabrics for quilt blocks. Indigo dyeing and the problems of crocking. Includes dye recipes for indigo calcium hydroxide/zinc (for cotton) and indigo hydrosulphite vat (for wool). Indigo Blue-Pot Recipe Spice dyeing. Recipe for dyeing with chili powder included. Chemical dying of linen. Includes recipe for bleaching and methods for top dyeing and percentage ratio dyeing. Space dyeing with fiber-reactive dyes to produce variegated yarns. Rainbow dyeing, a process where dry chemical dyes in powdered form are sprinkled over wet fleece in the dyepot. Tips on the multi-color, one-pot dyeing technique. How to dye yarn with Kool Aid. Mother-wit and the dyepot. Inexpensive dye and mordant ideas. Planting a dye garden. Random warp dyeing. Instructions for steam space dyeing warps using Cushing Dyes. Dyeing with wood. A brief history and a formula for using wood shavings or chips to form a bath dye for wool. | |||||||||
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