
Last week I have dyed yarns for sale with cochineal. The lower yarn in the top picture was going to be multicolored, but again cochineal covered all the madder red I had dyed before. Nice color nevertherless. The other one is from after bath of the same cochineal. Both are dyed on grey wool and I have only 300grams of each.

These turned out better, the red one is dyed on light brown wool first with madder and then with cochineal. The purple yarn is dyed first with indigo and then cochineal. I have only 200 grams of these both, as well as the purple in the far right in the bottom picture. That color was dyed first with green with mushroom Paxillus atrotomentosus, mordanted with iron, and then with cochineal. All the other colors were mordanted with alum and cream of tartar.
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ReplyDeleteThe colours are so pretty, I love them.
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