Comments on: A match made in Heaven https://blog.bindandfold.com/?p=614 Naturally Dyed Naturally Made Mon, 29 Dec 2014 09:19:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: vic https://blog.bindandfold.com/?p=614#comment-60060 Mon, 29 Dec 2014 09:19:19 +0000 http://blog.bindandfold.com/?p=614#comment-60060 In reply to Liz.

Hi Liz,

Sorry for the very belated reply!
If your blue is going backwards you have too much hydros in your vat, and it is stripping the indigo out of your fabric when you do subsequent dips. give it a good stir and leave it with its lid off for 15 mins and try again.
really interesting on the onion skin! i’ve never used that because i’ve read it isnt wonderfully fast, but i should give it a try anyway.
I do hope you worked out your vat problems!

]]> By: Liz https://blog.bindandfold.com/?p=614#comment-12148 Wed, 06 Aug 2014 03:22:48 +0000 http://blog.bindandfold.com/?p=614#comment-12148 Hi,
I just found your indigo entry on a search for “indigo troubleshoot hydros”. Yes! the two cup solution sounds great. And I’m also hoping that the 12 dips will get me to a darker place – I had been thrilled by my first dunking into a very strong vat, but have had the sneakiest feeling that perhaps the blue was going backwards instead on subsequent ones. Will persist.
However – I normally wouldn’t get to an email stage mid-dyeing frenzy – but I saw your post on the yellow+blue = AMAZING GREEN and had to write. I found this out on some of my aunt’s onionskin dyed handspun silk (she was an early hippie) and made the most delicious forest green while exhausting my first ever vat.
Have just done a batch of onion skins onto unspun wool rovings – less than a plastic shopping bag of them made a huge pile of saffron gold dreadlocks – some I kept gold, but most are now gloriously green.
The plan is to make some dark blue russian style felt boots with green applique patterns – maybe with gold on top.
I really identified with your discovery of the hidden forest greens in our landscape – I grew up in the savannah dry north, and ached to see rainforest – but even in the gullies there were the occasional dark dark trees.
Look forward to seeing more of your dyeing exploits – I’m off now to scrub my hands – wore the gloves the first 3 times, then bloody forgot on the last dip, and they were in the pot before I could stop myself.
Regards

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