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These are quite spectacular, but not what I had imagined. I made an error in following Jan Meyers Newberry’s directions. I forgot that I was working on silk and not cotton. Black dyes do not dye silk the same as cotton so I ended up with red instead of black. These are the 15 inch wide scarves. These are the 11 inch wide pieces:
Here are a couple of detail shots of the larger scarves:
The turquoise and fuchsia scarves were not over-dyed with black.
Here are some random pieces of linen, cotton and silk that I threw into the dye baths:
Undaunted, I underpainted six more scarves and I will use silk black on them to see what happens.
I was not happy with the yellowish orange shibori so that is being over-dyed with rust and I am dyeing two more chartreuse scarves to be over-dyed with black.
I am having fun and focused!! Time to update the SDA website. I will check in with the new results tomorrow.
I would be happy with any and all of these, though I understand exactly what you mean. 🙂
I like the turquoise & fuchsia one the best. I also found out the hard way that “Better black” on silk makes red & blue mud. Corrected it with dye-na-flow paints.
At least the goofs are still gorgeous!
They are all just beautiful. I know nothing about dyeing – whatever you did – you had amazing results.
Very nice Gerrie, even if unexpected. I can see wrapping some of those shibori pieces again and using the silk black. That would give you two shibori designs. I am printing on scarves this week with screens. May do some wrapping.