Friday, October 3, 2008

Dyeing day

Yes it is spelt correctly!
Several of us spin - mainly Merino or Corriedale from local sheep - and once in a while we experiment with vegetable dyes instead of the usual commercial ones. These mini-skeins were each dyed with either onion-skins, red cabbage, wild dagga, guava leaves, pepper berries, or avocado peels. Amazing results from simple traditional methods.

2 comments:

Sharon said...

Wow, how interesting. I can see some great colors in there.

Webradio said...

Hello I don't know that, but it's interesting...
Have a good day...