#acid dyes

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Looking at buying my first acid dye kit and want to find something that let's me do immaculate jewel tones and maybe some earth tones.

Anyone able to suggest a brand or specific kit that offers that kind of range?

[bomberqueen17]

acid dyes in squirt bottles

I didn't take great pictures. I thought I had but I'm going back through and I just didn't take the ones I thought I had.

So, to start, I used the bottles you can buy from dharma, because I was ordering stuff from them anyway. I'd also gotten one of their kits on a clearance thing so I had gloves and rubber bands and such to hand.

what photos I have are behind the cut.

[image description: A silk/wool blend scarf, folded in half and also slightly scrunched along its length, lying on top of a slightly crinkled length of aluminum foil, on top of a plastic bag, with the bottoms of a few bottles visible at the top of the frame, and a plastic container with some dye in it and a plastic spoon.]

So here's the only one I photographed in-progress. It's a scarf, about eight by 32 inches or so? To the left it's pale yellow, then it's orange, then red, then fuschia, and then black at the far left end.

I had four bottles, so I had yellow, red, fuschia, and black in the bottles by this point. But I had two different colors of yellow dye, and I wanted a very pale color on the extreme end of this one. So I mixed up some of the pale-pale yellow in a plastic takeout soup container and dabbed it on with a spoon. I kept the right end of the scarf slightly elevated, so none of the darker dyes would run along under the underside of the scarf into that yellow section.

I've found that squirting two colors next to each other doesn't blend them very smoothly-- which is an effect to play with, but. I wanted a gradation, so I experimented, and smooshing the scarf around with a spoon carefully can do it, but the thing i settled on for this one was putting a lot of yellow and a tiny bit of red from the squirt bottles into another plastic soup container and then applying drops of that mixture with a spoon in the middle where I wanted them to meet, to get a better orange. (My motivation was partly that the intended recipient of this scarf loves orange, so ymmv with this technique.)

I did do one scarf where I did not attempt to blend colors but squirted them as standalones. I'd done a tub-dye in a pot on the stove of a brilliant blue, and I'd done some shibori-tyeing of scarves in that bath earlier, and they were out and drying while I did this. one of them, i'd tied far too well, and it had large expanses of white and then some very dark blue banding, and I decided that was too much white left for me. So I took that one and overdyed it with the squirt bottles, in all the white areas, in random splotches. To get green for this I did just get the tiniest amount of green dye powder and mix it up in a soup container and apply it with a spoon, because I did not have another squirt bottle.

[image description: here's that scarf, after steaming and drying but before ironing. An expanse of wrinkled silk fabric lying atop a metal drying rack is mottled with dark blue, and then is softly colored in splotches of pink, yellowish-green, green, and purple.]

A bit gaudy but kind of cool, I'm giving it as a gift to a preteen girl whose wardrobe I think it will compliment, but would have worn it myself. Couldn't get a pure yellow because the white areas had backstained pale blue in the rinsing, but the sort of violent chartreuse here is fun.

The black dried to a purplish-gray color, so next time I should do actual math on the dye amounts. I do own a kitchen scale and had intended to use it to weigh the fiber and the powder, like the tutorials say to do, but *jazz hands* my kitchen is tore upppp and everything I own is in boxes, so where that scale ended up the sweet lord only knows and I will find out before I do my next batch of this.

(the reader can swap in whatever entity they prefer for "the sweet lord" because i am actually not specifying, I don't want to know what kind of entity is tracking the belongings nominally in my possession because obviously they are not on speaking terms with me and won't tell me where any of that stuff is no matter how nicely and desperately I've implored, over the years, so I just assume we're not friends. I will reciprocate the disinterest, politely, as that seems wisest.)

And finally, for a bonus shot, here's a shibori-dyed silk/wook scarf I'm *very* pleased with, which I achieved using the blocks of wood the kit came with, accordion-folded it between and rubber-banded around it, simmered it in the acid dye according to directions, and then rinsed it. It was originally a really striking white in the excluded patches, but one of the other scarves it was rinsed with had a lot of excess dye still in it, so it backstained the white of this scarf, which I actually prefer somewhat.

[image description: a length of fabric, translucent, stretched over a drying rack. It is a dark navy blue with big splotchy white shapes connected by wiggly strings of white.]

The blue dyebath, I hadn't measured the pigment into and it had way too much. So I came back the next day and threw in some habotai yardage, loosely gathered and folded and then rubberbanded along its length, and then I had a wool/nylon dress that had become stained so I threw it in too, scrunching and rubberbanding it because I knew it wouldn't dye evenly. (There was already some acid in the dyebath from the previous use, which I think encourages it to strike fast, that's why they have you put the item in and simmer it a little before adding the acid? this is something I've surmised, so I might be wrong, but I just felt like I wasn't going to get a good solid color from this bath so I'd better tie-dye on purpose and hope for a cool accidental result.)

I was busy, so I turned the heat off after half an hour and let the goods sit in the bath until it went cold, and when I went to pour it out, the dyebath was completely, entirely, one hundred percent clear, clearer than the previous day's rinse water.

The yardage came out glorious:

[image description: my mother-out-law's immaculate basement (trust me, it really is) bisected by a slightly translucent length of silk habotai, gently mottled in deep blue and white, hanging from the laundry line in gentle folds.]

I might buy another batch of scarves, I have a ton of stuff I need to do fiber-reactive dyes on but I have the fever and want to get better at silk scarves.

But I have. So many muslins I have made out of real cotton muslin, and I can't really wear them until I've made them be some other color. So.

[trashpandacraft]

tour de fleece day five

ply two of sock yarn: done. no picture, because day after day of bobbins that all look alike seems silly--and the lighting in my bedroom isn't great, especially at midnight.

rolags made: two. haven't tried to spin them yet, so not sure how good they are. i feel like i always get unexpectedly bunched up spots, but i guess that's why i'm going this.

dye; i'm meant to do a dye of a bright or bold colour, which i rarely do, but i did it! an entire 200g, no added grey! i mean, ok, it was on a natural Merino nice that was white and grey, but that's for depth of colour.

photos aren't great, because my phone washes out red tones something horrible, but please know that in person, this yarn is a gorgeous purple with hints of pink and blue.

current household status: running out of shower space. the fibre was only about 90% dry when i photographed it, but we had a bit of sun, so i figured it was worth it. unfortunately, that means the shower—a cat-proof box—still looks like this:

[comfortabletextiles]

Dyed some wool (silk and Merino) for the spin along

I am excited to see how the colors will work together

[craftycoola]

dyearies: g&s dye triangle

project code, for future reference: g&s-601-620-624-t5-v1

since i'm planning a 'do you love the color of the sky?' scarf, and need to dye some wool accordingly, and am being a responsible dyer, i spent my weekend dyeing up a color triangle.

STEP 1: locate your dyes

i'm using g&s 601 (yellow), 620 (fuchsia), and 624 (turquoise). for acid, i used white vinegar.

STEP 2: plan your triangle

i decided to go for a 15-piece triangle (5 by 5, i guess? although it's an equilateral triangle so who knows). each bundle of wool will be dyed at 1% (10 mL stock solution = 0.1 g dye, ratio to 10 g fiber), with varying percentages of turquoise, fuchsia, and yellow (in increments of 25%).

STEP 3: make mini wool bundles

i separated 1.5 skeins (?) of knitpicks stroll roving into 10 g bundles. to do this, i divided the 100 g skein into 8, then stripped and redistributed until i had bundles of 10 g each.

little bit janky, but it works, and that's what matters, right?

STEP 4: mix stock solutions

y'all don't get pictures of this because i was busy leaning into the mad science aesthetic with mask + goggles + coat + gloves + most importantly, no phones.

the original plan was to do 1% stock solutions (1 g of dye in 100 mL water). that was the plan until i mixed up my measurements and added 1 cup to my stock instead of to my dyebaths. for various reasons -- a) i was too lazy to multiply quantities by 2.5, and b) there was no way i was getting granularities smaller than 0.5 mL with the equipment i have -- i switched course and added 300 mL (total) water to each stock solution, thereby attaining 0.33% stock solutions.

(i can feel all my science teachers of years past glaring holes into my brain. i was gonna just say 'chemistry profs', but then i realized even my middle school general science teachers are probably crying right now.)

STEP 5: form the triangle

i filled 15 containers with 1 cup of water each. then, i added dye to each cup, according to the triangle plan diagram above (tripled from the earlier diagram to make up for the accidental dilution situation).

STEP 6: add the wool

added the wool to the cold dyebaths. pretty self-explanatory.

STEP 7: set the dye

added 1 tsp vinegar to each bath and stirred. then, i set it all by cooking the jars bain-marie style for 20 minutes.

i heated them in groups of 2-4 because i only had 4 jars. and then 3, because i shattered one by shocking it in cold water. oops.

numbering each sample from 1-15, going from top to bottom and left to right (per the rl images, not the diagrams that i'm too lazy to fix), the groups were as follows:

1, 8, 11, 15

2, 6, 9

3, 5, 7

4, 10, 13

12, 14

i grouped them so that similar colors would be separate and i would be able to tell them apart later.

anyways, after the water ran (mostly) clear, i washed them and left them to air dry.

i'm planning to spin a few samples to keep, and then make the rest into a gradient yarn or something.

based on this experiment, i'm going to try dyeing a few more 10 g samples with attempts at formulas for the colors of the sky. we'll see how that goes...

[julochka365]

5/10.2024 (3) - had to use the fluorescent pink dye color, with a few little orange accents.

[meghmani]

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[solar-powered-potato]

I do not have the patience required for dyeing yarn. Dry. Faster. Gawd.

[duorganics]

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[allianceorganicsdigital]

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[orangep2r]

[measuredandslow]

How yarn content changes dye take up! The darker is superwash wool, the lighter is mostly cotton, and they came out of the exact same dye pot. Pretty cool!

(Dye used is Dharma Trading Co Fluorescent Fuschia and Fluorescent Lemon mixed)

[roboticchibitan]

Soup (mini edition)

Fire red, pumpkin, golden yellow, pink, and teal! Really enjoy fire red. It's more like. The color of blood rather than the color of fire. Pumpkin would be super pretty on a single ply yarn. Golden yellow is fucking orange to my colorblind ass. Pink needs a higher dye concentration imo and teal is really dark when wet (tho the dye bath did exhaust fully). Will see how it dries.

Overall happy with my little samples, though because I didn't stir them around they took the dye unevenly. I think pumpkin and golden yellow would be fine at 1% intensity if dyed properly but pink I think needs at least 2% dye intensity. I'll experiment more later.

[comfortabletextiles]

Dyed some fabric for the snail plushie

The yellow one is for the body, the pink for the house/shell. There is also a blue one that still needs to cool down, to have the shell blue/pink striped

[craftycoola]

how long do y'all keep dye stocks before tossing them?

[julochka365]

5/10.2024 - hot pink hands