Karen Kamenetzky Fiber Art

Avocado Dyeing Drying

Guess what color I’m going to felt?
Very interesting seeing how different fibers ( wool bat, wool prefelt, silk bombyx, silk hankies, silk gauze, alpaca yarn and raw curly cotswald wool) all took up the dye differently and created just what I wanted… subtle variations of hue. I only used Avocado and Sun Yellow acid dye. Another experiment was dyeing wool “nebs”-tiny little specks of raw wool that are the result of some step in wool processing. Lots of possibilities for those little buggers. So I tied them in a silk gauze bundle and threw them into the dye pot. Needless to say there were many escapees some of whom attached themselves to other pieces of fiber.

I figure it just created even more opportunities for complex texture when I felt it (later this week)!
 

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