This time, I dyed three wools and two linens. One of the wools and the natural linen were given an iron mordant and the others were all dunked into the alum mordant. I wanted to see if it would give me different shades or even different colors. For the iron, I just used old SOS pads that had rusted. I keep them in a small bowl after I do the dishes.
The dye pot once again looks like spaghetti. I had the water and white vinegar mix at 70°C before I turned the gas off the stove. I just left the lid on the pot and waited for three hours to see what colors I might get.
This is just the wools after I rinsed them. They looked very, very Christmas red and Turkey Red! The linens didn't have much color so I left them overnight. I'm so glad I did. I also overdyed the onion skin wool that wasn't as bright as the others.
From left to right, madder with alum, madder with alum, madder with iron, linen madder with iron, and linen madder with alum. I need to show a close up of the linens because they are fabulous pinks!!!
This is more true to the color in person. The natural linen with an iron mordant came out a nice mauve and the bleached linen with an alum mordant came out petal pink! I'm really happy with the way those came out.
All the yarns I've dyed this week! There is the two linens with the onion skin dye, one wool with the onion skin dye, the wool I originally dyed with onion skin and then overdyed with madder, plus all the madder yarns! I'm not in love with the overdye. It looks more burnt siena in person than the flesh tone it shows here. However, I think it will go really well with some of the other yarns I have as a secondary color.
Besides, getting pink on linen really is the best part of all this experiment!
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