Naturally dyed mohair / silk yarn
Written by [email protected] on Sept. 19, 2008 in Dye House News
You can see the results of a bit of tricky natural dyeing on the Bergers Cathares web-site. Five naturally dyed shades on a wonderfully soft yarn of mohair spun on a silk central thread.
Here is a picture of the 5 shades before they were packed off to the farm.
The dyeing proved difficult as the mohair is so fine it felts very easily and had to be heated up from cool temperatures to simmer very slowly and carefully, given lots of room in the dye bath, leading to smaller dye lots and moved with extreme care through all the stages of washing, mordanting, dyeing, over-dyeing and washing again.
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