Indigo III

On the first attempt at dyeing with indigo we tried yarn, cleaned locks and carded wool.  The overall dyeing wasn't great (the dye pot wasn't ready) and too much agitation semi-felted the locks and carded wool.  So now that we had fixed the dye pot and had success with yarn, it was time to try the other types of wool.

Anne took a few batts (from the batt mountain), and came back with three wonderful blue dyed lots of wool . No felting and three different shades - based on the number of times in the dye pot.

Indigo dyed batts with a 'control'

The batts are 3 dips, 2, 1 and the normal CF batt.

Also dye related - I've started weaving the merino/angora scarf which has a blue feature stripe - and wanted to test the colour fastness of the dyed wool.  I decided to run the little bit of wool that had been dyed for this project through my normal wool wash 'cycle' - it passed with flying colours (or rather not flying/running colours)

Yarn in the rinse water.