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Silk Noils – Lilac
$4.50 – $20.25
Silk Noils – Violet 100% Cultivated (mulberry/bombyx) silk.
Medium purple-mauve, almost the colour of Thrills gum.
PRODUCT of INDIA
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Silk Noils – Rust
100% Cultivated (mulberry/bombyx) silk.
The best darned rust we've ever seen. Clear and rich medium orange-brown.
PRODUCT of INDIA
Logwood, Chips
Dried and cured chips from a tropical tree, Haematoxylum campechianum.
Use on protein or cellulose fibres. Pre-mordanting essential. Produces dramatic pink, blue, maroon and purple to black shades. Use at 20-50% WOF for medium shades.
TO USE: place chips in a stocking and soak overnight in cold water. Bring to a simmer for 1 hour, cool and remove stocking. Enter premordanted fibre and simmer for 1 hour. Bath may be used for successive dips, and by the 3rd or 4th dip the colours being yielded change to golds, greens or browns.
Light and washfastness: average. Keep dyed fibres away from bright light.
NEW: Logwood Extract: this has already been soaked out then reduced down to a powder. It's expensive but very strong and super convenient. Simply weigh out the extract at around 10% weight of fibre for medium shades, or adjust for darker or lighter. Dissolve in a measuring cup with hot (but not boiling) water, add to your dyepot with water, mix well, add your fibre and simmer for an hour.
Fine Merino – Violet
100% fine 19-micron Merino wool. Beautiful and clean combed top.
Very intense medium-dark violet purple. Very much like the wild violets that bloom in our village lawns first thing in the spring.
PRODUCT of ITALY, from Dyeing House Gallery.
Corriedale Magenta
Deep and rich magenta purple-pink. Looks very retro 70s with Lime. Dyed 30 micron Corriedale wool top from Ashford of New Zealand.