Blå ting -- Blue and more

Her er et sært billede fra onsdag morgen. Er der nogen gæt? Er det mon en blå zebra på afveje? En grammofonplade under vand. Et enhjørningehorn i nærbillede? ...

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A strange photo from Wednesday morning. Anyone dare to guess. Is it a blue zebra seen up close? An old record with Water Music? An underwater unicorn? ...

     Det er såmænd bunden af den vidunderlige gryde. Den har stået natten over efter at vi holdt plantefarverdag og farvede med indigo.

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It is what is left in the bottom of the wonderful cooking pot the morning after our indigo dyeing.

Fra venstre mod højre: Dagens blå dyp i gryden. Et garn fra sidste gangs blåfarvning, der nu er lidt blegere. Mørkegult overfarvet 2 gange. Lysere gult overfarvet 2 gange. Den mørke gule. Den lysere gule. Det oprindelige hvide garn.

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L to R: The new blue. The blue from last session, now slightly less blue. Yellow overdyed twice. Lighter yellow overdyed twice. The first yellow,. The second yellow. The original colour.



Vi gjorde den erfaring, at hvis man forsøgte at farve efter at al farven var brugt op, så affarvedes garnet igen.
Uglemor stoppede det første blå bundt i gryden igen. Ombundet med snore hist og her for at få et meleret garn, men det tabte lidt af farven over det hele. Sært.
Vi blev senere enig om at det natriumdithionit, det var i kypen må have virket som affarver efter at al indigoen var brugt op. Det er ikke sikkert at det er rigtigt.

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We learned a lesson yesterday. The indigo cookbook says that this dye is good for 1 kg of yarn. When we had dyed this amount, the dye bath still did not look exhausted. We put in some more hanks, they did not only not turn any more blue, they lost some of their colour. MotherOwl tucked in the first blue hank, tied in various places in order to get a variegated yarn. It lost colour all over.
We later agreed that the Sodium dithionite in the vat must have acted as a dye remover. But we're far from sure that this is the right - or the only - explanation.