fredag den 19. juli 2019

Overflod af uld -- Lots of Wool

Mandag var Piraten og jeg ude for at købe uld. Måske fik vi en smule for meget med hjem?  Uldgarnet var gulnet af at have ligget i flere år. Det bliver spændende at se, om vi får det hvidt igen.

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Monday the Pirate and MotherOwl went shopping for wool. Maybe we went a bit overboard. The wool had become yellow from laying around for many years, let's see how, and if, we make it white again.

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Her bliver det først vasket grundigt i badekarret.

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First a thorough washing in the bath tub.
Nej, så gult var det ikke. Vandværket havde haft problemer, og der var okker i vandet.
No, the wool was not this yellow. The colour is due to ochre from pipe repairs.

Så en skånsom centrifugering - ja, maskinen er næsten fuld.

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Then a gentle spinning; yes our washing machine is almost full.

Tørring på et stavær, Uglemor og Piraten lavede til formålet. Det er herligt at have træ osv. på lager.

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Drying on a rack the Pirate and MotherOwl made for this purpose. We're happy to have wook and spikes laying around.

Uglemor kunne naturligvis ikke lade være med at lege. Her har hun samlet alle havens farveplanter - og et par testere, til et forsøg. Dampet i toppen af den vidunderlige gryde - medens flere nøgler blev bejdset.

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MotherOwl would no be MotherOwl if she could refrain from playing. Here she raided her garden for all known dye plants, and some testers. The result were steamed in the top of the wonderful pot while more skeins were mordanted below.
Dagens skuffelse: Vild gulerod, der slet ikke farver ved kontatkfarvning.
Today's bad: QAL does not give any colour at all when contact dyeing.

Senere plukkede Uglemor og Piraten planter på en tur hjem fra byen, fra en lille tur rundt i vores landsby, og senest hentede vi tagrør nede på engen. De køler af nu ... det bliver spændende.
 
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 Later MotherOwl and the Pirate picked some flowers on their way home from shopping, and from a stroll through the village, and finally they picked reed flowers on the meadow.
More to come when they are cool enough to touch ...

11 kommentarer:

  1. I am finding the process fascinating - and LOVE that rack.
    Looking forward to the next stage(s). So much.

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    1. Thank you. I am dyeing and photographing when I remember. Writing will happen eventually.

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  2. A nice experiment, i hope it turns out that at least some of the coloring worked.

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    1. As long as I include some dark red hollyhocks, it won't be a total disappointment.

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  3. KAN man få for meget uld?

    Spændende med kontaktfarvning af garn - det kunne jeg da godt blive fristet af....

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  4. Det er vist et retorisk spørgsmål ;)
    Kontaktfarving er spændende ... ret ukendt land med mange overraskelser og skuffelser, og mange der ved noget, men holder kortene tæt ind til kroppen.

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  5. So interesting! I'm enjoying learning :)

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  6. I've done a similar experiment some years ago (blogged here: https://mamaladka.blogspot.com/search/label/%C5%A1entjan%C5%BEevka.
    In reality, the colours are much more intense than in the picture. I mordanted the wool yarn with alum which hekped achieve more vivid colours (and also more fast).If you don't intend to premordant yarn I'd suggest you carry on your experimenting with green walnuts, lichens, rhubarb root, bark from willow, alder buckthorn, taking care to somehov insert the yarn within the inner surface of the bark.
    And show us pictures of what you get please!

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    1. All the hanks were mordanted in alum as well ;)
      It seeps Blogger do not like your nice letters in your link. I try posting it again Link

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  7. Thank you! I've never managed to post my links in this elegant way :-(

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    1. I've written a post on how to make a Link like this.

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