I'm back working on the little loom again and incorporating some of my latest dyed yarns. A thin stripe of pinky mauve from the blackcurrants in the work and in the background are the yarns dyed in lavender leaves waiting to be wound into little skeins ready for use.,
Dyeing more fabric and threads for stitching and weaving. The colour comes from a tin of out of date blackcurrants. The darkest colours are silk, the bright ones cotton and the more brown purples are various wool yarns. I tied make a calico bag to contain the fruit but obviously some escaped!
I've just finished the first strip of little woven landscapes created on the tiny loom. Apart from the bottom one, the rest all use the hand dyed threads that I've done over the past 2-3 months. Time for some more dyeing sessions to see if I can get a wider range of colours and to concentrate on using only threads that I now know are ok for weaving with and not too bouncy.
These are the results of recent natural dyeing experiments. The pinks are from avocados, greens from daffodil flowers & the rest from conifer bark, pine cones, golden rod flowers & red onion skins. Various threads - cotton, wool & silk. I'm planning to weave some very small landscape colour sketches with them.
