MAKING STOCK SOLUTIONS

Posted by Peg in South Carolina

I am spending a lot of time working with the drafts for this next green crackle project.  But I have not neglected (too badly) the dyeing.  The skeins, having been made and weighed are waiting for the next step.
Next step?  I do not have any Sabraset Navy stock solution. Nor do I have enough 1% stock solution of Sabraset Sun Yellow so I need to make a liter of that as well.
Yellow is a weak color.  That means it takes a lot of it to have an impact on the color. So I always go through yellow dye more quickly than the other dye colors. 
That means I have to make stock solution for SAB Sun Yellow fairly often.  That is not so bad because Sun Yellow has a tendency to form nasty small clumps of gangrenous looking curds if left standing for too long…………..
So the 1% stock solutions of both SAB Sun Yellow and SAB Navy are made. I only made a half liter of the Navy as I will not use much of it and, as I rule, rarely use it.

Now I have enough of the five dye colors to proceed with the next step.
1% dye stock solutions are much too strong to use for dyeing fiber that weighs only 1 gram.  It is very hard to be accurate with the small amounts of stock solution I would be using.  So I need to make 0.1% stock solutions.  And here are the five 0.1% stock solutions, three different blues at the back, two different yellows in the front.

Next step?  Get out the dyeing equipment and soak the skeins!

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“Making Stock Solutions” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on September 21, 2009. ©2009 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.