SOME BRIGHTER RED-VIOLET WEFT YARNS

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There are four skeins here.  The bottom one is the intense red-violet from my original dye bath.  The top three are my recent attempts at getting brighter red-violets.  The two middle ones are not so similar as they look in the photo but they are close.
Here is the formula for the original (bottom) color:

15% SAB Sun Yellow  
15% SAB Scarlet 
20% WF Acid Magenta   
50% SAB Violet

And here are the formulas for the next three:

Red Violet #1       
15% SAB Sun Yellow
30% SAB Scarlet
30% WF Acid Magenta
25% SAB Violet         

Red Violet #2       
15% SAB Sun Yellow 
45% SAB Scarlet 
25% WF Acid Magenta 
15% SAB Violet

        

The Brightest Red Violet       
88% SAB Scarlet        
10% WF Acid Magenta        
2% SAB Royal Blue

The last is a beautiful red and I am going to try to use it, but I a going to try to find another one that is closer to the violet.  Looking at the formulas and the colors themselves, it looks like I need to include some of the SAB Violet, perhaps only 5%, and perhaps omit the blue altogether.  Also, perhaps a bit more of the Acid Magenta (which has a definite blue cast). 

Actually simply an 85% Scarlet plus a 15% Violet might get me what I want.
This dyeing, however, will not happen for awhile.  Not until I see if I have more dyeing to do.  If I decide to treadle a structure that requires tabbies, I will have then a lot of dyeing of 120/2 bombyx silk to do.

PHOTOGRAPHY NOTES

1. The little whitish pinkish thing on the lower left side of the photo is part of the nylon cord I used to hold the skein in the dye pot.

2. The photo looks strange because I was playing with getting rid of the background and just showing the skein itself.  Not a success but a move forward.

“Some Brighter Red-Violet Weft Yarns” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on February 12, 2010. ©2009 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

REVERSING THE TWO TIE-UPS

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To reverse the tie-ups I simply used tie-up #2 first and tie-up #1 second.

Note spell check at work……….

“Reversing the Two Tie-Ups” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on February 11, 2010. ©2009 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

RISING EARLY TO DYE

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I was determined to dye the rest of the warp yarn I so desperately needed.  To dye it this week.  An impossible week.  I finally decided on today—Wednesday.

I got up at 7—my usual time—but I cut my morning yoga very short. I also did not do anything with my hair…… I was dressed, breakfasted, and at the dyeing by 8:00.

To make life easier this morning, I had done a lot of preparation the night before.  The most time-consuming was to make the four individual dye solutions so that they would be ready to pour in the dye pots when the time came.  I also got all my equipment and supplies out, put water in the stock pots that would hold the dyeing jars, and put the skeins of yarn in a solution of hot water and Synthrapol to soak overnight.

I was finished a little before 11:00.  I could get on with the rest of my life.

One odd thing I noticed.  The yarn I was dyeing the deep reddish-greenish color for the warp looked gray in the dye pot for at least 30 minutes.  I worried a bit.  I needn’t have.  Sometime later it was the color it was supposed to be.  But this was a curious phenomenon.

Related Post:  My Warping Board Eats Yarn

“Rising Early to Dye” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on February 10, 2010. ©2009 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

COMPARING THE 6-SHAFT TIE-UPS

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After yesterday’s post, my next task was to check out the two individual tie-ups with the combined tie-up to see if I had made an error.  I copied each of the tie-ups onto a page in my e-journal to make it easier to compare them.  I discovered that I had not made an error.

 

No error.  Soooo…..what to do next?

“Comparing the 6-Shaft Tie-Ups” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on February 10, 2010. ©2009 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

6-SHAFT DRAFT ENLARGED A BIT

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This is the same draft as posted yesterday. What I did was to make the image a little larger so that I could see more clearly what is going on.

The wonkiness is still there, but looking at the treadling shows where the wonkiness occurs.  Now my question is, have I messed up on the tie-ups?

Related Post:  Combining 6-Shaft Tie-ups Continued

“6-Shaft Draft Enlarged A Bit” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on February 9, 2010. ©2009 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

COMBINING 6-SHAFT TIE-UPS CONTINUED

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Related Post:  Combining Tie-Ups in 6-Shaft Crackle

“Combining 6-Shaft Tie-Ups Continued” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on February 8, 2010. ©2009 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

COMBINING TIE-UPS IN 6-SHAFT CRACKLE

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I was curious as to what would happen if I were to combine the two tie-ups for 6-shaft crackle into one draft.  And this page from my current crackle sketchbook shows the result.

One thing I find interesting is how the design changes a bit in the blocks on the right.  I’m not sure right now how to account for that.

Related Posts:
A New Tie-up for 6-Shaft Crackle
6-Shaft Crackle Threading Treadled Overshot

“Combining Tie-ups in 6-Shaft Crackle” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on February 5, 2010. ©2009 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.