Bad silk! no color for you.

Mar 31, 2008 17:23

Well, that was another frustration in acid dyeing. The color came out a little more on the red side of blue, but still medium in tone, as before, and that was after more than an hour in the dye bath. The amount I put in should have been completely used, since I put in less than the weight of the silk as I only wanted to overdye what was already ( Read more... )

dyeing, costume, gown, elizabethan

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sbuchler April 1 2008, 15:59:18 UTC
Warm fuzzies! Your experience is exactly why I avoid dying as much as possible - it always seems to go that way for me :-S *sigh*

Good luck!

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sstormwatch April 1 2008, 20:15:43 UTC
Thanks for the luck. Usually, my luck has been good, if not sometimes pleasantly surprising, in dyeing adventures. This is one of the few bad issues.

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