Acid Dyes for Painting Wool

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My clown spore, BTW, came out GORGEOUS (as do all my dyeing experiments, even the really ugly ones). The fun thing with painting rovings, is that no matter how great they look going into the microwave, they look ten times better coming out - the colors develop and brighten and blend together in an amazing way. And Stephanie and I finally got the proportions right for the dyes - I am writing it down here so that when I forget next time what we did, some one else will be able to tell me.

Acid Dyes for Painting Wool

In a canning jar (preferably from spaghetti sauce you fed your family for dinner every night for the last two years, mix:

12 ounces hot water
1 tsp Cushings or Jacquard dye

Sprinkle in while mixing constantly:

1/2 tsp sodium alginate thickener (keeps the dyes from running into each other so much)

Then mix in:

1/4 cup vinegar

Stir well. These will keep for quite a long time. The instructions for the sodium alginate said to refrigerate it, which I am not doing, so I will have to see if the dyes get moldy in the garage or anything.

Joan
(7/10/00)

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