Thursday 3 November 2011

Walnut wool

Beautiful  shade of light fawn from walnut husks, very pretty - well pleased with this. Walnut husks are a substantive dye, so no mordant required, just the husks and some water. I have a few skeins undyed of this - a lovely organic wool with 25% alpaca added , beuatifully soft. I want to dye each skein a different natural dye and knit something uber stripey I think! Dyeing for me, especially with natural and home concocted dyes is quite addictive.....................

1 comment:

mrsnesbitt said...

oooooooooooooooh can feel it's softness and warmth from here.