This is where we begin. By creating colour on yarn, fibre, or fabric, we create the materials that we work with in all our other crafts. If you are interested in learning acid dyeing, please start with Dyeing Intentional Colour and then go onto Dyeing Complex Colour. If you want to learn how to dye cotton and cellulose fibres, please start with Fundamentals of Fibre Reactive Dyes and then take a look at Shibori Dyeing for more techniques. And if you want to learn natural dyeing, begin with Natural Dyeing Basics.
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This the lecture portion of the dyeing workshop that I hosted at the SweetGeorgia Studios for Knit City 2018 on October 1, 2018.
In this tiny tutorial, I demonstrate how I twist a skein of yarn from a loose hank into a twisted skein format.
Here are some suppliers and sources of undyed yarns and spinning fibres
These are a few of my favourite reference books over the years, and a great place to start building a dyer’s library!
Here are the sources for some of the studio dyeing equipment that we use for our dyeing courses
