Monday, December 13, 2010

More dyed silk

The wedding session must be nigh as I have dyed yet another length of silk for bridesmaids. Once again it was a silk georgette which I suspect is to be an overlay. I was given 13 metres / 14 yds which included extra for sampling.

The silk georgette was already a very pale pink but so pale that it did not have any affect on the dyeing. The swatch is the colour requested.

The sampling to achieve the right colour:

Left: a control sample to determine how the dye worked on this particular silk (silks can have a different makeup and resulting dye colours can vary). It also indicated that the depth of colour was too strong.

Middle: Dye quantity has been reduced by two thirds, and the one third of dye remaining had some of the red removed and a portion of a coral dye added.

Right: Final sample, as with the middle sample but the two dye quantity portions reversed. The colour swatch appears above.

Final outcome - not too bad really! Swatch sitting in centre.

3 comments:

  1. Not too bad at all. Absolutely brilliant!!

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  2. It is amazing to me that you do this labor intensive, very precise work as your "other" job, besides being an artist who lets things unfold in front of her.

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  3. As I wrote to you earlier, I knew I was behind in reading your posts, and now I can see how benefitial it will be for me to catch up!

    Thanks in advance for these posts Diana!

    xo

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