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Taraxacum officinalis (Dandelion)
seed head

Canon PowerShot A590 IS
ISO: 80
Exposure: 1/200 sec
Aperture: 5.0
Focal Length: 19.6mm

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• from this wordless Wednesday May 25, 2011
• Dandelion

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Curtain Of Cables
Music Center Frits Philips
Eindhoven, Netherlands

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• More from this wordless Wednesday April 20, 2011

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• More from this wordless Wednesday April 6, 2011

Silk: dyed after folding

From Dyed Fabrics & Threads

Amazing, isnot it?
The silks were dyed as homework for Lesson 3 of the course "Silk Dyeing" given by Marjie McWilliams at Quilt University. In "Dying experiment: silk" you can read more about this course.

These are the results after dyeing folded and pressed pieces of the same kind pongé silk with cold water fiber reactive Procion MX dyes (click the thumbnail for a bigger view):

The patterns created are less striking than I had hoped.
I suspect that I've dipped the pieces too long in the dye solutions. But it was really fun to do!
I used the leftover solutions to dye silk, cotton fabric and threads:

cotton (l) and silk (r)

cotton

It is interesting to see how the same dye is attached to different fibers like silk, cotton fabric and threads.

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Dyeing experiment: silk

From Dyed Fabrics & Threads

Do you like what you see?
I certainly do!

These are the results after experimenting with different colors of the cold water fiber reactive Procion MX dye on pieces of the same kind pongé silk.

The Jacquard dyes, the chemical water and the soda fixative I used were from stock solutions made in August 2010. The dye stock solutions are stored in a refrigerator. My stock solutions are made from recipes described in "The Fabric Dyer's Dictionary". The techniques used for dyeing are (click the thumbnail for a bigger picture):

• full immersion:
  
  
  with Bright Golden Yellow
• partial immersion:
  
  
  
  Bright Golden Yellow
  overdyed by partial immersion with
  Cobalt Blue
  
  
  Bright Golden Yellow
  overdyed by partial immersion with
  Fire Engine Red
  
  
  first partial immersed with Purple
  and then overdyed by partial immersion with
  Cobalt Blue
• sprinkling:
  
  Bright Golden Yellow
  sprinkled with
  Fire Engine Red

To see the results of one dye color on several different kinds of silk I did a full immersion with Fire Engine Red:

overview and detail of
old pillow silk (dupion?)(l) and organza (r)

overview and detail of
bourette 34 (l) and 22 (r)

overview and detail of
chiffon straight(l) and crinkle (r)

overview and detail of
pongé 5 (l) and taffeta (r)

Part of the experiments were done as homework for Lesson Two of the online course "Silk Dyeing" given by Marjie McWilliams at the Quilt University.
To work with the recipes given by Marjie I had to do some math to dilute my stock solutions.
I wanted to know if my solutions were still good enough. If they were not, the alternative was overdyeing with freshly made solutions.

Marjie's wonderful website is Fabric Designs.com.
She shows many magnificant examples of her dyeing methods at her blog "Marjie's Dye Studio".

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playing with transfer paint & stitches
(click picture for a better view)

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• More from this wordless Wednesday October 6, 2010

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headstone in Lebuinus Church
Deventer (Netherlands)

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• More from this wordless Wednesday September 22, 2010

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Photograph made in the Dordogne, France.
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• More from this wordless Wednesday August 4, 2010

Nature 's colours: violet and plum

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Joen Wolfrom already wrote about it in her book
"Color Play": "Nature is a wonderful color reference for creating quilt designs".

An extra dimension is added by the magic of dyeing your own fabrics as I discovered during the last weeks.

These are both flowers from the one and only Hydrangea in our garden. The Procion dye gradations are on scoured Kona bleached white cotton PFD:

Violet on half Fat Quarters,
made with Jacquard's Violet 231:

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Plum on Fat Quarters:

From Dyed Fabrics

I found the recipe for the colour Plum in the Mixing Chart at Jacquard's website.
Although the recipe describes a mixture of Jacquard's 040 Fuchsia and 072 Medium Blue, it might not be a problem if you use dyes from another supplier.
Paula Burch's Procion MX dye chart is a reference quide in finding the same colour from another supplier.

It all comes down to the MX code of the pure fiber reactive Procion dye: Jacquard's 040 Fuchsia, Dharma's #13 fuchsia red, Prochem's #308 fuchsia, STV's (Stof Tot Verven) Rose Toermalijn etc. are all names for the same Red MX-8B. And Jacquard's 072 Medium Blue, Dharma's #26 sky blue, etc. are all names for the same Blue MX-R. If the MX code is missing at your dye supplier's list, you can ask your supplier for it or experiment and have fun with another, look-a-like colour.

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• Joen Wolfrom's website
• Paula Burch's All About Hand Dyeing
• Jacquard's colour chart
• Dharma's colours
• Colours from Stof Tot Verven
• A supplier of Jacquard products in Europe: the Patchworkshop in Germany
• More recipes to dye: the Fabric Dyer's Dictionary

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Photograph made in Sarlat, France.
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• More from this wordless Wednesday July 14, 2010
• Sarlat

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Photograph made at "Jardins de Marqueyssac", the gardens of Marqueyssac in the Dordogne, France.
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• More from this wordless Wednesday June 30, 2010
• Marqueyssac

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Photograph made at "Jardins de Marqueyssac", the gardens of Marqueyssac in the Dordogne, France.
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• More from this wordless Wednesday June 23, 2010
• Marqueyssac

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Photograph made from a Magnolia in a friend's garden, the Netherlands. Thank you for your visit!



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Golden Earring

Some pictures and a video fragment of the concert of the Golden Earring October 14th at my hometown:

before the concert
Rinus Gerritsen on bass	in action
Rinus Gerritsen: bass Cesar Zuidewijk: drums, percussion
left: Barry Hay (vocals, guitar) right: George Kooymans (guitar, vocals)
Cesar Zuidewijk
video fragment of Cesar giving a show

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