tisdag 16 mars 2010

Tröjan växer fram


Jag gav upp den runda formen från staketet i Oviken och valde istället ett mönster som jag hämtat från vävar i tekniken opphämta. Ärmarna kommer att stickas från ärmhål till mudd och axlarna sammanfogades genom att maskor från bak- och framstycke stickades ihop.

6 kommentarer:

  1. It's very nice Ulf!
    Are you familiar with the Procion line of dyes?
    I'm thinking of ordering some to increase my color palette for my rugs.

    SvaraRadera
  2. Thanks Lars
    No unfortunally not I haven´t heard of Procion but can it be used in a washingmachine? Colors for washingmachines dyes cotton and some of the acrykic fibers but not all and if you are dying a blend of fibers it will be more pale with more acrylic fibers. And you can get more effetcs by handdying, for example one side of the rag stripe in color and the other in white by painting a wet stripe.
    Well that was a sort of brainstorming and only the fantasie set a limit when you are dying.

    SvaraRadera
  3. http://www.dharmatrading.com/html/eng/3796-AA.shtml?lnav=dyes.html

    What brand do you use?

    SvaraRadera
  4. It depends what I´m dying. I dye wool with colorpowser from a swedish company called Färgkraft /www.fargkraft.com) and they have also colorpowder för cotton but I haven´t use them. I usually use ordanary waching machin color and in sweden we have Nitor and Hedins, I´m sure they have website too. But these color aren´t reactive so the color is just painted arond the fiber. Reactive colors react with the fiber and is almost impoosible to undye.
    The color on the linked webpage seems to be very good and it seems like you can mix different colors with eachother. If that is possible you can make any color you want with just red, blue, yellow, black and white. For example red+blue=purple, blue+yellow=green and so on. That is how I use colors when I dye wool, just a few colors but mixed to all kinds of colors.
    If you haven´t tried it yet you should try screen print with the colors from Dharma. And you don´t need a screen, just a bit of plastic that you cut a pattern and you lasy the plastic on a fabric and a bit scotch that you dip in colors and paint on the fabric. It´s really easy and you can do your own prints on shirts and t-shirts.

    SvaraRadera
  5. Thanks for the advice Ulf! I think the tie dye method would also make interesting fabrics for the rugs. I have some nice "found" colors, but I would like to be able to broaden my palette.

    SvaraRadera
  6. Cotton is very easy to dye and cheep colors for washing machines are good enough, you don´t need any expencive artisan colors. But if you want to handpaint the rags in different, colors have different thickness, silkpaint is the thinnest.
    I saw a finnish male rug weawer who used ragstripes what was about 2 cm wide and he wet them in water. Then he painted just the rag edge and the colors floated a bit into the stripe so that the rag had a sharp colored side that faded to white on the other side. I was very beautiful and very beautiful rugs

    SvaraRadera