Thursday, October 28, 2010

Dyeing with beetroot

I am really happy with how my beetroot hand dyeing experiment went. It produced a really variegated range of colours from mushroom to pumpkin. I can't wait to knit it into something.

I followed the same method as mentioned in the post below.

I used one tablespoon of alum, as a pre-mordant, with two medium sized beetroots, grated, and about four cups of water, which produced enough dye for one 200gm hanks.

1 comment:

  1. Love the colours from the beetroot and the raspberries. I'm going to try dyeing some wool soon, so thanks for the pointers. :)

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