Last week I taught my beginning dyeing class (fabric dyeing, just for clarification). I had a student ask me an important question..."what happens if I forget to put in the activator (soda ash solution)?" I am so glad that I went home and promptly home and did just that...please note a touch of sarcasm in this statement. I was doing a color-to-color gradation with fat quarters. I had orange on one end and a blueish-green on the other end. Students typically are happy with the muddy colors, but I thought it would be a good example to see just how the colors shift in this area of the color grid (or wheel).
As you can see I remembered to put the soda ash in the one bag... the orange. It was forgotten in the others. You might be able to see the slight staining that occurred on the other pieces. It would have been a nice sample set. Oh well. I now how a sample of what happen when you forget the soda ash activator!
As you can see I remembered to put the soda ash in the one bag... the orange. It was forgotten in the others. You might be able to see the slight staining that occurred on the other pieces. It would have been a nice sample set. Oh well. I now how a sample of what happen when you forget the soda ash activator!
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