Indigo-dyed yarn a few seconds out of the vat.
Drip-drying.
Weld-dyed wool hanging in the Greenhouse.
Stirring the wool in the madder vat.
Hanging in the Greenhouse.
Shades of Dark Blue.
Indigo-dyed wool.
Drip-drying.
The weld-indigo wool.
The colours of the indigo-dyed wool as it is exposed to air over time.
Wool soaking as part of the scouring process.
Shades of Madder.
PH Sticks after testing to make sure levels were accurate.
Hanging in the Greenhouse.
Rinsing the dyed wool.
Measuring weld extract.
Adding wool to the weld vat.
Mixing the solutions.
Mordanted wool dyed indigo waiting to go into the madder and weld vats.
Adding weld solution to the dye vat.
Rinsing the dyed wool.
Combining all of the ingredients.
Madder and Weld.
Weld-dyed wool fresh from the vat.
Adding the indigo solution to the vat.
Drying parchment.
One of our lighter samples.
Putting wool into the weld vat.
Indigo-dyed Parchment and Wool.
Measuring madder extract.
EMPP Team Member Joanna working with a participant.
Madder Dye Vat.
Indigo just out of the dye vat.
Soda Ash, Spectralite, and the Indigo!
Participants at the garden plot.
Indigo!
With thanks to the Festival of Creative Learning, ECA Textiles, our volunteers, and our participants.
