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