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