I have been doing some acid dyeing just for my own basic reference tool.
Greener Shades acid dyes have 2 blues - River & Coral Reef Aqua, 2 reds - Flame & Ruby, 1 yellow and black. Secondary colours - Sunset Orange, Amethyst Purple and Amazon Green are available too.
I created 4 colour wheels using the percentage system with slightly off white carpet wool. 2 Sets of the skeins were 20 yds. and weighed 10 grams each. These were dyed using .5% DOS (depth of shade) with Ruby Red & River Blue and .2% DOS which used Flame Red and River Blue.
The depth of the colour at such a low saturation point was surprising. The colours were very deep.
 |
| .2% DOS |
 |
| .5% DOS |
On another I used 10 yd. 5 gram skeins of the same type of wool, but the dye amounts were too small for accurate calculations with the syringes I had available. In these cases I used a small amount of water and only an eyedropper to measure by the drop. On these I added 10% black to each.
 |
| 10% black added. Eyedropper measurement. |
One more colour wheel, eyedropper method of measurement using 10% of the complementary colour.
 |
| 10% of the complement added. Eyedropper method. |
Then I took all of the colours I had from Greener Shades and did the same 5 variations with DOS on all using 10 gram 20 yd. skeins.
 |
| .2% .5% 1% 2% 3% DOS |
Overall good reference tools. Now I must take a sample from each and make a traditional wheel of sorts to make comparison easier.
No comments:
Post a Comment