Category Archives: dyeing

Rainbow dyed prefelt

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Life has been a little chaotic over the last week or so with very little room for creativity, all I have managed to do is a little bit of rainbow dyeing but I am hoping to make my first pair of felt slippers this weekend…

These are a couple of pieces of rainbow dyed prefelts:

Some rainbow dyed silk hankies, some of which I hope to use on a scarf for a friend (more on that next week), she chose the pink / orange ones in the top left:

This is the piece of ice-dyed felt from a few weeks ago, I used some of the purple prefelt to needle felt “shards” onto the surface before fulling. I had intended this to be a book cover but now realise I haven’t left enough felt to the side of the purple shards for the flap, it might have to become a gadget case instead…

Batik on Wool

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I was curious to see if a batik style dyeing could be employed for wool felt, here I have used liquid cold wax on a piece of rainbow dyed prefelt. I think you can see from the photo that the wax had a tendency to sit on the top of the wool so I tried to push it down using the nozzle on the bottle. Hot wax might work better.

I used some black  and magenta dyes over the batik and steamed for an hour. As you can see the wax has melted and spread across the wool.

This is the reverse side, no wax is visible and the dyes don’t appear to have been hindered from penetrating the wool.

This is what it looked like after removing the wax with a hot iron. Although the lines aren’t as distinct as what you get with cotton, I was surprised to see any lines at all given how the wax wanted to sit on the surface of the felt.

 It sort of worked but gives quite a delicate effect.