{"id":9474,"date":"2015-11-24T09:07:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T09:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=9474"},"modified":"2015-11-19T19:09:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T19:09:11","slug":"the-opening-salvo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/24\/the-opening-salvo\/","title":{"rendered":"The opening salvo"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Madder<\/a>

Madder Root<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Out<\/a>

Out Of The Bath<\/p><\/div>\n

I did study the techniques of dyeing and printing during my degree course, but that was industrial printing and dyeing, on a vast scale and using chemical dyes. Using natural dyes and working on a smaller scale will be a whole new adventure. It isn’t as consistent, but then that is the charm of it.<\/p>\n

\"25<\/a>

25 Shades of Madder On Silk<\/p><\/div>\n

\"A<\/a>

A Welter of Wonderful Wool<\/p><\/div>\n

So off I went, rummaging through the interwebs for an introduction to natural dyeing and finally found it via Twitter, in a workshop entitled “Twenty Five Shades Of Madder” in the Glasgow Botanic Gardens given by Julia Billings of Woollenflower<\/a>. It was fascinating, and gave me much to think about.<\/p>\n

Mind you, I might have given Julia and all the other lovely ladies on the course something to think about as well, because I had my quotation from Pliny <\/a>in my notebook to explain what an embroiderer was doing at a workshop, run by a knitter and attended largely by knitters.<\/p>\n

\"25<\/a>

25 Shades of Madder On Wool<\/p><\/div>\n

It did more than explain – everyone’s imagination went into overdrive! The idea of multicoloured fabric coming out of a single dyebath clearly enchants everyone, not just me!<\/p>\n

We even had a walk through the Gardens looking for plants that yield dyes. There are a lot of them – more than you might think!, and mordants (pre-dyebath treatments) and modifiers (post-dyebath treatments) make a lot of difference as well.<\/p>\n

So now, I have a list of books and DVDs to look at, and suggestions of other people to get in contact with or research – and someone to ask for help if it all gets too much (thanks, Jules!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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