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Creating my own color palettes

By: Lynda November 8, 2014

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I’ve been wanting to come up with my own color palettes made by mixing pure dyes. For those of you not familiar with pure dyes, they are single-hue dyes that are not made by mixing other colors. There are 14 or so pures to choose from. For this session I used Golden Yellow (aka Tangerine), Cerulean…

Mixing Fiber Reactive Dyes

By: Lynda December 14, 2012December 14, 2012

crafts, dyeing, fabric, fiber reactive dyes, recyclingfabric, fabric dyeing, fiber reactive dyes, Jane Dunnewold, mixing dyes, mixing pure dyes, recycling, The Art of Cloth Dyeing1 Comment

Even though I’ve been using fiber reactive dyes now for about two years, I’ve never mixed “pure” dyes to make specific colors. I always just bought the premixed colors. After taking Jane Dunnewold’s Craftsy class, The Art of Cloth Dyeing, I thought I’d try to mix some with her formulas. On this day I dyed…