Couldn't leave a comment for some reason so im replying lol I had by mistake made a peacock color (food coloring) that I cannot seem to replicate. Do you have any suggestions? Would love to see it on a dyepot weekly.
Wow! What beautiful colors! I am a silk painter and I use commercial dyes (DuPont Silk Dyes). I watch videos where they use Fiber Reactive Dyes in powder form on cotton wearables to show the color splits and they were GORGEOUS! This reminds me of that. I'm amazed that these are food coloring! I would love it if I could get some of these splits, breaks and/or strikes with my liquid dyes. Thanks for showing us some cool stuff!
I've been on another binge and I just love your infectious personality and I'm learning so much regarding both food coloring and acid dyes this is just amazing of you to share and do with us all ❤❤
The blue and teal looked so similar saturation-wise that the difference in the overdyed yarn amazed me! I really like the purplish color of the same ends dipped first, but the contrast of the ends on the flipped skein could give some really amazing results when worked up.
The teal breaking is so incredibly subtle that I wondered if I made a mistake picking that for this project. I was afraid I wouldn't see a lot of difference between the two, and BOY was I surprised!!
You should! It is a super fun color. I almost wish I did violet and copper to really show two exaggerated breaking examples, but these colors are so pretty I'm not that sad.
I'm definitely trying this with Wiltons violet. It's my favourite breaking dye as well! The first time I used it I had no idea it would break and I was thrilled with the results. Thanks for sharing all your dying knowledge :-)
I just stumbled across your channel and you, Miss, are quite a chemist. :-) Very informative content and seeing you so excited to share your knowledge is delightful!
The one with the more copper-y toned end looks like an intentionally patina'ed copper colorway. The color shift captures the patina process of copper almost perfectly.
Also, on the point of why you might have differences between mixing the 2 colours together before the dip or doing 2 dip-dyes : between the 2 colours, you have 3 molecules (maybe I didn't listen closely enough and it's 4, I think it is 4 now), so if you have all 3 at the same time, red has a faster rate than the yellows. Whilst when you had only the teal, the yellow was the fastest so it had priority. Am I making sense?
Well the bigger difference between having the Teal+Copper dip dyed together and then a Teal dip vs copper dip is that as the colors break, if I'm dipping a different rates the colors can bind to different places than if they were all in the dyepot together. It is easier to think about this with two colors, say Blue & Pink. If I were to dip dye in blue and then dip dye in pink, I may still have something that looks very similar to a broken violet, but depending on how fast or slow I dip you may see the colors shift in a different way. Maybe this is one I should do - a hand mixed violet versus blue and then pink.
This is beautiful yarn. I would love to see how you could get the same results, but using commercial dyes. They give you predictable results, but behave differently.
I don't have as much luck with many commercial dyes when I dip dye to break the colors. At least not premixed colors... I think if you add radioactive or fluorescent fuchsia to just about any other color and then you may see some breaking. ;)P
I have a Laundry Alternative Nina Soft Spin Dryer which isn't on the market anymore I don't think. I haven't reviewed the newer version, but here is my review of it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cDMp-qz1Yf4.html
Some greens break - depending on what is mixed in them. I believe I've dip dyed almost every icing color in various livestreams over the years. If the green has red on the label then we likely got fun breaking.
Dose of solution... I got 100ml of 1% stock. I break them half with water. 50/50. That is 0,5%? And when I break that again 50/50 how much is it? 0,25 or 0,025%?
If you add 100 mL water to your 100 mL 1% stock, you will have a 0.5% stock (0.5 g dye / 100 mL). If you add 200 mL of water to the 200 mL 0.5% stock you will have a 0.25% stock (0.25 g dye / 100 mL) So yes.
I'm so sorry about that! Color breaking is when a color mixture splits into the different colors of that mixture while dyeing. (Eg. a purple splitting into pinks and blues.) This happens because the different dyes can bind to yarn at different rates, where one binds faster than the others so one spreads out more. it's a lot of fun to play with.
