I tried four formulas for 红 and finally came up with a bright cherry 红 通过 using Polar Red, a dye that 我不’t like as much as the others because it is considerably less wash/lightfast. But it appears the only way to get a true cherry/fire-engine 红.
然后,我将一组样本染色:

What is interesting is the incredible nonlinearity of the colors. 这里 is a listing of the proportions involved (skein #1 is gold, far right; skein #22 is 红, far left):
芥末 | 极地红 | 与前一个绞线的区别: | |
1 | 100.00% | 0.00% | |
2 | 99.73% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
3 | 99.45% | 0.55% | 0.28% |
4 | 98.90% | 1.10% | 0.55% |
5 | 98.08% | 1.93% | 0.83% |
6 | 97.25% | 2.75% | 0.83% |
7 | 95.88% | 4.13% | 1.38% |
8 | 94.50% | 5.50% | 1.38% |
9 | 91.75% | 8.25% | 2.75% |
10 | 89.00% | 11.00% | 2.75% |
11 | 86.25% | 13.75% | 2.75% |
12 | 83.50% | 16.50% | 2.75% |
13 | 80.75% | 19.25% | 2.75% |
14 | 78.00% | 22.00% | 2.75% |
15 | 75.25% | 24.75% | 2.75% |
16 | 72.50% | 27.50% | 2.75% |
17 | 69.75% | 30.25% | 2.75% |
18 | 67.00% | 33.00% | 2.75% |
19 | 64.25% | 35.75% | 2.75% |
20 | 61.50% | 38.50% | 2.75% |
21 | 58.75% | 41.25% | 2.75% |
22 | 56.00% | 44.00% | 2.75% |
请注意,前9个(!)样本–换句话说,所有的黄金和橙子–是90 +%的芥末黄。那’极地红有多强,黄色有多弱。
整洁吧?
I’现在准备染色实际的绞线。一世’我稍微改变了染料的比例,因为我需要在颜色序列中添加一些绞线,尤其是在黄色中。它’很难相信在开始时添加0.28%的极地红会产生明显的颜色跳跃,但是确实如此。在金矿中还有其他一些地方也存在明显的差异。这样我最多可以得到25-26个绞线,其中三个增加了黄色–这将产生更好的视觉平衡,因为第一组样本中红色部分比较重。
但是,所有这些都将需要等待一两天。迈克和我明天要开个聚会,除了打扫房子(这真是令人难以置信的混乱)外,我今天还需要做10磅杏酱来清理冰箱。 (杏子在糖和蜂蜜中浸软以取出汁液,因此在冰箱中。)我还需要将糖浆再煮成糖蜜樱桃,这大约需要一周时间’在他们之前值得一提’重新准备放入罐子里。
这个假期周末的目标:
- 打扫聚会的房子,开派对
- 按颜色顺序对前两批绞线进行染色(1批= 8绞线)
- 完成使织机变形(剩下的700根线程,剩下的1200根)
- 做第二批杏酱,继续做樱桃
That is aggressive, but I think it is probably do-able. My goal is to have one of the 披肩s done in 时间 to wear it to the Complex Weavers Fashion Show. (But if I can’t do it, I’m not gonna stress!)