Supplies for No Pot Dyeing  April 2008

Imagination !!
Apron
Gloves 

Plant material (flowers, onion skins etc.)
Dollar store Henna (if you can)
Turmeric
Frozen Blue Berries or cranberries or??

Old 100% cotton tee shirt (Frenchy’s?)
Old nylon slip  (Frenchy’s)
1 skein of natural wool (Farmer’s Co-op B’water)
(I will bring one silk blank for each person – Cost $5)

Plastic zip lock bags or clear plastic containers with tight lids or glass jars with lids large enough to stuff the fabric in.

Dollar store potpourri (only need 1-2 pkgs for all of us)
Salt
Plastic wrap
A few large plastic garbage bags
Needle and thread
scissors 

If you want to bring more items to play with – that is fine.  You can bring cotton trim used for embellishment,  cheap doilies from the Dollar store… anything that might take colour.

Supplies for Twice Woven Workshop October 15, 2007

- Use a 2/16 (or finer) cotton thread for the warp.  You should use something that is a bit hairy as it needs to grab and hold the weft which becomes the chenille – silk or mercerized cotton are not good choices.

- Table loom set up and ready to use in the following threading with 1/2 to 1 inch spacing between sets of threads.  Put all 8 threads in one dent of a 15 dent reed then, skipping 14 dents place the next set of eight threads in the next dent (for 1 inch spacing).  For half inch spacing you would half that placing eight threads in the first dent of the reed then leave 7 or 8 dents empty then place eight more threads in the next dent.   It doesn’t have to be exact.  If you feel the need to be precise, you can use a ruler to decide where to place the group of eight threads for your own requirements. 

The threading:

4-3-2-2-1-1-4-3   (8 threads)

2-1-4-4-3-3-2-1   (8 threads)

This threading is repeated alternating across the warp.

- For the Chenille

Thrums, of any size colour or thickness.  Whatever fibre you are using should be consistent – if using cotton (it doesn’t matter if you have fine and thick combined) use ALL cotton, the same with wool or rag for weft.

- Stick shuttles of the appropriate size for your loom

- Paper and pen for notes (there will be handouts)

And…Be sure to bring your enthusiasm and ideas to share with everyone