A Dyeing Attempt

One of my friends, who owns a weaving studio, had a white cotton warp dyed by the "TieDye Guy" who works in the same building.  I wanted to do the same thing, but it is a bit of a distance to travel there twice for it.  So I ordered a simple set of procion type fiber reactive dyes.  I made this white warp with cotton and mercerized cotton threads. According to what I have read, the mercerized cotton will be more brilliant in color.  That will add even more dimension to the cloth I weave on this warp.

 Then I took the plunge and am attempting to dye it as a multi colored warp.  I set up three plastic containers (they originally held yogurt.)  I mixed up dyes in each of the three colors (the 4th in the kit was black- no thanks!)  and put them in a row.
I put the warp chain in sections into each container. Part of it is in each color like this.

I also moved each one back and forth a bit to get the colors to blend. I know that all of it needs to stay wet for it to work, so I keep going back occasionally to help with that. 

I am curious to see if my process works well. If it does I am sure I will do some more warp dyeing. 

I guess you could say that I am a "warped dyer."  (it is okay if you groaned - that was pretty bad, I admit.)

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