{"id":39646,"date":"2015-02-28T12:38:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T11:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/solving-the-problem-of-beige\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T21:48:00","slug":"solving-the-problem-of-beige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/solving-the-problem-of-beige\/","title":{"rendered":"SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF BEIGE"},"content":{"rendered":"

My recent attempt<\/a> at dyeing with fermented avocado pits was only partially successful – I got three nice pink-ish test skeins out of it (on the left, dry) but two skeins of sock yarn came out a drab beige (still in the pot, so wet, which makes the color look nicer than it is)<\/p>\n

\"avocadopot\"<\/p>\n

So I decided to tweak the color in the pink direction, but only a very little bit.<\/p>\n

This could be a general strategy for all those beige skeins!! Beige twisted towards pink is a very attractive color to my eye, an old dusty rose, but beige is just that – beige. My least favorite color. The color that makes even beautiful people look plain. So plain-looking people should steer way clear of it. Not to mention old wrinkled people.<\/p>\n

I made a dye bath with 1\/4 g cochineal. My ordinary kitchen scale doesn’t go that low, so I weighed off 5 g, divided them roughly in 5, and then took a quarter of that pile. We are down to individual lice, here. I used that on 300 g of sock yarn, two that were already avocado dyed and one white:<\/p>\n

\"avocochineal\"<\/p>\n

The avocado\/cochineal skeins are the two in the back, and the middle skein is the one that went into the same dye bath, so it got 1\/3 of 1\/4 g of cochineal. Not much at all! The two front skeins are two more fresh 100 g skeins of sock yarn that got each 1\/8 g of cochineal.<\/p>\n

I love all of these pinks, and what is even better is the light-fastness of cochineal. In many ways, the properties of cochineal seem closer to a chemical dye, but it’s all just from a small louse.<\/p>\n

And here is one avocado pit\/cochineal skein up close<\/p>\n

\"avocado\"<\/p>\n

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FACTS – AVOCADO PITS + COCHINEAL<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mordant 10% alun<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Water Tap (avocado pits) and rain (cochineal)<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yarn Sock yarn 75% wool, 25% polyamide 350m\/100g<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yarn:Dyestuff ratio 1:1 for avocado pits, then 0.08:1 for cochineal<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Conclusion The final color is lovely, and tweaking with cochineal could well be a general solution to the beige problem <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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My recent attempt at dyeing with fermented avocado pits was only partially successful – I got three nice pink-ish test skeins out of it (on the left, dry) but two skeins of sock yarn came out a drab beige (still in the pot, so wet, which makes the color look nicer than it is) So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[616,630,553],"tags":[628,554,557,563,624],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39760,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39646\/revisions\/39760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}