{"id":39875,"date":"2015-03-10T15:30:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T14:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/a-gradient-in-madder-and-tansy\/"},"modified":"2015-03-10T15:30:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T14:30:19","slug":"a-gradient-in-madder-and-tansy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/a-gradient-in-madder-and-tansy\/","title":{"rendered":"A GRADIENT IN MADDER AND TANSY"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love color gradients! They somehow make the colors pop in a different way!<\/p>\n

I kept imagining a warm gradient, from red to yellow. Sometimes such daydreams stay just that, but with this, I have come incredibly close to what I imagined:<\/p>\n

\"grad\"<\/p>\n

The red end of the gradient is madder, while the yellow end is tansy stalks and leaves (I used the flowers for something else already).<\/p>\n

I achieve nice reds from madder by using rainwater. Some of my early attempts with madder gave only dull salmon shades because I used tap water, so now I always use rain.<\/p>\n

It’s well known that madder contains two types dye molecules, red and yellow ones, and that the yellow is released when you increase the heat above 65C. So I always heat the dye bath to 62C (or “roastbeef” on my meat thermometer) and then wrap the entire pot in a blanket. That keeps it warm until the next day, and it saves a lot of energy.<\/p>\n

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FACTS – MADDER <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

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Water Rain <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yarn 100% alpaca, 110 m \/ 50 g<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yarn:Dyestuff ratio 1:1<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Conclusion Rainwater and heating to less than 62C gives reproducible good results<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For the yellow end of my gradient, I used tansy that I picked at the roadside on walks close to my house last summer. As expected, the stalks and leaves gave a cold yellow – the flowers give a warm yellow.<\/p>\n

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FACTS – TANSY STALKS AND LEAVES <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

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Water Tap <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yarn 100% alpaca, 110 m \/ 50 g<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yarn:Dyestuff ratio 1:2 dry<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Conclusion Cold yellow, supposedly a good light and wash fast one<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Possible Improvements Leaves are difficult to remove from yarn – this is a dyestuff that could benefit from straining before yarn is added<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

And that’s it. The oranges in the middle of the gradient are madder exhaust baths, the last one overdyed with tansy yellow to make the transition smooth.<\/p>\n

The next part of the daydream consists of a Bohus-style hat knit with this color gradient. I’m doodling away on paper right now to get it right before I start knitting. To be continued!<\/p>\n

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I love color gradients! They somehow make the colors pop in a different way! I kept imagining a warm gradient, from red to yellow. Sometimes such daydreams stay just that, but with this, I have come incredibly close to what I imagined: The red end of the gradient is madder, while the yellow end is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[641,552],"tags":[573,562,579,564,565,581,575],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39875"}],"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=39875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midgaardshave.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}