Fox and Badger

Last October at two separate workshops I learnt about natural dyeing and needle-felting,  though I never put the two together until this spring. I had run out of undyed spun yarn for natural dyeing experiments, and so was using unspun undyed fibre instead. I didn’t know what I was going to do with all these small…

Saddening with Iron

It seems appropriate on a driech day like today to post about ‘saddening’—using iron to darken and mute the colours of naturally-dyed wool. ‘To sadden’ really is the best verb for it. Because iron can damage fibres, it’s best to only use a very small amount in proportion to the fibres, such as 2% weight…