Dyeing with wine

acchiarini wrote

on Nov 16, 2009 9:47 AM

Hi,

My name is Ana. I'm from Brazil and I've been teaching myself how to spin using the internet. I have a spinning wheel made right here where I live, Florianopolis at the south of my country (it's not so warm in here). Later I'll probably ask for advice with my spinning, but that's not the case today.

My husband has a small production of wine (what they call "colonial wine" here*). It's very raw and not too sophisticated, but his production is all organic. He made some wine last year and he's not very pleased with the results and wants to get rid of it. I was thinking if I can use it to dye some wool and cotton I have. Has anyone tryed something similar? Which kind of mordant would you use it?

I would appreciate a lot any help! And my apologies for my English...

Ana

Denise Jackson wrote

on Jan 15, 2010 10:15 AM

I don't know about the mordants. I've been learning from an online Yahoo! group dyehappy. You can join them and post the question there. The answers come within a day. I've learned so much from reading the daily posts.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dyehappy/

acchiarini wrote

on Feb 9, 2010 11:41 AM

Thanks, Denise!

I'll take a look there.