Kilims: The Colors Continue

A great red - Barn Red Dark - an Oriental Background color from Prisms #1 (66 Spots and 35 Oriental Backgrounds), a dye book by the Dye Divas Claire deRoos and Nancy MacLennan. It is rich and luxurious. Look at the depth of color. A exquisite color for use in Kilims. 

Kilims: Need a Little Poison???

 

Check out this fabulous color!! It is Prochem Avocado. I used 1/4 tsp of Avocado over 1/2 yard of Dorr natural. It was processed in a Presto Pot in only enough water to cover the wool, with little to NO stirring. It is a scrumptious color to add a little bit of poison. Click on the photo to see the wonderful variation in hue and value in the same piece of wool. Give it a try ...you might just like it!!!

Kilims: Another Great Wool Color

 

This is Clay, a Prochem dye. This piece was dyed with 1/4 tsp of Clay over 1/2 yard of Dorr natural. It is processed in the Presto Pot with only enough water to barely cover the wool and little to NO stirring. I use Citric Acid as my mordant. It is delicious color, very versatile and has amazing depth.

Luscious Wool Colors Continues

 

Here is another great color of wool. It is called Stencil Brown. It is a color from the dye book Dying For Color by Susan Quicksall (deqslq@aol.com). This is a really great color with good value play and is great for kilims.

Lovely Jade Wandering Wool

This piece is called Jade. It is another of Wiarton Wanda's Wandering wool formulas. You can find the formula in Rug Hooking Magazine March/April/May 2004. It is extremely versatile and so lovely in Kilims. Try it you'll like it!

Did you know that you can click on the photos to see them larger?????

Another Great Kilim Color

Here is the scrumptious Red Rock Canyon. It is a formula developed by Sharon Townsend. The formula is available in her dye book "SPNEA'S Historic Colors of America". It is a yummy mixture of brick, caramel and evergreen - all Prochem dyes.
This piece is from a 1/2 yard  of Dorr natural that was dyed in a Presto pot with only enough water to cover the wool and NOT stirred. It produces a wonderful mottled red with lights, darks and mediums too!

More Lovely Wool Colors

 

Here is another wandering color. I call it Blush. This one is so much fun.  Lots of variation of value make it very versatile.

Yummy Candy is the name of this interesting piece of wool. It is another wandering color. Again the variation in this piece allow for many applications, including Kilims.

Another Kilim Color

This one is called Camel Dung. Yeah, you read correctly. It is a float method of dying. One color is floated onto the wool at a time while the wool sits in a large pot of salted water. Mordant is added only once. The second and third colors are floated on when the previous color is all absorbed. This fabulous formula comes from Anne Boissinot. It is delicious when it is hooked up.

More Great kilim Colors

Bea Brock, www.hillcountry-rugworks.com recently wrote an article in the February/March ATHA newsletter www.atharugs.com "Dying Primer". Bea gave a formula for this wonderful blue-green. Bea suggested taking a 1/4 cup of the dye solution and pre-dying or tinting the wool piece ( in this case a 1/2 yard) and then take the remaining 3/4 cup and dying the half yard piece without any stirring in a pot with only enough water to barely cover the wool that is crowded in a pot. The above photo shows the result of this method. This piece would work wonderfully in a kilim. It has really interesting mottled variations in the values going from light to medium to dark all in the same piece.

Kilim Colors Continue

This is Bryce Canyon. A dye formula from Prisms #3 - Color In Motion by Dye Divas - Claire deRoos and Nancy MacLennan. It is one of the ABRASH colors.

Midnight Stroll

Designed and Hooked by Jocelyn Guindon

(the dessert floor is hooked with Bryce Canyon)

What is Abrash?

Abrash is a color variation or stripe of a slightly different hue across the body of a carpet, the result of a slight color difference in the dye lots used.

This is Golden Glow. Another dye formula from the Prisms #3 dye book. It is also dyed with the ABRASH technique. Notice the dark and light and medium values in the same piece of wool. Hooking this piece of wool will produce the ABRASH look in your rug. This technique will aid the rughooker in replicating the look of a flatwoven Kilim with the variations in color.

Lucious Wool for Kilims Continues

Here is another great color to use in Kilim rugs. This is Mocha Chino, a Prochem dye, use 1/4 tsp. over 1/2 yard Dorr natural. It was dyed in a Presto Pot in a dye solution only deep enough to just barely cover the wool. After the initial stir, the wool was only stirred once after the Citric Acid was added. The effect is a wonderful warm brown with tones of gold. Really hard to describe, but really a lovely color.

More Lucious Wool for Kilims

 

Another of Wanda's wandering colors - Moroccan Sand. This one is as delicious can be with lovely soft mediums and dull darks. It works really well in Kilim rugs. Just like the other neutral wandering wools, these really do make your other colors sing!

The formula  for Moroccan Sand was published in Wanda's dye column  "Colors to Dye For" in Rug Hooking Magazine, March/April/May 2004.
To learn more about the Wandering method visit Wanda's blog at: http://wandaworksinwiarton.blogspot.com/

First in a Series of Lucious Dyed Wool For Kilims

This first one is Worry Stone. One of my favorite colors to dye using the float or wandering method. Each time I dye it I love it more. It really is a chameleon color - in that it changes depending what color you put it next to. Simply lovely. It works really well in Kilim rugs. This is one of Wanda's Wandering colors that was published in her dye column  "Colors to Dye For" in Rug Hooking Magazine, March/April/May 2004.
To learn more about the Wandering method visit Wanda's blog at: http://wandaworksinwiarton.blogspot.com/

Happy Valentines

Go Ahead Do It !

1st Annual International Punch Needle Rug Hooking Day!

1st Annual International Punch Needle Rug Hooking Day!

 Erzuli

Designed and Hooked by Yanick Duchesne 

In the words of the artist: " Erzuli, voodoo god of love, is often represented in wrought iron on the front of homes to protect them. The central motif of the pillow is inspired from a traditional Haitian drawing. 

I added some decorative folkloric curves and hearts."

For more info on this first time Punch Needle Rug Hooking Day check out Amy Oxford's website - here: http://www.amyoxford.com/

More Hooked Kilim Rugs

Tribal kilim

Hooked By Anne Boissinot

Design by J McGown Flynn for Charco, The House of Price

Grand Sivas

Hooked by Martha Beals

Designed by J McGown Flynn, for Charco, The House of Price

 

Kilim Sivas Pillow

Hooked by Norma Batastini

Designed by J McGown Flynn, for Charco, The House of Price

Kilim Sivas 

Hooked by Norma Batastini

Designed by J McGown Flynn, for Charco, The House of Price

 

Sivas Pillow

Hooked by ??????

Designed by J McGown Flynn, for Charco, The House of Price