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/

Sunshine Makes Me Happy - Hooked Rug

 

As most of you know by now I love the light, and sun light is one of my favorites. It feeds my soul. So, when I chose to hook this Rooster in the sunlight, I was excited. This pattern is designed by Marja Walker, carried by Primco - The House Of Price. http://www.rughook.com/
I started this rug in a class at McGown teacher's workshop. This rug was a great opportunity to use lots of texture, that was the actual exercise of doing this piece. Therefore, I used very little regular flannel weight wool. I overdyed lots of textures and had fun working with these interesting wools.
I couldn't help myself when I gave him a cocky expression. I have never met a Rooster without attitude, and this one has lots of it!
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