Purple and complementary colours

Thursday was a public holiday here and it was miserable weather – grey and wet in the afternoon. So it was no sacrifice to get my buckets out in the cellar and do some dyeing. I haven’t done any for quite some time now.

I wanted to dye a large piece of red-purple. When I started my C&G course one of the first activities was to dye a 12 colour wheel. My red purple then was just the colour I was looking for. Luckily I had made a note of the particular dyes I used in the posting at the time. I have four different reds so choosing the right one would have been a bit hit and miss. I was pleased with the result again this time – it turned out pretty much as expected.

At the same time I decided to try to achieve some neurons like the one in this piece. I knew that would be more of a long shot. It is not without reason that Ann Johnston calls it Color by Accident. I didn’t quite get what I was looking for, but the results are still good. I mixed yellow with red, red and green, and yellow with purple. This time I used lemon yellow, magenta, Blau MX-G for the green and Medium blue for the purple for these 2 colour dye baths.

My favourite mix is still purple and yellow. You get such interesting colours popping up in the fabric. I’ve not yet tried blue and orange. I was using the colours that are in the piece I’m working on right now. I was pleased with the green and red one too – I almost got black in some parts. It’s always a surprise as to how the fabrics turn out.

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