Maggy's Fiber Art Display

So for anyone who likes the historic side of fiber art, this is a really cool set of experiments done by a dyer who wanted to ONLY use what would have been available in medieval Europe. When she refers to "mordants", she's referring to the fact that if you use a natural material to dye something, you need to add something else (mordants) which will adhere the color to the wool permanently. Otherwise it'll wash out. I think it's absolutely incredible just how vivid and bright some of the colors came out, especially the hot pink! Perhaps this will have some sway over what we imagine our characters to be wearing, or future house colors? Just a thought. But I would encourage everyone who has an interest in medieval fantasy to really think about the finer details of the time period. Linen is around, but it's usually undyed because it's a plant fiber, and those take a different process to dye. Wool honestly what most people would be wearing, but would it be colored? Or would it be whatever color came from the sheep plus the wood ash or whatever mordant was used? Would they bother paying more for dyed fabric, which would take days of rigorous monitoring and adjusting and keeping the mordant heated for processing? Food for thought. http://www.jennydean.co.uk/anglo-saxon-dye-experiments-part-1/
 
Had to share this because WHAT THE ACTUAL HECKING HECK!! So before I moved in, some family friend was using our attic for storage. Eventually he decided 'screw it I don't want the stuff anymore, you guys can have it" so it became Zion's mom's problem. And when she moved out, it became ours (she offered to come help us clean it soon, but still it's all junk in our attic).

GUISE. I went up there to look for something and found THIS.
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Dusty and covered in cobwebs. YALL. This is an Ashford Traveler's Spinning Wheel. In short, the new versions of it sell for about 800 DOLLARS. I gave up on all dreams of owning a spinning wheel because even the lowest costing ones will go for about 300 buckeroos. AND I FOUND THIS IN MY OWN ATTIC. It's mine and it wants to live with me forever. I'm like beside myself, I've been looking up tutorials on handspinning for the past couple days now.

If that isn't enough to explain why I'm so excited, just LOOK at the kind of yarn you can handspin with a wheel like this!!

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This is HUGE. I mean it. I'm going to have bad karma for the next ten years because whatever good karma I had, it ALL got spent on this!
 
Somewhat related to my precious post about finding a spinning wheel! I ordered a bit of roving, dyed it, and spun it. the colors didn't come out as I pictured because it was my first time dyeing grey yarn as opposed to the neutral off white color I'm used to, but it's not too bad for a first try at handspinning!
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