![]() ![]() She will be bringing fleeces, roving, farm yarn, commercial yarn and her lovely knitted items.įaulhaber of Jessica’s Creations has loved the fiber arts for as longĪs she can remember. Sadly, due to health reasons, Ingrid Greene is dispersing her herd and this will be her last year at the festival. Alpacas at Wolf Run Ridge will be back this year after being missed last year.That are loved and repurposed, for this is what we strive for.įinding treasures in sustainable earth friendly treasures that ![]() You might find as we are always adding "needful things" ![]() If you’re a spinner, knitter or felter, I'm sure you will find I have a love for dyeing and finding the colors that touch the soul. Processed fibers and include some mill spun yarn that is done at a local We love the whole process of raising our fiberĬritters and take great pride in our products. A conveyor belt slowly carries the yarn through the machine to remove all moisture.Located in southwest Ohio with Kentucky roots. The radio frequency dryer uses radiation, sort of like a microwave. It’s a bit like the spin cycle in a washing machine.įinally, a radio-frequency dryer dries the yarn. As a result, the yarn must undergo several steps after it has been dyed to remove all the moisture.įirst, the yarn goes into the extractor, which works like a large centrifuge. Wool absorbs a huge amount of water (it can absorb 30% of its weight without even feeling wet!). Then a number of rinse cycles ensure the yarn is color fast. Each color requires a certain pH and temperature while the dye water circulates. The process is similar to a washing machine. Once we place the yarn in the dye vat, the machine runs though computer-controlled cycles. To learn more about our eco-friendly dyewater system, see our posts on How We Recycle our Dye Water and New Innovations in Dye Water Recycling. Luckily we are able to reuse 70-80% of our dye water thanks to our reverse osmosis filtration system. Not only do we use a huge amount of water, the water needs to be very pure and highly filtered. We have a small sample machine that dyes tiny skeins of yarn for new color development and color testing.Įach batch of yarn requires between 40 and 400 gallons of water to dye. We formulate all of our own dye recipes here at the mill, and make our dyes with mixtures of primary and secondary colors in powdered form. The heathered gray base is a blend of off-white with gray or brown created during the spinning process. While we dye most of our colors over natural, off-white wool, we use a heathered gray base for some of our other colors. We hang reeled skeins on a rack inside a special caddy, which we then wheel in to the dye vat. It allows the dye to circulate throughout each strand of yarn. We usually dye the most popular colors-such as black, brown, and neutrals-in the largest quantities, with new or less popular colors dyed in the smaller vats.īefore spun yarn can be dyed, it needs to be put into a reeled skein. Typically, a batch (or “dye lot”) is from 30 to 200 pounds of yarn. Our dye department consists of 4 large dye vats, each with the capacity to dye a different size batch. If you’ve had the opportunity to tour our mill, you’ve seen that we have divided our machinery into 3 main categories: spinning, dyeing, and packaging. To learn about how our multi-colored yarns are dyed, see this previous blog post: A Sneak Peak Inside our Yarn Hand-Painting Process. This month, we’re sharing a glimpse into the process of how we dye our yarns - specifically, our solid-colored yarns we dye in batches in our large dye vats. ![]()
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