The craft of hand-made rugs . are passed through the clothes-wringer. Make a slip noose at one end of therope, so the hanks of thread and pieces of ma-terial may be slipped through it and held whiledipped in the vat. Take the hanks of thread in-tended for the dark green and wet them. Putthem through the clothes-wringer so that themoisture may be evened up. Then slip themin the noose and dip them in the vat let-ting them stay there for five minutes. Nextdraw the pulley, and drain them for a few min-utes before they are hung out of doors tooxidize. When well oxidized they can be dipped againinto
The craft of hand-made rugs . are passed through the clothes-wringer. Make a slip noose at one end of therope, so the hanks of thread and pieces of ma-terial may be slipped through it and held whiledipped in the vat. Take the hanks of thread in-tended for the dark green and wet them. Putthem through the clothes-wringer so that themoisture may be evened up. Then slip themin the noose and dip them in the vat let-ting them stay there for five minutes. Nextdraw the pulley, and drain them for a few min-utes before they are hung out of doors tooxidize. When well oxidized they can be dipped againinto the vat, wrung out and hung out process if repeated three times will makethe color deep enough when the vat is fresh andstrong. If it is not a fresh vat you will have torepeat the operation of dipping until the desiredcolor is reached. The depth of tone in indigo dyeing is alwaysmade by overlaying tone after tone of color onthe fabric. Take the hanks of thread, preparedby the reserve method for dyeing the mottled. AN OBLONG KNITTED RUG WITH BORDER OF BANDS OF BLACK INTERRUPTED BY BARS OF COLOR THE KNITTED RUG 77 green, and dip them in the vat in the same wayonly do not dye them as dark as the threadwhich is to be kept plain green. All threadmust be rinsed thoroughly, or until none of thedye runs off in the rinsing water. A thoroughrinsing is one of the most important processesin dyeing because it prevents what is mis-takenly called fading. Fading is actually dueto the action of light on dyestuffs. Loss ofcolor on fabrics which have never been properlyrinsed, is caused by the loosening of dye par-ticles not actually attached to the fiber. Theloose particles of dyestuff are taken off inrinsing or, as the professional dyer would sayin the milling of the fabric, and later lossof color, or fading is thus prevented. Whenthe action of water on dyed fabrics causes lossof color and the dyestuff runs bleeding isthe proper term to use. Technically speakingthere are only two te
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