Life can be very exciting!
I am absolutely thrilled to tell you that as well as my Post Graduate Study at Leeds I will also be working as Project Manager for Keracol (an SME based at Leeds University) under the Business of Fashion, Textiles and Technology Partnership (BFTT) R & D programme, led by the…
Dreams and reality?
I have some fabulous news to tell you! From Monday 1st November I will be a full time student again, studying at the University of Leeds. The Clothworkers Buildings and entrance at Leeds Uni - appropriate place to study, no? I have dreamed of researching the chemistry of dyeing and…
A few changes coming
I've been very lax about writing posts here, sorry, that doesn't mean that nothing is happening! So here's an update! - We intend to start running online courses "live" these are currently in the planning stage, but will be listed here soon. There are so many " introduction to" "beginner"…
Turkey Red (Part 1)
The term Turkey Red can be quite confusing - it is often used to describe a colour (particularly in modern parlance) - but it is actually an historical method for producing a very fast red colour on cotton cloth using the dyestuff madder. As a collector of historical dye books…
Something a bit different!
For one of the most complex dye processes there is, the first stage is to dunk your cotton (and it should be cotton - either yarn or cloth) into a bath made up of sheep dung dispersed in water. As I no longer own my own sheep I was lucky…