Ehkki ma ei pidanud 25. detsembril esitatud värvimisplaanist sugugi kinni, jätan selle plaani seal postituses siiski muutmata -- ehk on ta mulle kunagi hiljem toetuspunktiks.

Mis ma siis tegelikult tegin:

Jupiti juurtest värvi välja hautades tekkis värvivett rohkem, kui mu värvimispott oleks mahutanud. Seega panin potti ainult osa värviveest ja sinna esimesse vette tolle valge "ilusa" lõnga (8/2) ja roosa vihi, mille olin saanud varasemast košenilliga värvimisest. Riputasin ta üle puupulga suuremat osa pidi vette ja muutsin värvimise ajal mitu korda asendit, nii et väike osa jäi roosaks, nagu oli, osa vihist oli kogu aeg värvileemes ja osa oli mõnda aega. Muide, üks jupp sellest vihist oli värvivees ainult alguses, vist napilt mõni minut -- parasjagu nii palju, et märjaks saada! Edasi rippus see osa samuti pulga peal, leemest väljas, ja värv näis seal soojas lihtsalt kinnistuvat.



Kuumutasin mitu korda vee 60-70 kraadini, lastes vahepeal jahtuda. Vesi läks lõpuks päris heledaks, sedamööda kuidas lõng värvi külge võttis! Siiski oli ka too endine valge viht heledam, kui oleksin tahtnud, seega korjasin endise roosa vihi veest välja, lisasin värvitõmmist ja hautasin edasi.


Krappi oli üldse 250 g

"Ilus" lõng (8/2), 240 g, sai 3 värvitõmmise portsu siis, kui oli potis koos umbes 100 g roosa lõngaga (s.t roosat oli kokku 150 g, aga osa sellest oli ju veest väljas), ja lisaks n värvitõmmise portsu, ühes potis nüüd juba koos järgmise värvimata vihiga. Need kaks vihti jäid pärast mõnda kuumutamist 3-4 päevaks katlasse lihtsalt ligunema, kus ma neid aeg-ajalt liigutasin.

Niisiis ei saa ma selle värvimise juures üldse rääkida esimesest, teisest või kolmandast värviveest. Muudkui aga hautan ühes potis juurtest uut tõmmist ja teises imevad lõngavihid veest värvi endasse.

Vahepeal hakkisin juuri peenemaks. Foto on vilets, aga ehk saab aru, et mustaks tõmbunud väliskihiga juuretükid on keskosas puha punased.

Selle värvimise juures olen kasutanud ainult karedat kraanivett.

Lõpetan selle postituse: kõik on alles pooleli, "ilus" lõng on loodetavasti oma viimases värvivees, kaks vihti on omaette soojas värvivees, hall lõng on vist neli päeva külmas lahjas värvivees ligunenud... Rohkem pole ka teavet pakkuvaid pilte, aga loodan hiljem kogu tulemust näidata.

In English:
Although I did not stick to the plans described on Dec 25th I guess I may leave them intact in that post, maybe I'll be able to make use of them later. What really happened:

When extracting dye from the roots, ever in new small amounts of water, the amount of dye water turned out to be more than my dyeing pot could contain. And later on there was even much more of dye extract.

The first dyeing: the "nice" white yarn (8/2) and the pink yarn, dyed with cochineal earlier, were put into one pot. The pink yarn was hung over a wood stick, so that part of the hank could remain pink as it was; as to other parts of it, I changed the position of the hank during the dyeing process while part of it was in water all the time.

I heated the water up to 60C and then turned the gas off and let it cool for a while. Repeated it several times, while occasionally the temperature raised as high as 70C, too.
Then I took the pink, now with more colours, hank out. By the way, a section of it had been in the dye water only at the beginning, for a few minutes, just enough to get immersed! I then heaved that section onto the stick as well, and there, influenced by warm steam, the colour got attached to the yarn. (See photo 1.)

By that time the water in the pot had become quite light, as most of the pigments had attached themselves to the yarns. I added more water with extracted dye into the pot, for the other hank was lighter than I had expected. Also, I put another natural white hank into the same bath. These two hanks got more portions of dye extract later on, also they were left staying in cool dyewater for about three days. Photo 2 was taken at some time between baths.

After some extractings I chopped the roots finer to get more dye out of them. On the poor photo 3 you may see that the moist, just chopped roots show intensive red colour inside.

This time, I've been using only hard tap water.
The amount of madder roots: 250 g.

Right now the "nice" yarn is getting its last bath -- or so I think; two originally white yarns are kept in warm dye water; gray yarn has been soaking in cool and weak dilution for four days, I guess... It all will take much more time than I expected -- and so what? There's no hurry, and the fastness of colour may only improve by letting it attach slowly. As I do not have more informative pictures I may finish this post just as well, hoping to demonstrate the whole outcome later.