Watercolour Dye Technique

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1 General Concept

This is the blog that I promised detailing my experiments in what I call "watercolor style" aniline dying. My sincere hope is that it will encour...

2 New Lessons Learned from "Facets"

The biggest and most dramatic new lesson I learned from the "Facets" project's dyeing was the huge dimensional movement that you can get when you...

3 Tips and Tricks I've Learned

Time to wind up this little blog about my venture into hand dyeing marquetry. Most of what's been covered here so far is also covered in the blog...

4 Toscana, Disassemble, Dye, Re-assemble

The general method of applying the dye is with an artist's brush as seen in the first segment of this blog so I won't go into great detail here. ...

5 Toscana, My most intricate dye job to date

I have done a few dye projects since the last post to this blog but they have been small and not very noteworthy. I did however learn from them a...

6 Toscana, cutting and assembly

As this blog is supposed to be about hand dyeing and not marquetry, I'll try to cover the cutting and assembly as quickly as I can. The method he...

7 Flip, Flop, and Press ... protecting the dye

. Warning: boring content. ............ This is technical junk about a sequence of events that will interest people who want to try this technique...