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From: "craig watson" <spacelodge@earthlink.net> Hi Kathleen and Bruce Yes Kathleen, you are right, I'm dyeing huge amounts of Churro yarns (1) now for weavers I'm working with and designing rugs with them. These weavers like to use special colors and wools, being great artists, and I am making up some good rug designs with them. These yarns I dyed (2) late last week and finished washing them over the weekend. The blues are indigo and the reds are dyed w aniline, cochineal and madder, all were mailed to Albert and Susie Jackson in Red Valley today. I gave them a whole lot of natural flavors of this 4-strand Churro when they visited up here a few days ago to plan this rug. The dye studio is getting a work out even during the Winter with no heat. Once the sun is out, and I turn on the Coleman camp stove in it to cook and dye wool, it heats up enough out there. This photo is at Daisy Ute's shed (3) over in Teec Nos Pos when I taught an indigo workshop for the weavers there. Here is a Yei (4) that Evelyn Poyer in Red Mesa has on the loom for us. These cornstalks will have all different indigo greens I've dyed. The background is a beautiful deep natural black Churro. I dyed the yellow outlining color for the cornstalks, etc. The collaboration in designing is absolutely wonderful. All these weavers give every weaving spontaneous creative touches once the weaving gets underway. |
