Hi Sue, I noticed many years ago that different dyes affect wool very differently, though could not say what the effect might be for black. I made a large number of Icelandic Lopi wool jumpers, in different colours. For anyone who has never come across this wool - it is sheeps wool, but only lightly spun to produce a thick thread.
The wool came in various different degrees of dye. I was convinced that some of it had no, or little dye - but was in fact the result of spinning naturally coloured wools. These greys and beiges had the coarsest fibres of the wools - the fibres retaining some / most of their naturalness, and you could see that different wool fibres had different colours. The heaviest dyed colours lost the colour difference between the fibres to give a uniform colour, and the wool was also softer and smoother - the fibres having lost some of their properties. I used blue, cream, green and red - but the most distinctive was the red. The wool would fall apart with the least amount of stress. At the time, I likened it to knitting with cotton wool! Karen In Coventry -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.2 - Release Date: 21/01/2005 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
