I'm going to post my last two tencel beige efforts to get some feedback.  I noticed some very slight unevenness in my Saturday beige results, made skeins with much looser ties and increased my liquor ratio from 40:1 to 50:1, and tried again yesterday.  Here are my results.

First the 10/2 tencel substrate chip, again:

Here are the Saturday chips:

Here are the chips from yesterday.  Sorry for the really bad wrapping job; I was so tired last night when I was wrapping these.  I tried to get a photo that shows the color without so much light reflecting off the bad wrapping.

These are all unwashed, since I didn't see a difference previously between washed and unwashed, but I may need to try washed again.

Any other suggestions?  I need to try to get this so that I can move on.

Linda

 

Comments

Mon, 07/18/2011 - 17:25

dancingfish (not verified)

I think what you're seeing there, Anne, is mainly a difference in how I lit and exposed the photos.  The color is actually very similar between the two sessions, but if I'd shot the 2nd the same way I shot the 1st, the bad wrapping would have made it impossible to see if the color was even.  So I changed the exposure/lighting to try to show the color more than the light reflecting off the bad wraps.  

In the first, you can see that there are areas that are slightly more "green" (e.g. not as much dye) and some that are slightly more "brown" (more dye), mainly on the middle and right chips.  

In the second set, I can't detect much variation, but I can't decide if I'm okay with it.  I think part of it is that I'm so weary of staring at beige.

Linda

 

Mon, 07/18/2011 - 23:05

Karren K. Brito

The tencel looks like it is working.  Great not to have to wash the skeins. Sorry about the beige but this kind of pale neutral is very sensitive to small changes; better see it now than later.  The pure colors are not nearly as sensitive so the problems might not show up until you are trying mixed colors.

Mon, 07/18/2011 - 23:22

dancingfish (not verified)

Any unevenness shows up very well, since there seems to be a shift as well, such as lighter areas showing up with a greenish or goldish cast, and darker areas showing up with a browner/redder cast.  It takes chips to show it too, as skeins that look fine are revealed as otherwise on the chip.  

The methods you are teaching us are good, Karren.  Exactly why we are here, so you can help guide us along!

Linda

 

Tue, 07/19/2011 - 01:00

Mary Rios (not verified)

Linda I totally feel your angst! Wednesday I rebuild my pure library...for the 4th time.!

all in the name of art and science

are you chipping the tencel to a sturdy cardboard? i haven't chipped tencel so I'm not sure how it behaves, but once Karren stated to make sure they are tight but not jumping up or down, or bunching or not tight enough because the light plays tricks on our eyes. If you can maybe put one next to the other a little tighter? just my thought.