Well, the answer is: the synthetic spider silk does take dye.
It takes dye very well, pretty much identically to how the bombyx does. It has a slightly more tan shade, but not as dark as tussah silk.
Archive for year: 2005
Because I have really cool fiber friends
One of my silk friends in England sent me some spidrex artificial spider silk. She’s been working with it, seeing how it behaves in various textile applications.
Of course, my first instinct was to see how it would degum… and this is how it did.
I haven’t ever posted any of the memes, quizzes, etc., in my journal. But this one has brought out so many interesting facts about my friends list folks, and has given me a lot of food for thought… ten things:
Organzine
Organzine is a twisted and plied filament silk. This is about a 40denier strand, that has been plied up four strands to the single, and then doubled with another four-strand single. That makes it a 40d4x2 organzine.
cut, because not everybody wants to see six pictures of thread.
Jenny Gets the Blues
I’m working on some blue dyed reeled silk for a trade project. This is part of the results:
Ribbon – finished!
The ribbon is finished!
Photos and info here
Reeled Silk!
I’ve been reeling, throwing, dyeing, and weaving – the result:
click for more images, and descriptions