• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
Serendipity and the Art of the Quilt

Serendipity and the Art of the Quilt

Creating with Brenda Gael Smith

  • WEBSITE
  • About
    • Biography
    • Resume
  • Shop
  • Gallery
    • Serendipity Gallery
    • Contemporary Textile Art
    • Monthly Art Project 2019
    • Weekly Art Project
  • Workshops & Programs
    • Workshop Booking Form
    • Overview
    • Workshops Brochure
    • 3 Hour Zoom Workshops
    • Schedule
    • Lectures & Programs
    • Abstraction from Reality
    • Bound to Please
    • Creating with Felt
    • Circular Explorations
    • Improvisation Plus
    • Lines of Beauty
    • Logs & Ladders
    • The Modern X
    • Shibori Serendipity
    • Stacks of Improvisation
    • Strata Various
  • Resources
    • Copyright Resources
    • Tutorials
    • Melody Quiltalong
  • News/Events
    • Calendar
    • Newsletter Sign Up
  • Blog
  • Contact

Triad Dyeing

30 May 2007 Filed Under: Technique:Dyeing, Tutorials

I have been asked to expand upon my earlier post about triad dyeing. I don’t think this is a technical dyeing term but it does describe the triangular arrangement that arises when you take three initial colours (not necessarily primaries) and apply the following dye ratios:
8:1:1
5:4:1     4:1:5
1:8:1     1:5:4     1:1:8

I use procion dyes and this approach can be applied to both low-immersion and bucket-dyeing techniques. Simply arrange six dyeing receptacles in a triangle and measure out the dye solutions like so:
Triad Diagram
The ‘corner’ lots will be predominantly red, blue and yellow respectively but you end up with some wonderful cross over colours in between. Here are some triad-dyed fabrics. Remarkably, the set of fabrics on the right started out with a bright red, blue and yellow. Ah the serendipity!
   
For more detailed step-by-step dyeing tutorials and heaps of other information, see Fabric Dyeing 101. One day I would love to do a workshop with Carol Soderland just as Diane is doing right now!

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Sarah says

    31 May 2007 at 6:00 AM

    thanks for the formula – I’ve been itching to do some dying, and our weather is just about right for it!

Primary Sidebar

Blog Posts Straight to Your In Box


Melody 33

Blog Archives

Serendipity Studio Newsletter

Categories

Recent Posts

  • Abstraction in Action 2022 Student Gallery
  • Bower of Beauty ImproVines Demo
  • ImproVines Design: Bower of Beauty
  • Quiltfest Virtual Schoolhouse #2: 11-14 May
  • Great Studio Destash 2022: Come, look, buy!

Footer

Contact

Brenda Gael Smith
brenda@serendipitypatchwork.com.au

PO Box 4033, Copacabana
NSW 2251 Australia

Tel: +61 412530190

Serendipity Studio News

Sign up for periodic updates from my studio - new artwork, workshops, exhibitions and other news

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • YouTube

New on Instagram

If you are travelling in Northland Aotearoa (New Z If you are travelling in Northland Aotearoa (New Zealand), check out the new @hundertwasserartcentre on the waterfront in Whangarei. A no-so-little ceramic whimsy to brighten your day. #hundertwasser #whangarei #aotearoa
Happiness is when a quilt, that has been sitting i Happiness is when a quilt, that has been sitting in storage for way too long, lands in the right place for a much anticipated little  one. And just happens to coordinate with the decor too.
#serendipity #familylove @7acreranch @thisroyalheart

Copyright © 2003–2022 All Rights Reserved · Brenda Gael Smith