How is hand-painted yarn made?
This question probably has an obvious answer, but how is hand-painted yarn made? I know that you can hand-paint roving and then spin that into a variegated, hand-painted yarn, but what about hand-painting already spun yarn?
Thanks, everyone.
While the second respondent has most of it right, there’s a bit more to it than that. For most yarns with long color runs, the skein or hank that the yarn is wound into is possibly several yards long, which requires a warping mechanism. If the color runs are to be evenly spaced, the yarn has to be tied to prevent or minimize bleeding into the adjacent colors and each color is applied separately, and possibly steamed into the yarn, again to minimize bleeding. For yarn that knits into a pattern, this gets even more complicated, requiring calculation of the amount of yarn needed to knit each color in the sequence and careful tying and dyeing of each sequence color after winding into a hank that encompasses one or two complete repeats of the sequence. Ask your library to bring in the book *Yarns To Dye For* for a very good and complete explanation of this process.
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