Discharged

                     

Several times customers have asked Yarns Plus whether or not our black tencel would discharge.  A while back we gave some samples of black tencel to one of our customers to give it a try.  Yesterday's mail brought lovely samples of her experiments with discharging the tencel with beautiful results.  The black discharged to a lovely golden beige, similar to our 'straw', but a little more on the yellow side.  Ellen Good of Ompah, ON used thiourea dioxide and Pro dye activator when experimenting.  I love the results and believe that one could design a stunning fabric using the woven shibori technique and the black tencel discharged when gathered up tightly. A great surface design book that devotes a detailed chapter to discharge dyeing is "The Surface Designer's Handbook" by Holly Brackman. It is published by Interweave Press  www.interweave.com