Many
of my blankets have no dye at all. When I do dye, I use mostly un-natural, commercial
dye because it is so colorfast and will not run and does not fade as quickly
as most natural dyes. If one of your little buddies spills her grape juice on
your blanket, you can rinse it out in the bathtub. No running code 3 to the
dry cleaners. I am growing indigo plants, and I will be doing some indigo blue
and natural color blankets.
I
have two Louet wheels, the kind that have the plywood wheel with the hole for
balance.
Only
the best, two-ply, commercially made wool warp. This stuff is so strong you
can’t believe it. I have spun my own warp, but it is nowhere near as strong.
If
you look at the end selvage of one of my pieces, you will see a row of twining.
The warp ends are tucked back into the weft so that they pinch the twist of
the twining at each twist. The warps are then pulled through the face of the
weft, twisted around each other, and tucked back in so that they are going in
the opposite direction from where they started. This takes hours to do, but
you could use one of my blankets under your saddle every day for the rest of
your life and you would come unraveled before my blanket did.
