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Dyed yarn_0289
2 January 2011 20:40
Hand-painted yarn. I love the colors. These were among the first batches to come out of the mill; I really want to learn how to do this.
( Night moves )
( Night moves )
Our fiber consortium has almost a full month of fairs and exhibitions coming up where we'll be able to sell the fiber we've all sheared from our alpacas. The mill is on long hours trying to make enough products to sell at all of those venues. I've been helping out where I can, but I'm not trained on any of the machines; I mostly deal with cleaning crap (sometimes literally) out of the fiber during the different stages of processing. I brought my camera with me today and caught a few of the machines doing their thing.
ETA: I screwed up on the descriptions of what was going on with the machines. Corrected the information. Sorry!
( Bits and pieces )
There's a lot about the process that I don't know yet, although I'd like to learn. There are another four or five machines stuffed in there out of sight. Plus a big tumbler in another building. And hundreds of pounds of raw fiber stored in our garage. For a little mill, it's got a lot going on.
ETA: I screwed up on the descriptions of what was going on with the machines. Corrected the information. Sorry!
( Bits and pieces )
There's a lot about the process that I don't know yet, although I'd like to learn. There are another four or five machines stuffed in there out of sight. Plus a big tumbler in another building. And hundreds of pounds of raw fiber stored in our garage. For a little mill, it's got a lot going on.
