Those who have been around here since forever ago might remember when I tried to dye roving.  It was thin and frail, and I wanted to hold it safely in place during dyeing.

So I used pantyhose.   Inside this casing is about 30 feet of carefully lapped and folded pencil roving, laid on a silk scarf and gently encouraged into a stocking leg:

And these are some of the results I got.  You can see the roving is thin; even as I was handling it, it wanted to pull apart.

Not as deeply saturated as I would have liked, but it was what it was, for better or worse.

But that was 5 or 6 years ago.

There is coming a box of other fibers — a whole assortment of different things, which I will get to dye up when it arrives.

Which means between now and the weekend I need to go hit up the local Family Dollar and buy up a bunch of pantyhose.    Based on what I’ve heard the coming inventory to be, I will need 10-12 pair, maybe more, so that each bundle of fluff gets its own pouch.   I suppose each leg will hold 3 unique bundles, but we’ll see.

I won’t use the silk scarves this time, since I want to have a full view of where the dye goes.

And, of course, there will be a follow-up collection of pictures when I have fibers to show and sell.

In the meantime, let’s all praise panty hose for holding fibers together.

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