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Mailing lists, newsgroups, and online forums: other online sources of information on hand dyeing
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- The Dye Forum is an all-purpose forum on this website right here. Any dyeing-related topic is welcome, especially including links to pictures of your work. Discussions about tie-dyeing, batik, immersion dyeing, any dye-related topic you can think of. Please join us at the Dye Forum! (Check back frequently, because the forum does not send emails to alert you to replies.)
- iTie-dye Forum
- Tie-dye discussion forum, successor to the old Fiber Arts Forum. Includes detailed instructions on many different tie-dyeing folds and a multi-author Tie-dye Wiki.
- DyersLIST e-mail mailing list
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- To subscribe to the DyersLIST, send email to dyerslist-request@list.emich.edu
with the following request:
subscribe
- To post a message to the DyersList, send your message to
DyersLIST@list.emich.edu
- To unsubscribe from the DyersLIST, send email to
dyerslist-request@list.emich.edu with the following request:
unsubscribe
(DO NOT SEND unsubscribe requests to everyone on the DyersLIST!)
DyersLIST is a more technical hand-dyeing mailing list than most.
For more information, see Eastern
Michigan University's DyersLIST page. Additional
information and the searchable archive is
accessible at http://list.emich.edu/~dyers/.
Members: after doing your first search of the archive, you are asked for your login and password (the latter is sent to you every month); after logging in, you do not see the results of your search. Just use your web browser's "back" button to return to your search results; the cookie then allows you to see the search results.
- Jacquard Products Forums
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The Jacquard Products Forum is a company-run forum that anyone can join, for asking questions about and discussing Jacquard Products such as Jacquard Procion MX dye, Jacquard Acid dyes, Dye-Na-Flow fabric paint, Pearl-Ex mica powder, and their many other products.
- Complex Cloth
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Complex Cloth is for the fiber artist who specializes in the design and
execution of original cloth, based on the processes and techniques in Jane
Dunnewold's book, Complex Cloth from Fibre Studio Press.
What is appropriate for discussion?
Surface design, including dyeing, resists, bleaching, image transfer,
silkscreening, batik, tritik, fabric painting, and related topics. . .
Embellishment with beads, texture, buttons, closures. Influences of other
cultures on our fabrics and designs. Custom techniques, weaving, quilting,
and other fiber manipulations applied to cloth are fair game here. This
list is for people who want to learn and "push the envelope" of what's been
done into the next generation. Also welcome are notices of relevant
exhibits, publications and competitions.
To subscribe to the complexcloth mailing list, see Yahoo's complexcloth main page.
- Ravelry.com
- Ravelry is a site for knitters and crocheters. There is always some discussion about dyeing in the forums at Ravelry.
- Facebook: All About Hand Dyeing
- All About Hand Dyeing is the Facebook page corresponding to this site, used for sending updates about this web site. Operated by Paula Burch.
- Facebook: Addicted to TIE DYEING
- Addicted to TIE DYEING is a Facebook group which is a great place to look at many wonderful examples of tie-dyeing, posted by the tie-dyers as they make them. Very active, with over 2000 members at the time this is being written.
- Natural Surfaces
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A surface design group for those using or wanting to use natural dyes. Topics include shibori, discharge dyeing, screen printing, and painting, for flat surfaces. Surfaces would include fabrics such as silk, cotton, wool, paper, leather and more.
Group site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Natural_Surfaces/
Subscribe address: Natural_Surfaces-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
- Natural Dyes List
- This is a list for the discussion of natural dyes -- materials and techniques.
Group site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NaturalDyes/
Subscribe address: NaturalDyes-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
- Natural Surfaces
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A surface design group for those using or wanting to use natural dyes. Topics include shibori, discharge dyeing, screen printing, and painting, for flat surfaces. Surfaces would include fabrics such as silk, cotton, wool, paper, leather and more.
Group site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Natural_Surfaces/
Subscribe address: Natural_Surfaces-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Art2Wear, Wearable Art Plus, and other mailing lists can
be subscribed to under Wearable Art at Quiltropolis,
which also maintains archives of the mailing lists. You must join the
list before you can view the Art2Wear
archive.
- From the charter: "Art2Wear is for the intermediate to advanced
fiber artist who specializes in designs and executions of original
clothing.[...] A2W is *not* a sewing list. [...] What is appropriate
for discussion? Things such as patterns [...], Surface design,
including dyeing, resists, bleaching, image transfer, silkscreening,
batik, tritik, fabric painting. . . Embellishment with beads,
texture, buttons, closures. Influences of other cultures on our
fabrics and designs. Custom or couture construction
techniques. Weaving, quilting, spinning, knitting and other fiber
manipulations applied to clothing are fair game here. This list is
for people who want to learn and "push the envelope" of what's been
done into the next generation."
Silk Painting mailing list
- "This is a place created to allow people interested in silk painting to exchange information on technique, suppliers, and share their experiences." It is a very nice and supportive group.
To subscribe, see the Silkpainting Yahoo Groups page.
BATIK-L e-mail mailing list
BATIK-L is a moderated discussion list devoted to batik
painting, batik and tie dye processes. Batik procedures consists of:
1) preparing and desiging the fabric; 2) melting wax; 3) using the
dyes, overdying, crackling; 4) removing wax and fixing color.
All subjects related to batik, batik painting, designs,dyes,
processes etc are considered to be on topic.
To subscribe, send email to
batik-l-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
or see the BATIK-L Yahoo Groups page.
Dye Happy mailing list
Dye Happy is a moderated Yahoo Groups mailing list. "This on-topic list is for people of all skill levels from beginner to expert, from textile dyers and painters to fiber and yarn dyers. We welcome conversation about all methods of dyeing including Kool Aid, EE, cake coloring, acid dyes, natural dyes, fiber reactive dyes or any other form of coloring you can think of. "
Dyer's Sales List
"Buy, sell or trade any items relating to dyeing or surface design, the "raw materials" used by professional and advanced amateur dyers, including dyes of all kinds (except food colorings) as well as equipment and studio related accessories. PFD (Prepared for Dyeing) Fabrics, Yarns, and Fibers that are NOT Dyed but are ready for dyeing may also be sold here."
MXDyers mailing list
The MXDyers list is a moderated Yahoo Groups mailing list to which membership can be gained only by invitation from its moderator; it has been mentioned on the DyersLIST mailing list.
Tie-dyed.com mailing list
Formerly associated with the now-defunct company Tie-dyed.com, the Tie-dyed.com mailing list on Yahoo Groups is mostly inactive, and plagued by spammers.
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