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Mailing lists, newsgroups, and online forums: other online sources of information on hand dyeing

The Dye Forum
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!
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 (the wiki is temporarily closed due to an attack by spammers).
DyersLIST e-mail mailing list
  1. To subscribe to the DyersLIST, send email to dyerslist-request@list.emich.edu with the following request:
    subscribe
  2. To post a message to the DyersList, send your message to DyersLIST@list.emich.edu
  3. 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
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. (Unfortunately it is heavily targetted by spammers, although the moderators remove the pornographic spam as quickly as they can.) Click here to check for new posts.
Tie-dyed.com mailing list
The Tie-dyed.com mailing list still exists, even after the demise of the company Tie-dyed.com; it could be used as a backup in case the forums go down. We should replace it with a group that requires moderator approval to join, in order to weed out the spammers. (Click here to join the Tie-Dyed mailing list.)
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
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

DyeHard Runoff
"This group is for learning to dye fabric with procion MX dyes. We have created this group to see if you are interested in how we dye fabric and the swaps that we run. For those of you who have never dyed fabric or have just dabbled in it, this would be a good place for you to start."

Group site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DyeHard_RunOff/
Subscribe address: DyeHard_RunOff-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Complex Cloth
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.

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."

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.

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